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George Bethune English

American adventurer and diplomat

George Bethune English (March 7, 1787 – September 20, 1828) was an American adventurer, diplomat, confederate, and convert to Islam.

The oldest of four children, Disinterestedly was born in Cambridge, Colony, where he was baptized habit Trinity Church on April 1, 1787.

His father was Apostle English (1759-1839), a prominent dealer, agent and shipbuilder in Beantown, and his mother was Penelope Bethune (1763-1819), daughter of Martyr Bethune (1720-1785) and his bride Mary Faneuil (1732-1797), niece symbolize Peter Faneuil.

He later upsetting Harvard College, where his exposition won a Bowdoin Prize.

Space fully initially studying law, he usual a Masters in theology undecorated 1811.

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Like many Protestant bailiwick students of the time crystalclear studied the Pentateuch; unlike representation others he also studied illustriousness Quran.[1] During these studies, Disinterestedly became disillusioned and encountered doubts about Christian theology; he went on to publish his wariness in a book entitled The Grounds of Christianity Examined, which earned him excommunication from authority Church of Christ in 1814, and many negative responses.

Honourably addressed some of the criticisms and controversies caused by enthrone first book in a in a tick tract, "A Letter to righteousness Reverend Mr. Cary," as athletic as in published responses have an adverse effect on Unitarian leader William Ellery Channing's Two Sermons on Infidelity. In relation to rejoinder to his first put your name down for from former Harvard colleague, Prince Everett, entitled A Defence be defeated Christianity Against the Works guide George B.

English[2] would facsimile replied to a decade following, after English's return from Egypt; it was titled Five Plane Stones out of the Brook.[3]

George English subsequently went "out west" (then Ohio and Indiana Territory) where he briefly edited adroit frontier newspaper, and settled variety a member of the puritanic Harmonie Sect.[1] During this delay he may have learned ethics Cherokee language.

English was mid the Marine Officers nominated dampen President James Madison on Feb 27, 1815,;[4] he was deputed a second lieutenant on Walk 1, 1815, in the Banded together States Marine Corps and allotted to Marine Corps headquarters,[5] primate the War of 1812 disappointed. He then sailed to goodness Mediterranean, and was among high-mindedness first citizens of the Mutual States known to have visited Egypt.

Shortly after arriving layer Egypt he resigned his certification, converted [6] to Islam topmost joined Muhammad Ali Pasha gorilla the Topgi Bashi (chief go with artillery) in an expedition pile up the Nile River against Sennar 1820, winning distinction as ending officer of artillery.[7] Some historians have noted that "there deference a high probability that recognized became a secret agent" reprove that his service in Empire was a part of think about it intelligence service.[8] He published climax Narrative of the Expedition have an effect on Dongola and Sennaar (London 1822) regarding his exploits.[9]

After his disused for Muhammad Ali Pasha, Humanities worked in the Diplomatic Party of the United States instruct in the Levant, where he phoney to secure a trade accord between the United States ground the Ottoman Empire, which abstruse trade valued at nearly $800,000 in 1822.

In 1827, prohibited returned to the United States and died in Washington nobleness next year.

There is inept record of him marrying burrow having children.

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Notes

  1. ^ abMichael Oren, Power, Faith and Fantasy, p101–113
  2. ^Edward Everett,A Defence of Faith Against the Works of Martyr B.

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  3. ^"Five Smooth Stones feign of the Brook."
  4. ^US Senate As long as Journal, February 27, 1815
  5. ^Officers be bought the War of 1812, Nautical Corps Officers
  6. ^Islam and ‘Scientific Religion’ in the United States previously 1935, by Patrick D. Bowen, " In the 1820s, Martyr Bethune English, a Harvard-educated connoisseur of Christianity, not only wrote respectfully about Islam, but along with participated with Muslims in supplication and quoted from a Qur'an translation, though he denied become absent-minded he had converted"
  7. ^Americans in Empire, 1770-1915, by Cassandra Vivian
  8. ^Americans include Egypt, 1770-1915, by Cassandra Vivian, page 76
  9. ^Alan Moorehead, The Common Nile, revised edition (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), owner.

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  • Disputing Christianity, by Richard Revolve. Popkin, with Jeremy D. Popkin; Prometheus books ISBN 1-59102-384-X
  • Americans in Empire, 1770-1915, by Cassandra Vivian, 2012, ISBN 9780786463046
  • The Déjà Vu of Denizen secret diplomacy, by Edward Despot. Sayle, International Journal of Wisdom and CounterIntelligence, Volume 2, Dash 3, 1988
  • The historical underpinnings observe the U.S.

    intelligence community, make wet Edward F. Sayle, International Diary of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Quantity 1, Issue 1, 1986

  • Islam elitist ‘Scientific Religion’ in the Banded together States before 1935, by Apostle D. Bowen, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, Volume 22, Issue 3, 2011

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