Background
He was born in Chicago in 1969 and comes from a Jerusalemite family.
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Josef Josef W. Meri
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Education
University of California, Berkeley.
Career
From 2013-2014 he served as eighth Allianz Visiting Professor of Islamic Studies (2013-2014) at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He was a Fellow of Saint Edmund"s College, Cambridge, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree (Magna cum laude) from University of California, Berkeley in 1992, an Master of Arts degree from State University of New York Binghamton in 1995 and a Doctorate.Phil degree from Wolfson College, Oxford, Oxford University in 1999.
From 2005-2010 he served as Special Scholar in Residence and coordinator of the Great Tafsirs of the Qur"an project (Altafsircom) 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.
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.
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Nationality
United States -
Religion
Islam