Jason Welle holds a PhD in Theological and Religious Studies from Georgetown University and master’s degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Catholic Theological Union. He is Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College, where he has taught since 2023. He previously served as Director of Studies at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) in Rome. His research centers on Islamic mysticism, on Muslim-Christian relations, and on the Franciscan intellectual tradition. He is author of Companionship and Virtue in Classical Sufism: The Contribution of al-Sulamī (I.B. Tauris, 2024) and translator of Treatises on the Sufi Way (Islamic Texts Society, 2025), a collection of al-Sulamī’s writings. In addition to journal articles and book chapters, he is co-editor of a two-volume collection of papers from the 2015 Ecclesiological Investigations conference in Washington, DC: Vatican II: Remembering the Future – Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Explorations of the Council’s Legacy and Promise (Palgrave, 2018).