Prof. Meri is a specialist in the history of interfaith relations in the Middle East in the past and present, Islamic history and civilization, and the history of religions with a focus on the Abrahamic faiths. His research interests include: Muslim-non-Muslim relations in the medieval and modern Middle East; medieval Islamic history; pilgrimage and the veneration of holy places; persons and objects in Islam, Judaism and Christianity; history and memory; and popular religion. He also has a special interest in bibliographical method having worked previously in technical services at a university library. Currently, he is an Associate at Georgetown University's Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding were he focuses his research on tolerance and co-existence.
Prof. Meri supervises students working on interfaith relations (Judaism-Christianity-Islam), the History of Religions, and Islamic History. He is presently Subject Editor for Islamic Civilization for Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online (RMEO) [forthcoming]. He previously served as Founding Advisory Board Member (Islamic Studies); Oxford Bibliographies On-line (2008-2010); General Editor of Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (2002-2005); Series Editor of the Great Tafsirs of the Holy Qur'an series (Fons Vitae Publishers, USA with Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan; 2005-2010); Section Editor (Islam) of Wiley-Blackwell's Religion Compass (2005-2010); Book Review Editor (Medieval Islamic and Jewish Studies) of Speculum, published by the Medieval Academy of America (2007-2012); and Founding Editor of Intertwined Worlds (2010-2013), an e-platform dedicated to the academic study of Muslim-Jewish and Muslim-Jewish-Christian Relations.
Georgetown University
2021 – PresentCIS, HBKU
2019 – PresentCenter for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
2019 – PresentCenter for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
2018 – PresentCenter for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College
2014 – 2018Department of Studies of Islam in the Contemporary World, University of Jordan
2014 – 2015Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
2013 – 2014Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University
2011 – 2014Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University
2011 – 2013Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, Woolf Institute, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University
2010 – 2013Tafsir and Hadith Unit, Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, Amman
2004 – PresentInstitute of Ismaili Studies, London
2002 – 2004Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California
1999 – 2002Near Eastern Studies, University of California
1999 – 2002Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas, Damascus
1996 – 1997Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1994American Research Center, Cairo
1994University of Oxford
1999State University of New York
1995University of California
1992New York: Oxford University Press.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge.
2017Leiden: Brill.
2017Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge.
2016Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2003In Meri, J. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations. London: Routledge. 15-33.
2016In Stroumsa, G., & Silverstein, A. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 499-517.
2015In Islam, Knowledge, and Innovation. Washington, D.C.: British Council and the Prince Alwalid bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge University. 15-16. http://www.britishcouncil.org/new/PageFiles/16695/IslamKnowledgeInnovation. pdf
2012Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge. 1:xii-xiii. http://cw.routledge.com/ref/middleages/Islamic/introduction.html
2005In Howard- Johnston, J., & Hayward, P. A (Eds.), The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Contribution of Peter Brown. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 263-86.
1999Speculum, 90.4.
2015Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (Taylor & Francis).
2015Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.
2013Perspectives (Woolf Institute), Spring 2012. 22-25. http://www.academia.edu/attachments/15593188/download_file
2012Journal of Arabian Studies, 2. (2). 235-237.
2012Journal of Islamic Studies.
2012Past and Present, Supplement 5. Oxford University Press. 97-120. http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/gtq014?ijkey=yYtaRFal9BaOqcL&...
2010Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue, 5. 237-64.
1999Al-‘Usūr al-Wustā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists. 34-35, 44.
1999Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue, 5.46-69.
1999In Haleem, M. A., & Shah, M. A. (Eds.), The I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization. London: I.B. Tauris.
2019In Esposito, J. (Ed.), Oxford Islamic Studies Online.
2016Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford University Press.
2014In Oxford Bibliographies On-line. Oxford University Press.
2010Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 42. http://www.academia.edu/attachments/758882/download_file
2009In Oxford Bibliographies On-line. Oxford University Press.
2009Islamica Magazine. 15.
2006Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (2 vols.). Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge. 1:98.
2005Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 34. 14-19.
2000Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Winter 1999. 164-68.
1999