Uri Rubin

Uri Rubin (Hebrew: אורי רובין; 1944 – 26 October 2021[1]) was an Israeli academic who was a professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University.

His areas of research were early Islam (with special emphasis on the Qur'an), Qur'an exegesis (tafsir), and early Islamic tradition (sira and hadith).

He authored a number of books on the subjects and also contributed entries to the Encyclopaedia of Islam and other works.

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

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