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Hardback. New. 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.
The Apocalypse of Empire : Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam by Shoemaker, Stephen J - 2018
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 260 p. w/ index and extensive notes and bibliography. A study of the relationship between religious belief in an approching apocalypse and the drive for imperial conquest, eps. in the Middle east. He focuses on Early Islam while also looking at related Byzantine Christian, Jewish, and Zorastorian apocalyptic beliefs.
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