Holger Zellentin is a historian of religions of late antiquity, with a special interest in Talmudic and Koranic studies. His approach combines literary criticism with historical and legal history methods to define similarities and differences between Jewish, Christian, and early Islamic cultural traditions.

He has already received several awards and prizes for his research in this area. The European Research Council, the British Academy, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) are among the supporters of his work. In 2014 he was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, and he is the PI of the ERC-funded project, The Quran as a Source for Late Antiquity (2021-2025). He is Chairman of the Board of the International Association for Qur'anic Studies (IQSA) and was a Board Member of the British Association for Jewish Studies (BAJS) for five years. 

In 2019 he was appointed to the University of Tübingen, where he now lives, climbs, and rides his bike.

Visit Holger Zellentin’s Academia.edu page here.