# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-w-meri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:48:45.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-w-meri"
name: "Josef W. Meri"
slug: "josef-w-meri"
description: "Josef (Yousef) Waleed Meri is an American historian of Interfaith Relations in the Middle East and the history of religion."
tagline: "American historian"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969-12-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.41
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.137689333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefmeri/"
    handle:    "josefmeri"
sources:
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_W._Meri"
    title: "Josef W. Meri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B9%D9%8A"
    title: "يوسف مرعي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B9%D9%89"
    title: "يوسف مرعى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B9%DB%8C"
    title: "یوسف ولید مرعی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_W._Meri"
    title: "Josef W. Meri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_W._Meri"
    title: "Josef W. Meri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Meri"
    title: "Josef Meri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3184043"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump