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Allen James Fromherz

Allen Fromherz (PhD) is an expert in Middle East, Mediterranean and Gulf History. From 2007-2008 he was a Professor at Qatar University. From 2008-Present he has been a Professor of Mediterranean and Middle East History at Georgia State University. Since 2015 Dr. Fromherz has served as President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), a part of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).

Early Life

Fromherz was born on May 10, 1980 in Dallas, Oregon. He and wrote an undergraduate honors thesis on Ibn Khaldun under the direction of Professor Gene Garthwaite at Dartmouth College, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2002. From 2002-2003 Fromherz was a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco. From 2003-2006 Fromherz studied for his PhD under the supervision of Hugh Kennedy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His doctoral dissertation is entitled The Rise of the Almohads: Islam, Identity and Belief in North Africa.

Academic Career

In 2007 Fromherz joined the faculty of Qatar University as an assistant professor of Middle East history. In 2008 he joined the history department at Georgia State University in Atlanta Georgia as a Professor of Medieval Mediterranean and Middle East History where he currently teaches. In addition to works on medieval North Africa and a biography of Ibn Khaldun, he published the first full-length history of Modern Qatar, Qatar, A Modern History.

Honors

In 2015 Dr. Fromherz became President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS). In 2018 he was elected for a second term as President of AIMS and is a board member of the Council of Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). In 2016 he was named as a senior humanities fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD).

Travel

Dr. Fromherz is a renowned tour guide for educational group tours including Smithsonian Journeys.

Bibliography

2010, The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire, (IB Tauris, London) 2010, Ibn Khaldun, Life and Times, (Edinburgh University Press) 2012, Qatar: A Modern History, (Georgetown University Press) 2016, The Near West, Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age, (Edinburgh University Press) 2018, Editor, The Gulf in World History, Arabia at the Global Crossroads, (Edinburgh University Press)