Reuven Firestone

Reuven Firestone is the Regenstein Professor in Medieval Judaism and Islam at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. His scholarship focuses on the Bible and its exegesis; Qur’an and its exegesis; Religious Phenomenology; Comparative Religion; and Religious Dialogue.

Movies Starring Reuven Firestone (1)

The Ornament of the World (2019)

Filmed in Cordoba, Granada, Seville, and Toledo, this documentary retraces the 800-year period in medieval Spain when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that frequently transcended their religious differences, revealing what ma ...

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