New project associate Salam Rassi

The Stories of Survival project would like to extend a warm welcome to Salam Rassi as  Project Associate.

Salam Rassi is Post-Doctoral Fellow in Eastern Christian & Islamic Manuscript Cataloguing at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML). His current research focuses on the history of theological encyclopaedism among Christians in the medieval Islamic world and the Syriac reception of Avicennan philosophy. . In addition to his own research, he is currently working on an extensive digital catalogue of Arabic and Syriac manuscript collections from Aleppo, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, and Mali. Salam hopes that his cataloguing efforts will help further the impact of Oxford’s ERC-funded project Stories of Survival, which, among other things, seeks to document the literary output of Middle Eastern Christians between 1500 and 1750.