Salam Rassi

Salam Rassi is a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on theological and philosophical interactions between Christians and Muslims in the medieval Islamicate World, with specialties in Syriac and Arabic Christian thought, Avicennan philosophy reception, and the history of Islamicate alchemy. He earned his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2016 and has held positions at the American University of Beirut and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

• Education:
• PhD in History, University of Oxford, 2016

His research interests include theological encyclopaedism, the Syriac reception of Avicennan metaphysics, and Christian contributions to medieval science. He is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History and has published on figures such as Barhebraeus and Abdisho of Nisibis.

• Awards: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Upcoming Publication: Article on an unedited alchemical primer in Asiatische Studien

Rassi’s work bridges religious history, intellectual history, and digital humanities, emphasizing cross-cultural exchanges in medieval scholarship.