• Fred McGraw Donner (born 1945) is a scholar of Islam and Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Near Eastern History at the University of Chicago. He has published...
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  • invested with command among you" (Sura 4, verses 58–62). According to Fred M. Donner, the title's adoption marked a step in the centralization of the nascent...
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    2021. Lecker 1994, p. 343. Lecker 1994, p. 344. Donner 1993, pp. 182–183. Donner 1993, pp. 185–186. Donner 1993, p. 188. Blankinship 2009. A.I. Akram (1...
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    by Martin Ritt, who encouraged Donner to become a director instead. Ritt hired Donner as his assistant. Later, Donner was on the staff of Desilu, where...
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    al-Nabawiyya. 3rd edition. 4 vols. (Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 2010), 1:60-66; Fred M. Donner, Muhammad and The Believers: At the Origins of Islam (Cambridge: Belknap...
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  • Retrieved 29 August 2019. Donner, "Quran in Recent Scholarship", 2008: p.30 Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword, 2012: p.45 Donner, "Quran in Recent Scholarship"...
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  • fusion of various Near Eastern civilisations under Arabic leadership. Fred M. Donner viewed the book as a "wake-up call": despite initial repudiation, it...
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    quotes Quran, Surah 18 Al-Kahf verse 21. The inscription was studied by Fred Donner and published in 1984. Following a frequently found formula, the inscription...
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  • of intellectual history, including reification and logical traps." Fred M. Donner, reviewing Hagarism in 2006, viewed the book as a "wake-up call": despite...
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     259. Donner 2014, pp. 133–134. Sharon 2018, pp. 100–101, 108–109. Donner 2014, p. 154. Madelung 1997, pp. 60–61. Madelung 1997, p. 61. Donner 2014, p...
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