📚 Book: Allah: God In The Qur'an | ✍️ Author: Gabriel Said Reynolds | Episode 4

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📚Book: "Allah: God In The Qur'an"
📚Genre: History / Religion / Christianity / Islam
✍️ Author: Gabriel Said Reynolds
🎧 Episode info:
Professor Dr. Gabriel Said Reynolds of the University of Notre Dame speaks about his latest book "Allah: God In The Qur'an."
🖍 Episode highlights:
✅ The origin of the word "Allah"
✅ How pagan were the Meccans?
✅ Comparison: the Biblical and Qur'anic portrayals of God
✅ The critical-historical origins of the Qur'anic stories
✅ The Sleepers of Ephesus / The Sleepers of the Cave
✅ Question from Dr. Shabir Ally: The Qur'an's view towards the Bible
✅ Theological tension: Allah as a god of both mercy and vengeance
✅ Who was the real (historical) Dhul Qarnayn?
✅ Jesus in the Qur'an
▶️ Gabriel Said Reynold's Official YouTube Channel: @ExploringtheQuranandtheBible
▶️ Dr. Shabir Ally's Official YouTube Channel: @QuranSpeaks
▶️ IQSA's Official YouTube Channel: @iqsaonline556
✍️ Author's bio:
+ Gabriel Said Reynolds did his doctoral work at Yale University in Islamic Studies.
+ Currently he researches the Qur'ān and Muslim/Christian relations and is Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology in the Department of Theology at Notre Dame.
+ He is the author of The Qur'ān and Its Biblical Subtext (Routledge 2010) and The Emergence of Islam (Fortress, 2012), the translator of ʿAbd al-Jabbar’s Critique of Christian Origins (BYU 2008), and editor of The Qur'ān in Its Historical Context (Routledge 2008) and New Perspectives on the Qur'ān: The Qur'ān in Its Historical Context 2 (Routledge 2011).
+ In 2018 he published The Qurʾan and the Bible with Yale University Press and in 2020 Allah: God in the Qur'an, also with YUP. At Notre Dame he teaches courses on theology, Muslim/Christian Relations, and Islamic Origins.
📚 Book Review by Omar Nizam:
This is - quite simply - a brilliant book written by a scholar who is - quite simply - brilliant.
In "Allah: God In The Qur'an", Gabriel Said Reynolds seamlessly brings together his background as an Arab-Catholic with his vocation as a Qur'anic scholar to create a written masterpiece.
The book readily delivers on it's title, as Reynolds gives his readers a truly holistic portrait of Allah as He is depicted in the Qur'an - as a god of both Mercy and Vengeance.
Reynolds asks profound questions in the book which will be of interest to both academics and the devoted alike: namely whether Allah's mercy is conditional or unconditional, and what will be the fate of believers, sinners, and unbelievers. All these timeless questions are confronted in the book.
What I also especially loved about the book is Reynolds giving answers to questions which are not always answered or tackled by most Muslim scholars / theologians, such as the relationship of the Qur'an with the Bible and how the Biblical and Qur'anic stories are not just COMMON, but also WHERE, HOW, and WHY they DIFFER.
Almost every question that I've had over the years on various Biblical and Qur'anic topics have gotten answered in this book, for which reason I strongly believe that this book will be of great value to both students of comparative religion as well as to people who advance the cause of Christian-Muslim relations.
My Rating: 5/5 stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 (with great distinction)
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Capitole

1. Author's introduction (00:00:00)

2. The origin of the word "Allah" (00:04:05)

3. How pagan were the Meccans? (00:13:32)

4. Comparison: the Biblical and Qur'anic portrayals of God (00:18:51)

5. The critical-historical origins of the Qur'anic stories (00:22:53)

6. The Sleepers of Ephesus / The Sleepers of the Cave (00:25:51)

7. Question from Dr. Shabir Ally: The Qur'an's view towards the Bible (00:30:40)

8. Theological tension: Allah as a god of both mercy and vengeance (00:36:22)

9. Who was the real (historical) Dhul Qarnayn? (00:39:15)

10. Jesus in the Qur'an (00:41:44)

11. Gabriel's book recommendations (00:44:42)

12. Future writing projects (00:47:49)

13. Gabriel's YouTube Channel: Exploring the Qur'an and the Bible (00:49:04)

14. IQSA: International Qur'anic Studies Association (00:50:27)