Stephen J. Shoemaker

The making of Mecca

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Stephen J. Shoemaker

Stephen J. Shoemaker is professor at the University of Oregon, and a specialist in the history of Christianity and the beginnings of Islam. His most recent book is A Prophet Has Appeared: The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes. 

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