Gabriel Said Reynolds

Gabriel Said Reynolds is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology and assistant professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His scholarship focuses on Qur'anic Studies, Origins of Islam, and Muslim-Christian relations, and to a more limited extent, also covers World Religions, World Church, and History of Christianity.

Biography Gabriel Said Reynolds obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Yale University. In 2016–2017 he directed the research project at the Fondation Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes in France. 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. In 2018 he has overseen commentaries on such aspects of Islam as the Nephilim in The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary. 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.