Josef W. Meri | |
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| Born | 1969 December 23 Chicago, IL |
| Other names | Yousef Meri; Yusuf Waleed al-Marʿi; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | 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
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: 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.) [6] 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
- ^ Meri, Josef (2023-06-01). "Josef Meri". Josef Meri: Deutsche Biographie.
- ^ Meri, Josef (2023-05-19). "Georgetown University Biography". Josef Meri: Georgetown University.
- ^ [1] Georgetown University, Qatar Georgetown University Qatar
- ^ [2] Faculty and Staff, Center for the Study of Jewish, Christian, Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
- ^ [3] Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- ^ "St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge". 2021-09-22. Archived from the original on 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
- ^ [4] Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University
- ^ [5] Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
External links
- "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
- Fulbright alumni