Uriya Shavit
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Uriya Shavit (Hebrew: אוריה שביט, born 22 June 1975) is an
Israeli author and full professor of Islamic studies at
Tel Aviv University (TAU). Since 2016, he has served as the head of TAU’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Graduate Program in Religious Studies. Since 2021, Shavit serves as head of the
Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry as well as co-head of the
Shandong-Tel Aviv Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Shavit also worked as a senior staff writer and editor for “
Haaretz” and other Israeli newspapers and authored novels and books for young readers. He specializes in the study of contemporary
Islamic law,
theology, and
politics, as well as the study of Muslim minorities in the West.
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