birth_place |name other_names image_size field birth_date known_for article_title citizenship alma_mater
chicago , il josef -lrb- yousef -rrb- meri yousef ; yūsuf waleed al-marʿī ; josef waleed meri ; yousef meri waleed meri ; يوسف مرعي ; josef w. meri ; josef meri 150px islamic ; jewish studies history ; middle east history ; islamic studies 23 december 1969 islamic history ; islamic studies ; muslim-jewish relations josef w. meri
 american u.c. berkeley ; oxford university
josef w. meri

josef -lrb- yousef -rrb- waleed meri -lrb- ar .
يوسف وليد مرعي / yūsuf walīd al-marʿī / hebr .
יוסף מרעי -rrb- is a leading specialist 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 -lrb- 2013-2014 -rrb- 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 .
he was born in chicago in 1969 and comes from a jerusalemite family .
he received a b.a. degree -lrb- magna cum laude -rrb- 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 .
from 2010-2013 he served as academic director of the centre for the study of muslim-jewish relations , woolf institute , cambridge .
from 2005-2010 he served as special scholar in residence and coordinator of the great tafsirs of the qur ` an project -lrb- altafsir.com -rrb- 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 .
meri is the winner of the prestigious 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 fellow of the center .
most of his published articles and books deal with various aspects of islamic history , civilization , interfaith relations and ritual practice .
