Josef W. Meri

Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri ( Yūsuf Walīd Marʿī) is an American historian of Interfaith Relations in the Middle East and the history of religion.

Career

He is a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University, Qatar. He is also an Associate of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Meri was a Senior Associate of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College which closed in 2020.

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 LMU Munich. He was also a Fellow of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, Cambridge University, and a visiting fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University.

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.