Download Gabriel Said Reynolds Gabriel Said Reynolds is Professor of Islamic

Gabriel Said Reynolds
Gabriel Said Reynolds is Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at Notre Dame. His research is
focused above all on the Qur'ān and Muslim-Christian relations. He wrote a dissertation on the
remarkable Islamic history of Christianity of ʿAbd al-Jabbar (d. 1025); the dissertation won the Field
Prize at Yale and was published (Brill 2004) as A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu. Reynolds
also prepared an introduction and translation of this history, published by (BYU 2008) as The Critique
of Christian Origins.
At Notre Dame Reynolds has organized two international conferences (2005, 2009) on the Qur'ān,
and edited the acts of the conferences as 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 project with a team
of 28 international scholars to produce a collaborative scholarly commentary on the Qurʾān.
Currently he serves as chair of the Executive Board of The International Qurʾanic Studies Association
(iqsaweb.org).
Prof. Reynolds’ principal work on the Qurʾan is The Qur'ān and Its Biblical Subtext (Routledge 2010).
He has also published The Emergence of Islam (Fortress, 2012), a work written especially for courses
which cover the Qurʾan, the life of the Prophet Muhammad, or the classical period of Islam.
Currently Prof. Reynolds is working on a Biblically-minded commentary on the Qurʾān for Yale
University Press.
At Notre Dame Prof. Reynolds teaches classes including “Foundations of Theology,” “Islam and
Christian Theology,” “The Quran and Its Relation to the Bible,” “The Holy Land,” and “Islamic
Origins.” He has also been a visiting professor at Université de Saint Joseph in Lebanon and
Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Prof. Reynolds has conducted research and delivered
lectures in cities throughout the Middle East, including Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, Ankara,
and Tehran. In his spare time he follows Notre Dame football, plays soccer, and watches Bollywood
movies. Prof. Reynolds and his wife Lourdes have four children: Luke, Emmanuel, Theresa, and
René.