Fred M. Donner
American historian and scholar of early Islamic history, professor at the University of Chicago, author of influential works on the origins of Islam and early Islamic conquests (e.g., Muhammad and the Believers; The Early Islamic Conquests).
Books
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1. Muhammad And The Believers
At the Origins of Islam
This scholarly work reconstructs the emergence of early Islam as a broad “believers’” movement defined primarily by shared monotheistic convictions rather than by a fixed ethnic or legal identity; using early Muslim and non-Muslim sources, the author argues that the first community included diverse adherents and viewed itself as part of a wider Judeo-Christian-Islamic monotheistic covenant, and that only over time — through political consolidation, scriptural formation, and institutional development — did a distinct, exclusive Muslim identity and canonized tradition coalesce.
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