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Josef W. Meri

Josef W. Meri
Born1969 December 23
Chicago, IL
Other namesYousef Meri; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materU.C. Berkeley; Oxford University
Known forIslamic History; Islamic Studies; Muslim-Jewish Relations
Notable workMedieval 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

  1. ^ Meri, Josef (2023-06-01). "Josef Meri". Josef Meri: Deutsche Biographie.
  2. ^ Meri, Josef (2023-05-19). "Georgetown University Biography". Josef Meri: Georgetown University.
  3. ^ [1] Georgetown University, Qatar Georgetown University Qatar
  4. ^ [2] Faculty and Staff, Center for the Study of Jewish, Christian, Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
  5. ^ [3] Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  6. ^ "St Edmund's College - University of Cambridge". 2021-09-22. Archived from the original on 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  7. ^ [4] Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University
  8. ^ [5] Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousef_Meri