Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (Ar. يوس٠وليد مرعي / Yūsuf Walīd al-Marʿī / Hebr. יוסף מרעי‎) is a leading specialist in medieval Islamic history and civilization, social history, the history of the Jewish communities of the Middle East and the academic study of interfaith relations. From 2013-2014 he served as eighth Allianz Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies (2013-2014) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University.
He was born in Chicago in 1969 and comes from a Jerusalemite family. He received a B.A. degree (Magna cum laude) from University of California, Berkeley in 1992, an M.A. degree from State University of New York Binghamton in 1995 and a D.Phil degree from Wolfson College, Oxford, Oxford University in 1999.
From 2010-2013 he served as Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, Woolf Institute, Cambridge. From 2005-2010 he served as Special Scholar in Residence and coordinator of the Great Tafsirs of the Qur'an project (Altafsir.com) at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan which is under the patronage of Abdallah II, King of Jordan. He is a lifetime fellow of the Institute. Prior to that he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London and the University of California, Berkeley.
Meri is the winner of the prestigious 2014 Goldziher Prize in Jewish-Muslim Relations awarded by the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College. He is also a Faculty Fellow of the Center.
Most of his published articles and books deal with various aspects of Islamic history, civilization, interfaith relations and ritual practice.
Bibliography
Books & Edited Volumes
- The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) (ISBN 0-19-925078-2).
- (ed. with F. 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.) Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2006) (ISBN 0-415-96690-6).
- (ed.) BayÄn al-Farq bayn al-á¹¢adr wal-Qalb wal-FuʾÄd wal-Lubb بيان الÙرق بين الصدر والقلب والÙؤاد واللب], (Amman: The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 2009).
- (ed.) [5] BayÄn al-Farq bayn al-á¹¢adr wal-Qalb wal-FuʾÄd wal-Lubb (بيان الÙرق بين الصدر والقلب والÙؤاد واللب], Second revised edition (Amman: The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 2012) (ISBN 978-9957-8533-5-8).
External links
- Academia.edu profile
- LinkedIn Profile
- Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman
- LinkedIn profile
- Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
- Worldcat.org
- Evi.com
Videos
- Dr Josef Meri on Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe: Modern Challenges.mov - Youtube.com