Josef W. Meri
| Josef (Yousef) Meri | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 23, 1969 Chicago, IL |
| Other names | Yousef Meri; Josef W. Meri; Josef Meri; Yūsuf Waleed al-Marʿī; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Islamic History; Middle East History; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies |
| Alma mater | U.C. Berkeley; Oxford University |
| Known for | Islamic History; Islamic Studies; Muslim-Jewish Relations |
Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (Arabic: يوسف وليد مرعي Yūsuf Walīd al-Marʿī; Hebrew: יוסף מרעי) is a academic who specialises 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.
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.
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