Gabriel Said Reynolds is an
American
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academic
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and
historian of religion
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, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of
Theology
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and Assistant Professor of
Islamic Studies
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and Theology at the
University of Notre Dame
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.
His scholarship focuses on
World Religions
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and
World Church,
History of Christianity
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,
Qur'anic Studies,
Origins of Islam
Origin(s) or The Origin may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Comics and manga
* ''Origin'' (comics), a Wolverine comic book mini-series published by Marvel Comics in 2002
* ''The Origin'' (Buffy comic), a 1999 ''Buffy the Vampire Sl ...
, and
Muslim-Christian relations.
Biography
Gabriel Said Reynolds obtained his
Ph.D.
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in
Islamic Studies
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at
Yale University
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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
Quran
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, the acts of which appeared as ''The Qurʾān Seminar Commentary''.
In 2016-2017 he directed the
research project
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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
France
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.
Reynolds currently serves as
CEO
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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
podcast
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: ''Minding Scripture''.
In 2008 he was the
editor
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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
Times Literary Supplement
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History
The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication ...
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
Nephilim
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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
Islamic theology
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, with a comparison between the portrayals of the
Abrahamic god
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in the
Bible
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References
External links
* https://theology.nd.edu/people/gabriel-reynolds/
* https://www.academia.edu/25775465
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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)