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Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (Arabic: يوسف وليد مرعيYūsuf Walīd Marʿī) is an American historian of Interfaith Relations in the Middle East and the history of religion.[1]
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]
(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) (ISBN0-87850-169-X).
(ed.) [6]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) (ISBN978-9957-8533-5-8).
References
^Meri, Josef (2023-06-01). "Josef Meri". Josef Meri: Deutsche Biographie.