"The Reign of God Has Come": Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam.

For much of the 20th century, scholarship on Muhammad and the beginnings of Islam has shown a reluctance to acknowledge the importance of imminent eschatology in earliest Islam. One of the main reasons for this resistance to eschatology would appear to be the undeniable importance of conquest and po...

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Published in:	Arabica Vol. 61; no. 5; pp. 514 - 559
Main Author:	Shoemaker, Stephen J.
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2014
Subjects:	Eschatology 20th century Islam Qur'an Christians Tābi'ūn Byzantine civilization
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