Josef W. Meri
{{Infobox person
| name = 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 ({{langx|ar|يوسف وليد مرعي}} Yūsuf Walīd Marʿī) is an American historian of Interfaith Relations in the Middle East and the history of religion.{{Cite web |last=Meri |first=Josef |date=2023-06-01 |title=Josef Meri |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd1118873505.html?language=en |website=Josef Meri: Deutsche Biographie}}
Career
He is a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University, Qatar.{{Cite web |last=Meri |first=Josef |date=2023-05-19 |title=Georgetown University Biography |url=https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002TS0bGQAT/josef-meri |website=Josef Meri: Georgetown University}} He is also an Associate of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University.[https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002TS0bGQAT/josef-meri] Georgetown University, Qatar Georgetown University Qatar Meri was a Senior Associate of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College which closed in 2020.[https://web.archive.org/web/20220704151723/https://www.merrimack.edu/academics/centers/jcmr/meet_faculty_staff/] Faculty and Staff, Center for the Study of Jewish, Christian, Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
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.[https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/allianz/index.html] Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich He was also a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, Cambridge University,{{Cite web |date=2021-09-22 |title=St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge |url=https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/goldziher-prize-former-research-fellow |access-date=2023-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922083836/https://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/news/goldziher-prize-former-research-fellow |archive-date=2021-09-22 }} and a visiting fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130709011239/http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/visiting-academics/visiting-fellows/current-visiting-fellows/] Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University
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.[https://www.merrimack.edu/news/merrimack-presents-award-to-interfaith-historian-scholar/] Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
Bibliography
= Books and edited volumes =
- (ed. and contributor) [https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Revivals-Medieval-Islamic-Civilization-2006-An-Encyclopedia/Meri/p/book/9781138061002 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) [https://books.google.com/books?id=H-k9oc9xsuAC Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia], 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2006) ({{ISBN|0-415-96690-6}}).
- (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) ({{ISBN|978-9957-8533-5-8}}).
References
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External links
- {{Cite web|url=https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002TS0bGQAT/josef-meri |date=May 19, 2022 |title=Josef Waleed Meri}} - Georgetown University, Qatar
- {{WorldCat|id=lccn-n2002-54083}}
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Category:American medievalists
Category:Scholars of medieval Islamic history
Category:American social historians
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
Category:American Islamic studies scholars
Category:Binghamton University alumni