Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945-

LC control no.	n 81017542
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	Chicago (Ill.)
Address	f-donner@uchicago.edu
Birth date	1945-09-30
Field of activity	Islamic countries--History Islamic countries--Historiography
Affiliation	Maʻhad al-Sharq al-Awsaṭ lil-Dirāsāt al-ʻArabīyah (Lebanon) United States. Army Security Agency Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Yale University University of Chicago Princeton University
Profession or occupation	College teachers
Found in	His The early Islamic conquests, c1981: t.p. (Fred McGraw Donner) CIP data sheet (b. 9/30/45) Whose Middle Ages?, 2019: page 302 (Fred M. Donner) Fordham Press web site, February 25, 2020: (Fred M. Donner is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 1975 and has researched and written mainly on early Islamic history, Islamic historiography, and the Qur'an.) <https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823285570/whose-middle-ages/> University of Chicago web site, March 2, 2020: (Fred M. Donner, f-donner@uchicago.edu ; Fred M. Donner attended Princeton University (BA Oriental Studies, 1968; PhD Near Eastern Studies, 1975), with additional study at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in Shimlan, Lebanon (1966-67, for Arabic language), and the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany (1970-71; Orientalische Philologie). He did military service from 1968-1970, and was assigned for duty in Germany with the US Army Security Agency. 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.) <https://nelc.uchicago.edu/faculty/donner>
Associated language	eng