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 projectUn 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]
Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2016). "A Flawed Prophet? Noah in the Qurʾān and Qurʾanic Commentary". In Daneshgar, Majid; Saleh, Walid (eds.). Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin. Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān. Vol. 11.
Leiden:
Brill Publishers. pp. 260–273.
doi:
10.1163/9789004337121_014.
ISBN978-90-04-33633-9.
S2CID165150752.
Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2017). "Moses, Son of Pharaoh: A Study of Qurʾān 26 and Its Exegesis". In Grundmann, Regina; Kattan, Assaad Elias; Pinggéra, Karl;
Tamer, Georges (eds.). Exegetical Crossroads: Understanding Scripture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Pre-Modern Orient. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation. Vol. 8.
Berlin:
De Gruyter. pp. 289–302.
doi:
10.1515/9783110564341-014.
ISBN978-3-11-056114-2.
S2CID171560125.
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