Gabriel Said Reynolds
Asst. Prof. of Islamic Studies and Theology
Notre
tel.: 1.574.631.5138
e-mail: reynolds@nd.edu
International Conference at the
Conference
Papers published as THE QURAN IN ITS HISTORICAL
CONTEXT, Routledge Press, 2007
From amazon.com: 
excellent
scholarship,
“This book is the well-edited fruit of a
conference of scholars who used differing approaches to explore what can be
known about the setting and origin of the Qur'an. It also helpfully reviews the
many, and sometimes quite contradictory, proposed histories of the formation
and transmission of this sacred canon. It includes discussion of traditional
Islamic scholarship and of historical-critical religious studies approaches.
This scholarly work invites comparisons and contrasts with the earlier sacred
canons of Judaism and Christianity. Several essays advance scholarship on the
essential text of Islam and encourage understanding of differing traditions….”
Article on the
Conference in al-Hayat Newspaper (London/Beirut),
July 16, 2005