G.S. Reynolds, Notre Dame
Education and Employment
2003-Present, University of Notre Dame
Theology Dept, Notre Dame
Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology (promotion to Associate May 2009, promotion to Professor May 2013, Crowley Chair May 2020)
2003
Ph.D. Yale University
Ph.D. dissertation on Muslim-Christian relations in the classical period, awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize for a dissertation in Humanities, Yale University (2003).
Recent Speaking Engagements
June 3, 2025
University of Austin (Texas)
“Christianity and Islam: What do they teach at these schools?”
March 25, 2025
University of Oxford (Pembroke)
Paradise, Hellfire, and the Problem of Evil in the Qur'an
October 31, 2024
On Catholic Imagination, Center for Ethics & Culture Conference (Notre Dame)
“Is God Safe? A Conversation with Islam"
October 30, 2024
Oxford Center for Muslim-Christian Studies (Zoom)
“God, humans, and paradise as reward in Muslim and Christian perspective”
August 30, 2024
Inekas/Tehran Summer School (Zoom)
"Biblical Turns of Phrase in the Qur’an"
June 6, 2024
United Bible Society Conference in Amman, Jordan
"Jesus in Recent Muslim Qur'an Translations"
Major Publications
Christianity and the Qur’an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia. New Haven: Yale University Press 2025.
Yale Dictionary of the Qur’an. General editor. Yale University Press. Publication 2026.
Allah: God in the Qurʾan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. Arabic translation: Allāh: ilāh al-qurʾān.
The Qurʾan and the Bible: Text and Commentary (Revised Qurʾan Translation of Ali Quli Qaraʾi annotated with Biblical Texts and Commentary by Gabriel Said Reynolds). New Haven: Yale University Press: 2018.
The Emergence of Islam: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2023 (2nd edition). Arabic translation: Nushūʾ al-Islām. Trans. Saʿd Saʿdī and ʿAbd al-Masīḥ Saʿdī. Beirut: Dar al-Machreq, 2017. Persian translation: Trans. Fahimeh Jamei, Forough Publishing, 2020.