Fred Donner

Fred McGraw Donner is an Islamic scholar and the Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago. [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/faculty_fs.html NELC Department Faculty list] at University of Chicago]

His book "The Early Islamic Conquests" (1981) has been described as "magisterial" [ [http://serials.infomotions.com/bmmr/bmmr-9410-elton-byzantium.txt Elton H in "Bryn Mawr Medieval Review"] (accessed 2 October 2007)] and "a major contribution to the understanding of early Islamic history" ("International Journal of Middle East Studies"); [ [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7438(198311)15%3A4%3C577%3ATEIC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P Review of "The Early Islamic Conquests"] in the International Journal of Middle East Studies] it is used as a set text for several university courses. [eg refer [http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/V/David.R.Vishanoff-1/Encounters/Spread.html University of Oklahoma] (accessed 2 October 2007)] He has also published a translation of a volume of the history of al-Tabari.

In 2007, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. [ [http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/070412/guggenheim.shtml University of Chicago article on Guggenheim Fellowship awards] ]

Donner is the editor of the journal "Al-Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists". [ [http://www.middleeastmedievalists.org/uldefn.html Al-Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists] ]

Bibliography

* "The Early Islamic Conquests" (Princeton University Press; 1981) ISBN 0-691-05327-8 ( [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/donner.html Internet History Sourcebooks Project: e-text (chapter VI)] )
* "The History of al-Tabari (Vol. 10): The Conquest of Arabia" (State University of New York Press; 1993) ISBN 0-7914-1072-2 (translation)
* "Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing" (Darwin Press; 1998) ISBN 0-87850-127-4

ee also

*Islamic scholars

External links

* [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/nelc/facultypages/donner/ Entry] with the University of Chicago
* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/donner.html Fred Donner. The Early Islamic Conquests] , Chapter VI. Conclusions, Princeton Univ Press, 1981

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