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A groundbreaking comparative study that illuminates the connections between the Qur'an and the Bible While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred scripture of Islam, the third Abrahamic faith, has generally been considered separately. Noted religious scholar Gabriel Said Reynolds draws on centuries of Qur'anic and Biblical studies to offer rigorous and revelatory commentary on how these holy books are intrinsically connected. Reynolds demonstrates how Jewish and Christian characters, imagery, and literary devices feature prominently in the Qur'an, including stories of angels bowing before Adam and of Jesus speaking as an infant. This important contribution to religious studies features a full translation of the Qur'an along with excerpts from the Jewish and Christian texts. It offers a clear analysis of the debates within the communities of religious scholars concerning the relationship of these scriptures, providing a new lens through which to view the powerful links that bond these three major religions.
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Gabriel Said Reynolds is Professor of Islamic Studies ad Theology at Notre Dame. His research is focused above all on the Qur'n and Muslim-Christian relations. He wrote a dissertation on the remarkable Islamic history of Christianity of ?Abd 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'n, and edited the acts of the conferences as The Qur'n in Its Historical Context (Routledge 2008) and New Perspectives on the Qur'n: The Qur'n in Its Historical Context 2 (Routledge 2011) . In 2012-13 Prof. Reynolds directed, along with Mehdi Azaiez, "The Qur?n Seminar" a year-long project with a team of 28 international scholars to produce a collaborative scholarly commentary on the Qur?n. Together with Emran El-Badawi he is the co-director of The International Qur?anic Studies Association (iqsaweb.org) . Reynolds' principal work on the Qur?an is The Qur'n 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 Qur?an, the life of the Prophet Muhammad, or the classical period of Islam.Prof. Reynolds has also been a visiting professor at Université de Saint Joseph in Lebanon and Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. He has conducted research and delivered lectures in cities throughout the Middle East, including Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut, Damascus, 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.
