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588 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2003)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0588 and id is 1 raw text is: Preface The unhappy prejudices of the Christian world against the professors of Mahomet's creed, which had been instilled into my mind, led me to fear a thousand dangers where none existed.... When the seaman approaches that part of Asia inhabited by the Turks, he may with safety burn all alarm, and rest satisfied, that although he is not near a Christian country, still he will find among the inhabitants, all the vir- tues possessed by Christians, with but few of their vices. -Samuel Elliot (1819, as quoted in Finnie 1967, 21) For here [on the Tripoli beachhead,] bribery, treachery, rapine, murder, and all the hedious [sic] offspring of accursed tyranny, have often drenched the streets in blood, and dealt, to the enslaved inhabitants, famine, dungeons, ruin and destruction. On yonder noddling tower, once waved the banners of the all-conquering Rome, when these fruitful regions were styled the Eden of that empire, now Gothic ruins, and barbarous inhabitants curse the half-tilled soil. -William Ray (1808, as quoted in Baepler 1999, 36) While these two statements reflect the expe- riences of their respective authors, they also manifest a dichotomous American experience with Islam: positive impressions are confined to the exceptional interludes of optimists who earn the wrath and ridicule of those who do not approve of such views,' while disparaging state- ments remain alive, reactivated with each new foreign venture. The history of American encounters with the Muslim states is almost as old as the American independence. The first decade of the nine- teenth century, for example, witnessed Ameri- can involvement with the North African states over the question of American captives, leading to what is known in U.S. history as the Barbary DOI: 10.1177/0002716203255390 ANNALS, AAPSS, 588, July 2003 6

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