Gabriel Said Reynolds is an

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and

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, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of

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and Assistant Professor of

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and Theology at the

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. His scholarship focuses on

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and World Church,

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, Qur'anic Studies,

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, and Muslim-Christian relations.

Biography

Gabriel Said Reynolds obtained his

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. In 2012-2013 he directed “The Qurʾān Seminar” alongside Mehdi Azaiez, a year-long collaborative project dedicated to encouraging dialogue among scholars of the

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, the acts of which appeared as ''The Qurʾān Seminar Commentary''. In 2016-2017 he directed the

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''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

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. Reynolds currently serves as

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of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), and is also a regular contributor to Notre Dame's World Religions and World Church

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: ''Minding Scripture''. In 2008 he was the

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for ''The Qur'an in its Historical Context''; essays included his own introduction, "Qur'anic Studies and its Controversies". In August 2015 the

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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. In 2018 he has overseen commentaries on such aspects of Islam as the

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in ''The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary''. In 2020 he wrote ''Allah: God in the Qurʾān'', a scholarly treatise on the conception of God in Islam and its distinguishing features in

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, with a comparison between the portrayals of the

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in the

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and the Quran, respectively.

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References

External links

* https://theology.nd.edu/people/gabriel-reynolds/ * https://www.academia.edu/25775465 {{DEFAULTSORT:Reynolds, Gabriel Said 20th-century American theologians 21st-century American theologians American emigrants to France American historians of religion American Islamic studies scholars Christian and Islamic interfaith dialogue Historians of Christianity History of Quran scholars Living people Non-Muslim scholars of Islam People in interfaith dialogue University of Notre Dame faculty World Christianity scholars Yale Divinity School alumni Year of birth missing (living people)