Josef W. Meri
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Dr. Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri (born 1969) is a leading specialist in Islam in the pre-modern period, Islamic cultural and social history and interfaith relations. He is currently Fellow and Special Scholar in Residence at the Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman which is under the patronage of the Jordanian Royal Court. He received a B.A. (Magna cum laude) from University of California, Berkeley in 1992, an M.A. from State University of New York Binghamton in 1995 and a D.Phil. from Wolfson College, Oxford, Oxford University in 1999.
He has published numerous articles and books dealing with various aspects of Islamic history and civilization and ritual practice.
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- The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) (ISBN 0-19-925078-2).
- (ed. with F. Daftary) Culture and Memory in Medieval Islam (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003) (ISBN 1-86064-859-2).
- (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) (ISBN 0-87850-169-X).
- (ed.) Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (New York: Routledge, 2006) (ISBN 0-415-96690-6).
