Salam Rassi
Salam Rassi is Lecturer of Islam and Christian Muslim Relations at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World (OUP, 2022).
Location United Kingdom
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Hi all! Salam again, your co-instructor for this course. Great to see that so many of you engaging well in this last stretch of the course. I've noticed a few comments about the percentage of Copts in Egypt today. The question is a fraught one, characterised by politics as much as demographics. If anyone is curious about this issue from a historical...
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Syriac Christianity is a great tradition that needs to be studied more. But where Christian-Muslim relations are involved, it is one of many important witnesses to this story (to say nothing of Christian Arabic and Armenian sources!)
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I advise one note of caution, however. Syriac sources are indeed much overlooked in most mainstream accounts. But the language has been studied in European institutions for the best part of 400 years––precisely because it helped scholars learn more about Christianity beyond the Greek and Latin traditions. There has been no real 'writing out' of history where...
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Thank you all for your spirited comments. Salam here, one of your tutors (back from a spell of sickness!). Michael Penn's video is indeed fascinating and instructive. I encourage you all to seek out his books (many of them affordable and fairly accessible, which can't be said of many academic books).
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Hi all! Allow me to introduce myself. I am Salam, co-instructor of this course. Thank you, Norma, for your comment! Here's a question to you all: What can you say about the figure of Abraham in both the Bible and Quran? Clearly he is a foundational figure in both. But how does the Quran build upon Biblical narratives about Abraham and where do you see the...
