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Gerald R. Hawting (b. 1944) is a noted Orientalist scholar of Islam. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the History of the Near Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
- The First Dynasty of Islam (1986), translated two volumes in the Tabari Translation Project (vols. 17, 20), edited together with Abdul Kader Shereef,
- Approaches to the Quran, ed. (1993)
- The Idea of Idolatry and the Rise of Islam: From Polemic to History., 1999 Cambridge University Press
- "John Wansbrough, Islam, and monotheism". in Quest for the Historical Muhammad edited by Ibn Warraq.
