Books by Stephen J. Shoemaker

"Stephen Shoemaker leaves no significant aspect of the debate over the Qur'an's origin and evolution unexamined. His book is a milestone in Qur'anic studies. It is, simply put, the most comprehensive and convincing examination of this subject available. Everyone in the field will have to read it." --Fred M. Donner, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History, University of Chicago

Stephen J. Shoemaker argues that earliest Islam was a movement driven by urgent eschatological belief that focused on the conquest, or liberation, of the biblical Holy Land and situates this belief within a broader cultural context of apocalyptic anticipation that includes early Byzantine Christianity, Judaism, and Sasanian Zoroastrianism.

Stephen J. Shoemaker investigates contradictory traditions about the end of Muhammad's life in the Islamic and non-Islamic sources of the seventh and eighth centuries.