Michael Pregill
Interlocutor
International Studies
Boston University
United States of America
Biography
Michael Pregill (B.A. Columbia University 1993; M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School 1997; Ph.D. Columbia University 2007) is Interlocutor in the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations at Boston University. His primary area of expertise is early Islam, with a specific focus on the Qur’an and its interpretive tradition (tafsÄ«r). Much of his research concerns the reception and interpretation of biblical, Jewish, and Christian themes and motifs in tafsÄ«r and other branches of classical Islamic literature; critical approaches to Islamic origins; and the perception and representation of Jews and Christians in Islamic culture.
Research Interest
Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Late Antiquity, Qur’anic Studies, Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval Islam, Second Temple Judaism, Medieval Islamic History, Syriac Studies, Rabbinics, Syriac Literature
Publications
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Pregill ME. Methodologies for the Dating of Exegetical Works and Traditions: Can the Lost TafsÄ«r of KalbÄ« be Recovered from TafsÄ«r Ibn ‘AbbÄs (also known as al-WÄá¸iḥ)?. Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis.:393-453.
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Pregill M. IsrÄʾīliyyÄt, myth, and pseudepigraphy: Wahb b. Munabbih and the early Islamic versions of the fall of Adam and Eve. Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 2008;34:215-84.
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Pregill ME. The Hebrew Bible and the Quran: the problem of the Jewish ‘influence’on Islam. Religion Compass. 2007 Nov 1;1(6):643-59.
