Rate My Professor Fred Donner

Donner’s seminal publications include The Early Islamic Conquests (Princeton University Press, 1981), Narratives of Islamic Origins: The Beginnings of Islamic Historical Writing (Darwin Press, 1998), and Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam (Harvard University Press, 2010). He has edited volumes such as The Expansion of the Early Islamic State (Ashgate/Variorum, 2008), The Articulation of Early Islamic State Structures (Ashgate/Variorum, 2012), and Christians and Others in the Umayyad State (with Antoine Borrut, Oriental Institute, 2016). His honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1978-1988), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2007-2008), Stanford Humanities Center Marta Sutton Weeks Fellowship (2014-2015), American Council of Learned Societies (2018-2019), and American Academy in Berlin (Spring 2019). He received the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1992), Jere L. Bacharach Service Award (2008), and lifetime achievement recognition from Middle East Medievalists (2016). Donner served as President of Middle East Medievalists (1990-1992) and Middle East Studies Association of North America (2012), and sits on the Board of the International Qur’anic Studies Association. He is a life member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters "Beit el-Hikma" (2012).