Professor of Medieval Islamic History
Department of Near Eastern Studies
The University of Michigan
4147 Thayer Academic Building
Ann Arbor, MI  48104-1608
(734) 647-0093,  fax (734) 936-2679

Department of History
1029 Tisch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
(734) 764-6305, FAX (734) 634-4881
mbonner@umich.edu

EDUCATION
1981-87  Princeton University, M.A. in Near Eastern Studies, 1984; Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies, 1987.

1978-80  University of California, Berkeley. Enrolled in program in Comparative Literature.

1975-76  Harvard University, A.M. in Comparative Literature, 1976.

1970-74  Harvard University, A.B. magna cum laude in Classics and History, 1974.

EMPLOYMENT
1997-2000, 2001-03  Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan.
    
1995 - Associate Professor of Medieval Islamic History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Michigan.

1989-95  Assistant Professor of Medieval Islamic History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, the University of Michigan.

1988  Lecturer in History, Princeton University.

1986 and 1988  Preceptor, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Islam, Princeton University.

1987-88  Visiting Lecturer in Arabic Language and Islamic History, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University.

1986-87  Lecturer in History and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University.

1984-86  Drill Instructor, Arabic language, Princeton University.

1976-78  Promotion Manager, Holden-Day Publishing Co., San Francisco, California.

FELL0WSHIPS AND AWARDS
2001 (May)  Professeur Invité, Institut d'Études de l'Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

2000-2001 Helmut S. Stern Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

2000  National Endowment for the Humanities conference grant for international symposium workshop on "Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Societies," May 2000.

1999  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for teachers, on "The Arab World and the West." Co-director with A. Shammas and R. Stockton.

1991  Fellowship, the Annenberg Institute, Philadelphia. Declined with regret.

1990  Research grant, Fulbright Islamic Civilization Research Program. Worked on manuscripts at libraries in Istanbul.

1986-87  Dissertation grant, the American Numismatic Society.

1985-86  H.W. Dodds Fellowship, Princeton University.

1985  Summer Fellowship, the American Numismatic Society, New York.

1984  Summer Fellowship, Center for Arabic Study Abroad, Cairo.

1981-85  National Resource Fellowship (FLAS), Princeton University.

PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Return of Wealth: A Study of Poverty and the Poor in the Islamic Near East, 600-1100. In preparation.

Les Origines du jihâd. Paris: Les Éditions du Téraèdre, forthcoming [2004].

Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria: Lessons for the Western Mediterranean and Beyond. Co-edited with Mark Tessler and Megan Reif. A special issue of Journal of North African Studies, and a volume published by Frank Cass (London). Forthcoming [2004].

Arab-Byzantine Relations. Vol. 8 of The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, under general editorship of Lawrence I. Conrad. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate/Variorum, forthcoming [2004].

Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts. Co-edited with Amy Singer and Mine Ener. Forthcoming with SUNY Press, 2003.

Aristocratic Violence and Holy War: Studies on the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine Frontier. New Haven: American Oriental Society Monograph Series, 1996.

"Islam and Europe: Long-range Perspectives on Conflict and Exchange." Kalamazoo College Center for Western European Studies Working Paper Series, forthcoming [2004].

"Poverty in the Qur'an." Forthcoming in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, [2004].

"Poverty and Charity in the Rise of Islam." Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts (see above under Books), (2003), 13-30.

Article "Märtyrer [Martyrs]: VII. Islam." Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, fourth edition (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck), (2002), 5:871-872.

"The Kitab al-Kasb Attributed to al-Shaybani: Poverty, Surplus and the Circulation of Wealth." Journal of the American Oriental Society 121.3 (2001): 410-27.

Article "Byzantines: Historical Context." Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, 1: (2001) 265-266.

Article "Umar b. al-Khattab." Encyclopaedia of Islam, second edition, 10: (2000) 818-21.

"Algerian Voices, European Reactions: Examining Conflicts in Discourse, Information and Analysis." Journal of the International Institute 7.1 (September 1999): 16-17.

