Stephen J. Shoemaker is an American scholar, specialising in ancient and early medieval Christianity and early Islam. He serves as a

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of religious studies at the

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. His work has focused on early devotion to the

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and formative Islam and its relationship with Near Eastern Christianity. Shoemaker received his

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from Duke University in religious studies.

Bibliography

* ''The Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary’s Dormition and Assumption'' (Oxford University Press, 2002) * ''The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life and the Beginnings of Islam'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) * ''Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion'' (Yale University Press, 2016) * ''The Apocalypse of Empire: Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) * ''The Dormition and Assumption Apocrypha'' (Peeters Publishers, 2018) * ''A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes'' (University of California Press, 2021) * ''Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study'' (University of California Press, 2022)

References

External websites

Personal Website Stephen J. Shoemaker
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