Uri Rubin

Arabic scholar
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IntroArabic scholar
PlacesIsrael
isProfessor Educator Orientalist
Work fieldAcademia Social science
Gender
Male
Birth1944, Kiryat Ono, Israel
Age81 years
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Biography

Uri Rubin (Hebrew: אורי רובין‎) is a Professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University in Israel. His areas of research are early Islam (with special emphasis on the Qur'an), Qur'an exegesis (tafsir), and early Islamic tradition (sira and hadith). He has authored a number of books on the subjects, and also contributed entries to the Encyclopaedia of Islam and other works.

Rubin has also served on the Advisory Board for the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an.

Books

  • The Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad as Viewed by the Early Muslims (A Textual Analysis). Princeton, New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1995.
  • Between Bible and Qur'an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image. Princeton, New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1999.
  • Muhammad the Prophet and Arabia. Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2011.
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