Josef W. Meri

Josef Waleed Meri ( Arabic يوسف وليد مرعيYūsuf Walīd Marʿī; Hebrew יוסף מרעי; * 1969 in Chicago ) is an American scholar in the field of premodern Islamic history and culture and the dialogue between religions. His family is from Jerusalem .

Life

Josef W. Meri studied Medieval Islamic Studies at Wolfson College of the University of Oxford . He was a Special Scholar-in-Residence at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought (Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought), Jordan , and project coordinator of the Great Tafsir of the Qur'an Project. He was Academic Director of the Center for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations at the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and a Fellow of St. Edmund's College , University of Cambridge . In the academic year 2013/2014 Meri Allianz was Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Meri was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam on 13 October 2007, "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (Engl. "Leaders of Christian Churches , everywhere ... “).

Fonts (selection)

As an author

• The cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria ( Oxford oriental monographs ). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002.
• Lonely wayfarer's guide to pilgrimage. Ali ibn Abi bakr al-Harawi's Kitab al-Isharat ila Ma rifat al-Ziyarat (= Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam , Vol. 19). Darwin Press, Princeton, NJ 2004, ISBN 0-87850-169-X .
• Bayān al-Farq bayn al-Ṣadr wal-Qalb wal-Fuʾād wal-Lubb ( بيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللب ). The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center , Amman, 2nd edition 2012, ISBN 978-9957-8533-5-8 , online (PDF; 761 kB).

As editor and co-editor

• with Farhad Daftary : Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam. Essays in Honor of Wilferd Madelung . IB Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies , London 2003.
• Medieval Islamic Civilization. An Encyclopedia , 2 volumes. Routledge, New York 2006, ISBN 0-415-96690-6 .
• The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations . Routledge, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-415-64516-4 .
• Jewish-Muslim Relations in Past and Present: A Kaleidoscopic View . Brill, Leiden 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-23580-9 .

Web links

• Josef (Yousef) Meri , biography (English)
• Dr Josef Meri (St. Edmund's College Fellows) ( Memento from August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Videos

• Dr Josef Meri on Jews, Christians and Muslims in Europe: Modern Challenges.mov - youtube.com

References and footnotes

1. ↑ woolf.cam.ac.uk
2. ↑ Summary of A Common Word Between Us and You (PDF; 186 kB).

Josef W. Meri (alternative names of the lemma)
Yousef Meri; Josef W. Meri; Josef Meri; Yūsuf Walīd Marʿī; Josef Waleed Meri; Yousef Waleed Meri; يوسف مرعي