Gabriel Said Reynolds, professor of Islamic studies and theology at the University of Notre Dame, has worked for years for a better understanding of the origin of the Qur’ān and, especially, its relationship to Jewish and Christian Scripture and its interpretive tradition. Reynolds has edited two important collections of studies on the Qur’ān’s historical context (Routledge, 2008, 2011) and has authored the learned study The Qur’ān and Its Biblical Subtext (Routledge, 2010). The fruits of these labors are everywhere in evidence in the new commentary on the Qur’ān that we find in the volume under review.
The Qur’ān and the Bible is made up of Ali Quli Qarai’s revised English translation of his second published edition (published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur’an, 2011), for which Reynolds has high regard, and Reynolds’s introduction, commentary, selected bibliography (subdivided into translations of the Qur’ān, Islamic primary sources, non-Islamic primary sources, and secondary literature), index...
