Theology Department Faculty
Jason Welle
Assistant Professor
Jason Welle
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 417N
Telephone: 617-552-0681
Email: jason.welle@bc.edu
ORCID 0009-0007-6460-3248
Education
- B.A., St. Olaf College
- M.T.S., University of Notre Dame
- M.Div., Catholic Theological Union
- Ph.D., Georgetown University
Research Interests
- Christian-Muslim Relations
- Islamic Mysticism
- Medieval Studies
- Franciscan Intellectual Tradition
Office Hours
Monday, 1:00 – 2:30
Wednesday, 10:00 – 11:30
or by appointment
Publications
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulamī. I.B. Tauris, London, 2024.
Treatises on the Sufi Way, by Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī. Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, 2025.
Special Issue: 800th Anniversary of the Encounter between Francis of Assisi and Sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil. The Muslim World 109, nos. 1-2 (2019). Co-edited with Fareed Z. Munir.
Catholicism Opening to the World and Other Confessions: Vatican II and its Impact. Co-edited with Vladimir Latinovic and Gerard Mannion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2018.
Catholicism Engaging Other Faiths: Vatican II and its Impact. Co-edited with Vladimir Latinovic and Gerard Mannion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2018.
ARTICLES
“A Christian Reading of the Qurʾān.” In Christian Perspectives on Transforming Interreligious Encounter: Essays in Honor of Leo D. Lefebure. Ed. Peter C. Phan and Anh Tran, 97–115. Lexington Books, Lanham, 2024.
“Cristo e i cristiani nell’opera letteraria del maestro ṣūfī al-Sulamī.” Islamochristiana 48 (2022): 229-44.
“Amici tutti?: Pope Francis and the Rhetoric of Interreligious Friendship.” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue 32, no. 2 (2022): 155-74. doi.org/10.2143/sid.32.2.3291407
“Arabic Sources for the Encounter between the Saint and the Sultan: Fakhr al-Fārisī’s Famous Adventure with Francis, or Lack Thereof.” Collectanea (Studia Orientalia Christiana) 48-49 (2015-2016), 7-75.