"Definitions of Poverty and the Rise of the Muslim Urban Poor." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society series 3,6,3 (1996): 335-44.

"The Naming of the Frontier: `Awasim, Thughur, and the Arab Geographers." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 57.1 (1994): 17-24.

"Some Observations Concerning the Early Development of Jihad on the Arab-Byzantine Frontier." Studia Islamica 75 (1992): 5-31.

"Ja`c´il and Holy War in Early Islam." Der Islam 68.1 (1991): 45- 64.

"The Mint of Harunabad and al-Haruniyya, 168-171 H." American Journal of Numismatics, Second Series 1 (1989): 171-93.

"Al-Khalfa al-Mardi: The Accession of Harun al-Rashid." Journal of the American Oriental Society 108.1 (1988): 79-91.

Translations
Fanny Colonna, "Que sont mes amis devenus?" To appear as "What Has Become of My Friends?" in Bonner, Reif, and Tessler, eds., Islam, Democracy and the State in Algeria: Lessons for the Western Mediterranean and Beyond (see above, Books). [2004].

Hippolyte Delehaye, "Passio sanctorum sexaginta martyrum," Analecta Bollandiana 28 (1904): 289-307 [French and Latin]. To appear as "The Death of the Sixty Holy Martyrs," in M. Bonner, ed., Arab-Byzantine Relations. Vol. 8 of The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, (see above under Books). Aldershot, UK: Ashgate/Variorum, forthcoming [2004].

Julius Wellhausen, "Die Kämpfe der Araber mit den Römäern in der Zeit der Umaijaden." Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Phil.-Hist. Klasse, Heft 4 (1901): 1-34. To appear as "The Arab-Byzantine Wars in the Umayyad Era," in M. Bonner, ed., Arab-Byzantine Relations (see previous), 2004.

Edmund Beck, "Die dogmatische religiöse Einstellung des Grammatikers Yahya b. Ziyad al-Farra'," Le Muséon 64 (1951): 187-202. Translated as "The Dogmatic Religious Stance of the Grammarian Yahya ibn Ziyad al-Farra'," in A. Rippin, ed., The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation. The Formation of the Classical Islamic World, vol. 25, 137-158, 1999.

Manfred Götz, "Maturidi und sein Kitab Ta'wilat al-Qur'an," Der Islam 41 (1965): 27-70. Translated as "Maturidi and his Kitab Ta'wilat al-Qur'an," in A. Rippin, ed., The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation (see previous), 181-214, 1999.

Ján Pauliny, "Einige Bemerkungen zu den Werken Qisas al-Anbiya' in der arabischen Literatur," Graecolatina et Orientalia 1 (Bratislava, 1969): 111-123. Translated as "Some Remarks on the Qisas al-Anabiya' Works in Arabic Literature," in A. Rippin, ed., The Qur'an: Formative Interpretation (see previous), 313-326, 1999.

Heinz Halm, Das Reich des Mahdi. Der Aufstieg der Fatimiden (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1991). Translated as The Empire of the Mahdi: The Rise of the Fatimids. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996.

Albrecht Noth, Quellenkritische Studien zu Themen, Formen und Tendenzen frühislamischer Geschichtsüberlieferung (Bonn: Selbst verlag der Universität, 1973). Translated for revised edition, in collaboration with L. Conrad, entitled The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1994.

Reviews
Jan Retsö, The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to the Umayyads. London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003. Forthcoming in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. [2004].

Chase Robinson, Islamic Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Forthcoming in Journal of Religious History. [2004].

Paul M. Cobb, White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750-880. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. Forthcoming in Journal of the American Oriental Society. [2003].

Matthew S. Gordon, The Breaking of a Thousand Swords: A History of the Turkish Military of Samarra (A.H. 200-275/815-889 C.E.) Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. Forthcoming in American Historical Review.

Michael Brett, The Rise of the Fatimids: The World of the Mediterranean and the Middle East in the Fourth Century of the Hijra, Tenth Century C.E. Leiden, Boston and Köln: Brill, 2001. Forthcoming in Journal of African History. [2003].

