Uri Rubin a Professor

Professor

A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...

 in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Islamic studies

In a Muslim context, Islamic studies can be an umbrella term for all virtually all of academia, both originally researched and as defined by the Islamization of knowledge...

 at the Tel-Aviv University in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. His areas of research are early Islam, with special emphasis on Qur'an, Qur'an Exegesis (Tafsir

Tafsir

Tafseer is the Arabic word for exegesis or commentary, usually of the Qur'an. Ta'wīl is a subset of tafsir and refers to esoteric or mystical interpretation. An author of tafsir is a mufassir .- Etymology :...

), and early Islamic tradition (Sira and Hadith

Hadith

The term Hadīth is used to denote a saying or an act or tacit approval or criticism ascribed either validly or invalidly to the Islamic prophet Muhammad....

).

Prof. Rubin is the author of the books The Eye of the Beholder: The Life of Muhammad as Viewed by the Early Muslims: A Textual Analysis (Princeton, New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1995);

Between Bible and Quran: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image (Princeton, New Jersey: The Darwin Press, 1999).

He is also the editor (with David J. Wasserstein) of Dhimmis and Others: Jews and Christians and the World of Classical Islam. Israel Oriental Studies 17 (1997);

The Life of Muhammad (The Formation of the Classical Islamic World: Vol. 4), Aldershot, 1998.

Prof. Rubin has also served on the Advisory Board for The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (Leiden: Brill, 2001-6. [3]
References
Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān CD-ROM Edition

In 2011 published a collection of his articles from 1975 till today in Ashgate Publishing.