Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri ( Yūsuf Walīd Marʿī) is an American historian of Interfaith Relations in the Middle East and the history of religion.
Career
He is a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University, Qatar. He is also an Associate of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Meri was a Senior Associate of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College which closed in 2020.
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 LMU Munich. He was also a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, Cambridge University, and a visiting fellow at the 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.
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.) 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) ().
References
External links - Georgetown University, Qatar