Josef 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. He is a faculty member at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
'This volume [is] an important contribution to the growing literature on Muslim-Jewish relations' - Mark R. Cohen, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, Emeritus, Princeton University, USA 'Josef Meri and thirty-five other scholars lift a reader's imagination above the current quagmire to the richness and complexities of Muslim-Jewish Relations over 13 centuries. This text is a post-modern exercise confronting the absolutes of power rhetoric with multiple perspectives from an ancient narrative. - Professor Joseph T. Kelley, Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College, USA