Martin Hinds, Studies in Early Islamic History, edited by J. Bacharach, L.I. Conrad, P. Crone. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1996. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3:2:2 (2001): 268-270.

G.R. Hawting, The idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. MESA Bulletin 35 (2001): 65-66.

Tarif Khalidi, Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period. Cambridge University Press, 1994. American Historical Review (December 1997): 1537.

Michael Chamberlain, Knowledge and Social Practice in Medieval Damascus, 1190-1350. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, 3 (1997): 447-48.

Averil Cameron, ed., The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. III. States, Resources and Armies. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1995. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 3, 1 (1998): 93-95.

Elizabeth Savage, A Gateway to Hell, a Gateway to Paradise: The North African Response to the Arab Conquest. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1997. Journal of the American Oriental Society 120.2 (2000): 270-71.

Martin Hinds, Studies in Early Islamic History, edited by J. Bacharach, L.I. Conrad, P. Crone. Princeton: Darwin Press, 1996. Forthcoming in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

G.R. Hawting, The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam. Cambridge University Press, 1999. Forthcoming in MESA Bulletin.

S.F. `Abd al-Fattah, al-Baladhuri wa-minhajuhu fi Kitab futuh al-buldan. Forthcoming in al-`usur al-wusta.

M. Shatzmiller, Labour in the Medieval Islamic World. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994. Forthcoming in Journal of the American Oriental Society.

M. Hinds, An Early Islamic Family from Oman: al-`Awtabi's Account of the Muhallabids. Journal of Semitic Studies Monograph no. 17, Manchester, 1991. Journal of Semitic Studies 39.2 (1994): 386-88.

R.S. Humphreys, tr. and ed., The History of al-Tabari . Vol. XV, The Crisis of the Early Caliphate. I.K.A. Howard, tr. and ed., Vol. XIX, The Caliphate of Yazid b. Mu`awiyah. M. Fishbein, tr. and ed., Vol. XXI, The Victory of the Marwanids. M. Hinds, tr. and ed., Vol. XXIII, The Zenith of the Marwanid House. Forthcoming in Religious Studies Review.

D.S. Powers, Studies in Qur'an and Hadith. The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. International Journal of Middle East Studies 26.2 (1994): 343-45.

C. Décobert, Le mendiant et le combattant. L'institution de l'is lam. Paris: Seuil, 1991. Bibliotheca orientalis 50.3-4 (1993): 500-04.

G. Cannon, The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones. Sir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Eighteenth-Century Studies 26.1 (1992): 189-91.

G.R. Hawting, tr. and ed., The History of al-Tabari . Vol. XX, The Collapse of Sufyanid Authority and the Coming of the Marwanids. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 55 (1992): 323-4..

P. Lunde and C. Stone, tr., al-Mas`udi, The Meadows of Gold. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1989. Journal of the American Oriental Society 111.4 (1991), 786-87.

C.E. Bosworth, tr. and ed., The History of al-Tabari. Vol. XXX, The `Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium. SUNY Press, 1989. MESA Bulletin 25 (1991): 68-69.

W.M. Watt, Muhammad's Mecca: History in the Quran. Edinburgh University Press, 1988. P. Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Princeton University Press, 1987. International Journal of Middle East Studies 22.3 (1990): 337-39.

G.R. Hawting, The First Dynasty of Islam. London: Croom Helm, and Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. Journal of the American Oriental Society 109.3 (1989): 448-49.

C.E. Bosworth, tr. and ed., The History of al-Tabari. Vol. XXXII, The Reunification of the `Abbasid Caliphate. SUNY Press, 1987. The Middle East Journal 43.2 (1989): 311-13.

LANGUAGES
Arabic, French, Italian, German. Reading knowledge of Greek, Latin, Persian and Russian; some Hebrew.

MEMBERSHIPS
American Oriental Society
Middle East Studies Association
Middle East Medievalists

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