Gabriel Said Reynolds researches the Qur’ān and Muslim/Christian relations and is Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame.  He is the author of The Qur’ān and Its Biblical Subtext (Routledge 2010) and The Emergence of Islam (Fortress, 2012), the translator of ʿAbd al-Jabbar’s Critique of Christian Origins (BYU 2008), and editor of The Qur’ān in Its Historical Context (Routledge 2008) and New Perspectives on the Qur’ān: The Qur’ān in Its Historical Context 2 (Routledge 2011).  In 2012-13 Prof. Reynolds directed, along with Mehdi Azaiez, “The Qurʾān Seminar,” a year-long collaborative project dedicated to developing a scholarly commentary on the Qurʾān.   In 2012 he was made co-director, along with Emran El-Badawi, of the consultation to found The International Qurʾanic Studies Association, the first learned society dedicated to the study of the Qurʾan, and he continues to serve in that role.

Gabriel Said Reynolds on MRB

The Qur’an according to Itself. On Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau’s Le Coran par lui-même.