The Reign of God Has Come”
Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16643286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen J Shoemaker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 514-558 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Arabica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0570-5398 • E-ISSN: 1570-0585 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15700585-12341312 |
| OpenAlex | W2021388023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 2 |
For much of the 20th century, scholarship on Muḥammad 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 political expansion in early Islam: if Muḥammad and his followers believed that the world would soon come to an end, why then did they seek to conquer and rule over so much of it? Nevertheless, there is no real contradiction between the urgent eschatology revealed by the Qurʾān and other early sources on the one hand, and the determination of Muḥammad and his followers to expand their religious policy and establish an empire on the other. To the contrary, the political eschatology of the Byzantine Christians during the sixth and early seventh centuries indicates that these two beliefs went hand in hand, offering important contemporary precedent for the imperial eschatology that seems to have fueled the rise of Islam
Ancient history · Byzantine architecture · Contradiction · Empire · Epistemology · Eschatology · Islam · Political science · Politics · Reign · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
Memories of Utopia
The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language
Jews as Producers and Consumers of History in the Medieval Islamicate World
The Roman Context of Early Islam
The Role and the Place of the Speeches in the Work of Theophylact Simocatta
Der Koran in seinem religions- und weltgeschichtlichen Kontext
Religion, war, and peace in premodern Islamicate polities and the Christian West
Theological progression in Muhammad’s preachings in Mecca and Medina
Where Do the Multi-Religious Origins of Islam Lie? A Topological Approach to a Wicked Problem
The Changing Landscapes of Cross-Faith Places and Practices
Muḥammad, Menaḥem, and the Paraclete
The Shi'is and the Qur'an
Talking about Islam's origins
| Citations per year | 1.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |