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Donner, Fred Mcgraw was born on September 30, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of George Robert and Myrtilla Herrick (McGraw) Donner.
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In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuries, Fred Donner argues for a necessary distinction between the causes of the conquests, the causes of their success, and the causes of the subsequent Arab migrations to the Fertile Crescent. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Donner, Fred Mcgraw was born on September 30, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of George Robert and Myrtilla Herrick (McGraw) Donner.
In 1968 he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Oriental Studies at Princeton University, having interrupted his studies from 1966 to 1967 to pursue the study of Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS) in the village of Shimlan, Lebanon. He then studied oriental philology for a year (1970-1971) at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany, before returning to Princeton for doctoral work. Donner received his Doctor of Philosophy in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton in 1975.
From 1968 to 1970 he served with the United States Army, seeing duty with United States Army Security Agency in Herzogenaurach, Germany in 1969-1970. He taught Middle Eastern history in the History Department at Yale University from 1975-1982 before taking his position at the University of Chicago in 1982 (The Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations). He served as chairman of his Department (1997–2002) and as Director of the University"s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (2009–present).
His book The Early Islamic Conquests (1981) has been described as "magisterial" and "a major contribution to the understanding of early Islamic history" (International Journal of Middle East Studies).
lieutenant is used as a set text for several university courses. He has also published a translation of a volume of the history of al-Tabari.
9–53. In his Narratives of Islamic Origins, he argues for an early date for the Qur"an text.
He responds in particular to the theory of late canonization of the Qur"an proposed by John Wansbrough and Yehuda Doctorate. Nevo. The book attempts to explain how concerns for legitimation in the developing Islamic community shaped the themes that are the focus of Islamic historical writing, particularly the themes of prophecy, community, hegemony, and leadership.
In 2007, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to examine Arabic papyri from the first Islamic century (seventh century Civil Engineering) at collections in Paris, Vienna, Oxford, and Heidelberg. Donner was President of Middle East Medievalists from 1992 until 1994 and served as editor of the journal First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of Middle East Medievalists from 1992 until 2011.
Donner is currently the President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
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Donner is a long-term member of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (Mining Enforcement And Safety Administration), The American Oriental Society, and Middle East Medievalists.
Married Elvira Venables, December 14, 1982.