Supervision

Research community

Supervision & mentorship

I supervise doctoral, postdoctoral, and graduate research across Islamic history, religious change, kinship, law, cultural brokerage, and religion in contemporary society. These projects form an intellectual community linking historical inquiry with questions of religious and social life.

4 current researchersDoctoralPostdoctoral

Current researchers

Doctoral research

Nacima Kerouad

Doctoral researcher · 2025–present

Co-supervision with Dr. David Barak-Gorodetsky

The Political Selection of Religious Frames: The Abraham Accords and the Aftermath of October 7, 2023

Omri Shamir

Doctoral researcher · 2025–present

Between Gaza and Manila: Identity, Hegemony, and Resistance among Muslim Minorities in Southeast Asia through the Lens of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict — A Comparative Study of Singapore, the Philippines, and Thailand (2000–2026)

Postdoctoral research

Dr. Maayan Raveh

Postdoctoral researcher · HLRS · 2021–present

Between and Betwixt: Palestinian-Christian Thoughts, Navigating between Liberation Theology and the Muslim Brothers

Dr. Noor Falah

Postdoctoral researcher · HLRS · 2024–present

Islamic Theology, Law, and Society in Israel

Completed supervision

Doctoral researchers

2014–2018

Ayman Ibrahim

Co-supervision with Prof. Avner Giladi

Topoi of Conversion to Islam in Early Islamic Historiography

2014–2021

Avraham Yoskovitch

Co-supervision with Dr. Moshe Lavee and Prof. Avner Giladi

Apostasy in Classical and Medieval Rabbinic Sources

Master’s research

2018–2021

Marwa Khatib

Representations of Women’s Agency in Classical Islamic Narratives

Former fellows

Postdoctoral researchers

2013–2014

Dr. Keren Abbou-Hershkovits

Religiously Mixed Families in the Early Islamic Period

2017–2018

Dr. Moshe Yagur

The Cultural Brokerage of Muslim Converts

2017–2018

Dr. Regev Nathanson

Theorising the Cultural Brokerage of Converts to Islam; Digital Processing of Data on Converts to Islam

2017–2019

Dr. Massimiliano Borroni

Biographical Dictionaries as a Source on Conversion to Islam; Digital Processing of Data on Converts to Islam

2021–2023

Dr. Chris PreJean

Fulbright Scholar

Constructing Non-Muslims as Subjects of Islamic Law in Eighth- to Tenth-Century Iraq

2023–2024

Dr. Eugenio Garosi

Azrieli Fellow

Names between Faiths: Conversion to Islam as Reflected in Onomastic Patterns and Scribal Practices in Early Islamic Documentary Archives

Prospective researchers

Enquiries from prospective doctoral and postdoctoral researchers whose work intersects with these fields are welcome.

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