A online conversation with Gabriel Said Reynolds (Notre Dame) and Jack Tannous (Princeton) on recent research into Christianity in Arabia and the rise of Islam focusing on Professor Reynolds’ recent book, Christianity and the Qur’an: The Rise of Islam in Christian Arabia (Yale 2025). The event was recorded on October 3, 2025.
- Gabriel Said Reynolds is Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Qur’an and the Bible and Allah: God in the Qur’an. His work explores the Qur’an in its Late Antique context, especially its engagement with Christian and Jewish traditions.
- Jack Tannous is Associate Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the cultural history of the eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity, with a focus on Syriac-speaking Christian communities and early Christian-Muslim relations and is the author of The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers.
