Josef W. Meri
Josef W. Meri (Arabic يوسف وليد مرعي / Yūsuf Waleed al -Mar ʿ ī / Hebrew יוסף מרעי; * 1969 in Chicago, United States) is an American scholar in the field of pre-modern Islamic history and culture and dialogue between religions. His family is from Jerusalem. Meri is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Islamic civilization in the Middle Ages ( Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia ), which is published by Routledge.
Life
Josef W. Meri studied at the University of Oxford Medieval Islamic Studies. 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 and one of the 138 signatories of the open letter A Common Word between Us and You (English A common Word between Us and you), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (English " leaders of Christian churches, everywhere ... " ) sent (October 13, 2007). He was Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Muslim - Jewish Relations of the Woolf Institute in Cambridge and Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University.
Since 2013 Meri Alliance Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich.
Works (selection)
- The cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria. Oxford [ et al ]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002 (Oxford oriental monographs ).
- Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia ( Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages ). Routledge Chapman & Hall (2005), 2 vols ( online excerpt).
- Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam: Essays in Honour of Wilferd Madelung, co-edited with Dr Farhad Daftary (London: IB Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2003).
- Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Islam (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press).
- Lonely Wayfarer's Guide To Pilgrimage: Ali ibn Abi bakr al - Kitab al - Harawi 's Isharat ila Ma rifat al - Ziyarat ( Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam) 2005.
- (PDF, 761 kB) Bayān al - Farq bayn al -Sadr wal- Qalb wal- Fu ʾ AD wal- Lubb ( بيان الفرق بين الصدر والقلب والفؤاد واللب ], Al -Hakim al -Tirmidhi, Second revised edition (Amman: The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, 2012) (ISBN 978-9957-8533-5-8 ).