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]
Josef W. Meri
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| Born | 1969 December 23
Chicago, IL
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| Other names | Yousef Meri; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | U.C. Berkeley; Oxford University |
| Known for | Islamic History; Islamic Studies; Muslim-Jewish Relations |
| Notable work | Medieval Islamic civilization: an encyclopedia, Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria |
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 UnderstandingatGeorgetown 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]