Goldziher Prize for former Research Fellow

2014-03-18

St Edmund’s College is pleased to congratulate Professor Dr Josef (Yousef) Meri on the award of the 2014 Goldziher Prize in Jewish-Muslim Relations. Josef was a Research Fellow at St Edmund’s College and worked in the Woolf Institute from 2010 to 2013. He is now working at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany. The prize is a $25,000 annual award for work that contributes significantly to reverence, understanding and collaboration in common moral purposes between Jews and Muslims. The award is named for the 19th century Jewish Islamicist, Ignac Goldziher. Further information…