Gabriel Said Reynolds is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology and assistant professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame.[1] His scholarship focuses on World Religions and World Church, History of Christianity, Qur'anic Studies, Origins of Islam, and Muslim-Christian relations.[1][2]

Biography

Gabriel Said Reynolds obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Yale University.[1] In 2012-2013 he directed “The Qurʾān Seminar” alongside Mehdi Azaiez, a year-long collaborative project dedicated to encouraging dialogue among scholars of the Quran, the acts of which appeared as The Qurʾān Seminar Commentary.[1][3] In 2016-2017 he directed the research project Un Dieu de vengeance et de miséricorde: Sur la théologie coranique en relation avec les traditions juive et chrétienne at the Fondation Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes in France.[2] Reynolds currently serves as CEO of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA),[2] and is also a regular contributor to Notre Dame's World Religions and World Church podcast: Minding Scripture.[1]

In 2008 he was the editor for The Qur'an in its Historical Context; essays included his own introduction, "Qur'anic Studies and its Controversies".[4] In August 2015 the Times Literary Supplement published Variant Readings: The Birmingham Qur'an in The Context of Debate on Islamic Origins, a scholarly commentary of Reynolds about the discovery and analysis of the Birmingham Quran and its relations with other ancient Quranic manuscripts.[5] In 2018 he has overseen commentaries on such aspects of Islam as the Nephilim in The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary.[6] In 2020 he wrote Allah: God in the Qurʾān, a scholarly treatise on the conception of God in Islam and its distinguishing features in Islamic theology, with a comparison between the portrayals of the Abrahamic god in the Bible and the Quran, respectively.[7]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Gabriel Reynolds - Department of Theology". theology.nd.edu. University of Notre Dame. 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Gabriel Said REYNOLDS - Résidents". iea-nantes.fr (in French). Fondation Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes. 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. ^ Azaiez, Mehdi; Reynolds, Gabriel Said; Tesei, Tommaso; Zafer, Hamza M. (2016). The Qur'an Seminar Commentary: A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi:10.26530/oapen_626408. ISBN 9783110445909. S2CID 164817099. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  4. ^ Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2008). "Introduction: Qur'anic Studies and its Controversies". In Reynolds, Gabriel Said (ed.). The Qur'an in its Historical Context. London: Routledge. pp. 1–26. doi:10.4324/9780203939604. ISBN 978-0-415-42899-6. S2CID 160637821.
  5. ^ Reynolds, Gabriel Said (7 August 2015). "Variant Readings: The Birmingham Qur'an in The Context of Debate on Islamic Origins" (PDF). Times Literary Supplement: 14–15. Retrieved 17 January 2021 – via Academia.edu. "Among the manuscripts... discovered in 1972... of the Great Mosque of Sanaa in Yemen was a rare Qur'anic palimpsest – that is, a manuscript preserving an original Qur'an text that had been erased and written over with a new Qur'an text. This palimpsest has been analysed by... Gerd and Elisabeth Puin, by Asma Hilali of the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, and later by Behnam Sadeghi of Stanford University... What all of these scholars have discovered is remarkable: the earlier text of the Qur'an contains numerous variants to the standard consonantal text of the Qur'an."
  6. ^ Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2018). The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary. Translated by Qarai, Ali Quli. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18132-6. LCCN 2017952016. S2CID 211983625. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  7. ^ Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2020). Allah: God in the Qurʾān. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvxkn7q4. ISBN 978-0-300-24658-2. JSTOR j.ctvxkn7q4. LCCN 2019947014. S2CID 226129509. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

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