Josef Meri is Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations, Woolf Institute, Cambridge University. Born in the United States Dr Meri hails from a Jerusalemite family. He has travelled extensively throughout the Middle East and has lived in Cairo, Damascus, Jerusalem and from 2005-2010 in Amman, where he oversaw a major Qur'anic exegesis project at the Jordanian Royal Court. He previously held visiting appointments at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Sectional Editor of Wiley-Blackwell's online journal, Religion Compass.

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Introduction - Josef (Yousef) Meri

1. Historical Themes: Medieval - Josef (Yousef) Meri

2. Historical Themes: Modern - Orit Bashkin and Daniel J. Schroeter

3. Scripture and Exegesis - Shari Lowin and Nevin Reda

4. Theology - Aaron Hughes

5. Medicine - Paulina B. Lewicka and Gad Freudenthal

6. Literature (Medieval) - Arie Schippers

7. Literature (Modern) - Masha Itzhaki and Soubhi Boustani

8. Islamic and Jewish Legal Traditions - Judith Frishman and Umar Ryad

9. Philosophy - Oliver Leaman

10. Education - Moshe Sokolow and Matthew Wilkinson

11. Mysticism - Aaron Hughes

12. Communities and Identity - Ben Gidley and Nasar Meer

13. Constructive Dialogue -Akbar Ahmed and Edward Kessler

14. Palestinian-Israeli Conflict - Donna Divine

15. Women - Ibtissam Bouachrine and Judith L. Goldstein

16. Nationalism-Arab - Yousef Choueiri

17. Nationalism-Jewish - Yair Wallach

18. Antisemitism and Islamophobia - Ivan Kalmar and Tariq Ramadan

19. The Holocaust - Peter Wien

20. The Nakba - Alexander Flores

21. Cinema - Dinah Stillman and Aomar Boum

22. Music - Edwin Seroussi

23. Art - Aaron Rosen and Yasser Tabbaa

24. Food and Foodways - David Waines and Sami Zubaida

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