Josef W. Meri
Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (Ar. يوسف وليد مرعي) is a leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic culture, social history, and interfaith relations. He is Academic Director in Muslim-Jewish Relations at The Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (CMJR), The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths and a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. He was born in Chicago in 1969 and comes from a Jerusalemite family.
He received a B.A. degree (Magna cum laude) from University of California, Berkeley in 1992, an M.A. degree from State University of New York Binghamton in 1995 and a D.Phil degree from Wolfson College, Oxford, Oxford University in 1999.
For over five years he served as Special Scholar in Residence and coordinator of the Great Tafsirs of the Qur'an project (Altafsir.com) at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan which is under the patronage of Abdallah II, King of Jordan. He is a lifetime fellow of the Institute. Prior to that he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London and the University of California, Berkeley.
Most of his published articles and books deal with various aspects of Islamic history, civilization, interfaith relations and ritual practice.
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- The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) (ISBN 0-19-925078-2).
- (ed. with F. Daftary) Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003) (ISBN 1-86064-859-2).
- (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) (ISBN 0-87850-169-X).
- (ed.) Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2006) (ISBN 0-415-96690-6).
- (ed.) Bayān al-Farq bayn al-Ṣadr wal-Qalb wal-Fuʾād wal-Lubb بيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللب, (Amman: The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 2009).
