Josef W. Meri
Josef W. Meri | |
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| Born | 1969 December 23 Chicago, IL |
| Other names | Yousef Meri; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | U.C. Berkeley; Oxford University |
| Known for | Islamic History; Islamic Studies; Muslim-Jewish Relations |
| Notable work | Medieval Islamic civilization: an encyclopedia, Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria |
Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (Arabic: يوسف وليد مرعي Yūsuf Walīd Marʿī) is an American historian of Interfaith Relations in the Middle East and the history of religion.[1]
Career
[edit]He is a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University, Qatar.[2] He is also an Associate of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.[3] Meri was a Senior Associate of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College which closed in 2020.[4]
From 2018 to 2023, he was a faculty member at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar. From 2013 to 2014, Meri served as eighth Allianz Visiting professor of Islamic Studies at LMU Munich.[5] He was also a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, Cambridge University,[6] and a visiting fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University.[7]
Meri is the winner of the 2014 Goldziher Prize in Jewish-Muslim Relations awarded by the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College.[8]
Bibliography
[edit]Books and edited volumes
[edit]- (ed. and contributor) Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge, 2017 (Volume 1: ISBN 978-1138061002) (Volume 2: ISBN 978-1138061316)
- (ed.) Jewish-Muslim Relations in Past and Present: A Kaleidoscopic View (Leiden: Brill, 2017)(ISBN 9789004235809)
- (ed. and contributor) The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations (New York: Routledge, 2016)(ISBN 978-0415-64516-4).
- The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) (ISBN 0-19-925078-2).
- (ed. with Farhad Daftary) Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003) (ISBN 1-86064-859-2).
- (ed. and trans.) A Lonely Wayfarer's Guide to Pilgrimage: Ali ibn Abi Bakr's Kitab al-Isharat ila Ma'rifat al-Ziyarat (Princeton: Darwin Press, 2004) (ISBN 0-87850-169-X).
- (ed. and contributor) Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2006) (ISBN 0-415-96690-6).
- (ed.) Bayān al-Farq bayn al-Ṣadr wal-Qalb wal-Fuʾād wal-Lubb (بيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللب], Second revised edition (Amman: The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 2012. First published 2009) (ISBN 978-9957-8533-5-8).
References
[edit]- ↑ Meri, Josef (2023-06-01). "Josef Meri". Josef Meri: Deutsche Biographie.
- ↑ Meri, Josef (2023-05-19). "Georgetown University Biography". Josef Meri: Georgetown University.
- ↑ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". Georgetown University. Retrieved 2026-07-20.
- ↑ "Faculty and Staff". Merrimack College. Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2026-07-20.
- ↑ "Allianz Gastprofessur". Allianz Gastprofessur - Institut für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Archived from the original on 7 December 2024.
- ↑ "St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge". 2021-09-22. Archived from the original on 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
- ↑ "Current Visiting Fellows - HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies". www.cis.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2026-07-20.
- ↑ "Merrimack presents award to interfaith historian, scholar". Merrimack College. 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2026-07-20.
External links
[edit]- "Josef Waleed Meri". May 19, 2022. - Georgetown University, Qatar
- Josef W. Meri in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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- American medievalists
- Scholars of medieval Islamic history
- American social historians
- 1969 births
- Living people
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
- American Islamic studies scholars
- Binghamton University alumni
- Fellows of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
- American expatriate academics