Uriya shavit biography of michael

Uriya Shavit (Hebrew: אוריה שביט, born June 1975) is an Israeli author and Full Professor at Tel Aviv University (TAU). He specializes in research on Islamic law, theology, and politics in modern Islam, Muslim minorities in the West, processes of liberalization and democratization in the world, and the Haredi society in Israel.

Between 2016 and 2021, he headed the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and concurrently led the Religious Studies program at Tel Aviv University. Since 2021, he has been the head of the SDU-TAU Joint Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies.^[1] In 2022, he also became the Head of the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry^[2] and the Irwin Cotler Institute for Democracy, Justice, and Human Rights.^[3]

Since 2022, Shavit has served as the editor-in-chief of the annual report on the state of antisemitism worldwide, published by the Center for Research on Contemporary European Jewryand the Irwin