Fred McGraw Donner was born on 1945 and is a scholar of Islam and Peter B Ritzma Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago.
13 Facts About Fred Donner
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Fred Donner has published several books about early Islamic history.
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Fred Donner then studied oriental philology for a year at the Friedrich-Alexander Universitat in Erlangen, Germany, before returning to Princeton for doctoral work.
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Fred Donner received his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton in 1975.
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Fred Donner served as chairman of his Department and as Director of the University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Fred Donner was President of Middle East Medievalists from 1992 until 1994 and served as editor of the journal Al-Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists from 1992 until 2011.
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Fred Donner was President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
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Fred Donner has been a member of MESA since 1975, served an earlier term on MESA's Board of Directors and was awarded MESA's Jere L Bacharach Service Award in 2008.
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Fred Donner has published a translation of a volume of the history of al-Tabari in 1993.
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In Narratives of Islamic Origins, Fred Donner argues for an early date for the Quranic text.
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Fred Donner responds in particular to the theory of late canonisation of the Qur'an proposed by John Wansbrough and Yehuda D Nevo.
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Fred Donner received a 1994 Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
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Fred Donner was appointed a life member of the Scientific Committee of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts in 2012.