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