Reuven Firestone

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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

The Ornament of the World
The Ornament of the World
Himself (Hebrew Union College)
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 made this rare and fruitful collaboration possible, and what ultimately tore it apart.