Anouar Majid in conversation with Gabriel Said Reynolds, the distinguished professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, about the extent to which the Qur’an is a late chapter in the long biblical story (including apocrypha).
Biography
Gabriel Said Reynolds received his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Yale University. He currently researches the Qur’ān and Muslim-Christian relations and serves as 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 Press, 2nd ed., 2023), the translator of ʿAbd al-Jabbar’s Critique of Christian Origins (BYU Press, 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).
He has published a series of books with Yale University Press: The Qur’ān and the Bible (2018), Allah: God in the Qur’ān (2020), and Christianity and the Qur’ān (2025).
