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Salam Rassi is a lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at the University of Edinburgh. His research areas include Christian-Muslim interactions, focusing on theology, philosophy, and literature. Rassi completed his doctorate in Asian Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and has previously been a Mellon Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the American University of Beirut. His work involves extensive cataloguing of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts and he has held positions including British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford. Rassi has authored a book titled 'Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World,' published by Oxford University Press in 2022, examining Christian apologetics in relation to Islam across a 600-year span. He is interested in supervising PhD candidates in areas relating to Christian-Muslim theological encounters during the Middle Ages, and he actively engages in research related to the historical, intellectual, and social histories of medieval Christian communities in Muslim-ruled regions. His ongoing projects include annotated translations and collaborative works aimed at exploring the historical interactions of Arabic and Syriac languages and their cultural contexts.
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