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Fred McGraw Donner (born 1945) is a scholar of Islam and Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago. [1] [2] He has published several books about early Islamic history.
He taught Islamic and modern Middle Eastern history at Yale University (1975-1982) and, since 1982, has been at the University of Chicago (NELC and The Oriental Institute), where he teaches courses on early and medieval Islamic history, Islamic law, and Arabic palaeography and epigraphy.
But “they seldom talked about the religious motivation,” says Islamic scholar Fred M. Donner. A professor of Near Eastern history at the Oriental Institute and head of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Donner instead believes Islam’s origins shared features with the genesis of Christianity.
In Muhammad and the Believers, the eminent historian Fred Donner offers a lucid and original vision of how Islam first evolved. He argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the “Believers’ movement” begun by the prophet Muhammad—a movement of religious reform emphasizing strict monotheism and righteous behavior in ...
In Muhammad and the Believers, the eminent historian Fred Donner offers a lucid and original vision of how Islam first evolved. He argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the "Believers' movement" begun by the prophet Muhammad—a movement of religious reform emphasizing strict monotheism and righteous behavior in conformity ...
Fred Donner, University of Chicago: 2664 Followers, 85 Research papers. Research interests: Islamic Origins, Qur'an, and Early Islamic History.
In honor of Fred M. Donner's long and distinguished career as one of the foremost interpreters of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen original studies by his students.
Fred M. Donner Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; The Oriental Institute Professor of Near Eastern History, The University of Chicago The Oriental Institute and Department of
This fragment of papyrus dating from the seventh century gives clues to the early community that became Islam, according to historian Fred Donner, a fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center.
Fred M. Donner is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History in The Oriental Institute and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1982 to 2020.
