About Allen J. Fromherz Books
Allen J. Fromherz is Professor of History at Georgia State University, and previously Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History at Qatar University. He received his PhD from the University of St Andrews in Scotland after graduating from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship to Morocco. In 2010 he was awarded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung fellowship to pursue research on the history of nationalism in the Middle East. In 2016 he was a senior fellow at the New York University Abu Dhabi Humanities Institute. He is also the author of The Almohads: The Rise of an Islamic Empire (I.B.Tauris, 2012) and Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times (2010) and The Near West: Medieval North Africa, Latin Europe and the Mediterranean in the Second Axial Age (2016).
