Uri Rubin
Arabic scholar
Intro | Arabic scholar | |
Places | Israel | |
is | Professor Educator Orientalist | |
Work field | Academia Social science | |
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Birth | 1944, Kiryat Ono, Israel | |
Age | 81 years |
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.