Josef W. Meri Explained

Josef W. Meri
Other Names:	Yousef Meri; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي
Birth Date:	1969 December 23
Birth Place:	Chicago, IL
Citizenship:	American
Alma Mater:	U.C. Berkeley; Oxford University
Known For:	Islamic History; Islamic Studies; Muslim-Jewish Relations
Notable Works:	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

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 the Ludwig Maximilian University of 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

Books and edited volumes

• (ed. and contributor) Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge, 2017 (Volume 1:) (Volume 2:)
• (ed.) Jewish-Muslim Relations in Past and Present: A Kaleidoscopic View (Leiden: Brill, 2017)
• (ed. and contributor) The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations (New York: Routledge, 2016).
• The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) .
• (ed. with Farhad Daftary) Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003) .
• (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) .
• (ed. and contributor) Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2006) .
• (ed.) http://www.rissc.jo/docs/04-bayan/120102-bayanalFarqweb.pdf 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) .

External links

• Web site: Josef Waleed Meri. May 19, 2022 . - Georgetown University, Qatar

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meri . Josef . 2023-06-01 . Josef Meri . Josef Meri: Deutsche Biographie.
2. Web site: Meri . Josef . 2023-05-19 . Georgetown University Biography . Josef Meri: Georgetown University.
3. https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002TS0bGQAT/josef-meri
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20220704151723/https://www.merrimack.edu/academics/centers/jcmr/meet_faculty_staff/
5. https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/allianz/index.html
6. Web site: 2021-09-22 . St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge . 2023-05-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210922083836/https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/goldziher-prize-former-research-fellow . 2021-09-22 .
7. https://web.archive.org/web/20130709011239/http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/visiting-academics/visiting-fellows/current-visiting-fellows/
8. https://www.merrimack.edu/news/merrimack-presents-award-to-interfaith-historian-scholar/