Michael Bonner
About
Michael Bonner was a Jewish scholar of Islamic studies. Born in 1952, he died in May 2019. He received his PhD in Near Eastern studies from Princeton in 1987. He was a professor of medieval Islamic history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he served as chair of the department of Near Eastern Studies from 2010 to 2019. In addition to his monographs, he published dozens of scholarly articles and translations.