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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
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, Qatar. He is also an Associate of the
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at
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.
Georgetown University, Qatar Georgetown University Qatar
Meri was a Senior Associate of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations,
Merrimack College Merrimack College is a Private university, private Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian university in North Andover, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1947 by the Order of St. Augustine with an initial goal to educate World War II veterans. It en ...
which closed in 2020.
Faculty and Staff, Center for the Study of Jewish, Christian, Muslim Relations,
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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.Allianz Allianz SE ( , ) is a German Multinational corporation, multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management. Allianz is the world's largest List of largest insurance ...
Visiting Professor

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He was also a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge,
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, and a visiting fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University.Cambridge University The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ...


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 Merrimack College is a Private university, private Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian university in North Andover, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1947 by the Order of St. Augustine with an initial goal to educate World War II veterans. It en ...
.
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:
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, 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:
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, 2002) (). *(ed. with
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) ''Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam'' (London and New York:
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, 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:
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, 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) ().


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External links

* - Georgetown University, Qatar * {{DEFAULTSORT:Meri, Josef 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