Citizenship American | Name Josef Meri | |
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Born December 23, 1969 (age 54) Chicago, IL ( 1969-12-23 ) Other names Yousef Meri; Josef W. Meri; Josef Meri; Yusuf Waleed al-Marʿi; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي Alma mater U.C. Berkeley; Oxford University Known for Islamic History; Islamic Studies; Muslim-Jewish Relations Books Medieval Islamic civilization: an encyclopedia, Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria Fields History of Islam, Islamic studies, Jewish studies | ||
Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (Arabic: يوسف وليد مرعي Yūsuf Walīd Marʿī; Hebrew: יוסף מרעי) is an academic who specializes in the history of interfaith relations in the Middle East in past and present, medieval Islamic history and civilization, social history, and the history of the Jewish communities of the Middle East. 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.
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. He is also a Faculty Associate of the Center.