Dr. Ido Shahar
Department of Middle Eastern History
Email: idoshah@gmail.com
Tel: 04-8240671
Fax: 04-8249712
Research Areas
Islamic Law, Anthropology of Law, Modern Egypt, Palestinian Society, Medieval
agrarian societies
Higher Education
Period of
Study
1994-1996
1997-2000
2001-2006
Name of Institution
and Department
BGU, Middle East
Studies, Behavioral
Sciences
HUJI, Sociology and
Anthropology
BGU, Middle East
Studies
Degree
BA
Year of Approval of
Degree
1996
MA
2000
Ph.D.
2006
Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
Dates
2006-2007
Name of Institution, Department and Host
TAU, Sociology and Anthropology
(Supervisor: Prof. Dan Rabinowitz)
2007-2008
HUJI, Sociology and Anthropology
(Supervisor: Prof. Tamar Elor)
2009-2010
University of Oxford, Oxford Centre for Sociolegal Studies
School of History, Queen Mary University of
London (Supervisor: Dr. Yossef Rapoport)
Department of Middle East History, University
of Haifa
2009-2011
2012 onward
Rank/Position
Post-doctoral fellow
(Yonathan Shapiro
Fellowship)
Post-doctoral fellow
(Golda Meir
Fellowship)
Associate Fellowship
Research Fellowship
Lecturer (tenure
track)
Offices in University Academic Administration
2012-2016
In charge of Faculty Seminar, Dep. Of Middle Eastern History
Research Grants
Role in
Research
PI
CoResearchers
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PI
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Topic
Funded by
Sum
Year
Alternative Dispute
Resolution among
Arabs in Israel
Legal Pluralism
among PalestinianIsraelis: The
Interaction between
Formal and Informal
Mechanisms of
Dispute Resolution in
the Arab-Palestinian
Population of Northern
Israel
Center for
Returning
Scientists
Tami
Steinmetz
Center for
Peace, Tel
Aviv
University
55,000
NIS
20122013
25,000
NIS
20142015
Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
2006-07
Yonathan Shapiro Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, 65,000 NIS
2007-08
Golda Meir Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 62,000 NIS
2009-11
AHRC-funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship, School of History, Queen
Mary University of London £70,000
Courses Taught in Recent Years
Year
Name of Course
2005-2008
Law, Society, and
Culture in Muslim
Societies
Type of Course
Lecture/Seminar/
Workshop/High Learn Course/
Introduction Course
(Mandatory)
Lecture, Department of Middle
East Studies, BGU
Degree
BA
2005-2006
Learning Skills
2006-2008
Anthropology of
Law
Research
Methodology
Anthropology of the
Middle East
Law, Society &
Culture in Muslim
Societies
Introduction to the
ME
Social History of the
ME
Palestinian Society
2011-2012
2011-2012
2012-2013
2012-2014
2013-2015
2013-2014
2013-2015
2013-2015
2014-2015
Introductory course (mandatory),
Department of Middle East
Studies, BGU
Lecture, Faculty of Law, TAU,
HUJI
Introductory course, Department
of Middle East Studies, BGU
Lecture, MAPMES, BGU
BA
Seminar, Middle Eastern History,
Haifa
BA
Targil
BA
Class+ Targil
BA
Seminar
MA
Egypt in the Modern
Era
Islamic Law
Pro-seminar
BA
Seminar
MA
Israel in the Middle
East (with Prof.
Eppel)
Lecture
BA
BA &
MA
BA
MA
Peer Reviews for Journals
Islamic Law and Society
JESHO
Journal of Levantine Studies
Israel Law review
Hamizrah Hehadash
Political and Legal Anthropology Review
PUBLICATIONS
Authored Books
* Shahar, I. (2015). Legal pluralism in the holy city: Competing courts, forum
shopping, and institutional dynamics in Jerusalem. London: Ashgate.
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues
1. Shahar, I. (ed.). (2002-2004). Jama'a: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of
the Middle East, Ben Gurion University. Vols. 9-12 (in Hebrew). V.
2. Agmon, I. and Shahar, I. (eds.). (2008) Special issue of Islamic Law and Society
(Volume 15, 1). V.
*3. Sartori, P. and Shahar, I. (eds.). (Oct. 2012) Muslim legal pluralism under colonial
rule, double theme issue of Journal of the Economic and Social History of the
Orient (volume 55, 4-5). V.
Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Shahar, I. (1997). Trilemma in court: The shari’a court in Beer-Sheva as a
convergence point of three law systems. Jama’a 1, 11-35 [in Hebrew]. V.
2. Shahar, I. (2004). Modernizer and guardian of tradition: The status of women in
the Israeli shari'a court of West Jerusalem. Hamizrah Hehadash 44, 195-212 [in
Hebrew]. V.
3. Shahar, I. (2008). Legal pluralism and the study of shari‘a courts. Islamic Law and
Society 15 (1), 112-141. V.
4. Agmon, I. and Shahar, I. (2008). Shifting perspectives in the study of shari'a
courts: Methodologies and paradigms. Islamic Law and Society 15 (1), 1-19. V.
5. Shahar, I. (2008). State, society and the relations between them: Implications for
the study of legal pluralism. Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (2), 417-441. V.
6. Rapoport, Y. and Shahar, I. (2012) Irrigation in medieval Islamic Fayyum: Local
control in a large scale hydraulic system. Journal of the Economic and Social
History of the Orient 55 (1), 1-31. V.
7. Sartori, P and Shahar, I. (Oct. 2012). Legal Pluralism in Muslim-Majority
Colonies: Mapping the Terrain. Journal of the Economic and Social History of
the Orient 56 (4-5): 637-663. V.
8. Shahar, I. (Dec. 2012). Legal Pluralism Incarnate: An Institutional Perspective
on Courts of Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Settings. Journal of Legal
Pluralism 65, 133-163.
9. Shahar, I. (2013). A Tale of Two Courts: How Organizational Ethnography
Can Shed New Light on Legal Pluralism. Political and Legal Anthropology
Review 36, 1: 118-137. V.
9. Shahar, I. (2015). Legal Sovereignty in Theory and Practice: A Look
at the Interrelations between the Israeli and Jordanian Shari'a Courts in
Jerusalem. MADAR: The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies [in Arabic].
Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books
1. Shahar, I. (1999). Reading and Rereading in Nations and Nationalism,” IsraeliPalestinian Student Interaction Project (pp. 99-109). Jerusalem: Konrad Adenauer
Foundation, Harry S. Truman Institute and Palestine Consultancy Group.
2. Shahar, I. (2002). Jerusalem/Al-Quds: The dialectic of the symbolic and the
material. In S.N. Eisenstadt, R. Brayer-Garb, and T. Kohavi (Eds.), Collective
identities, public sphere and political order (pp. 100-108). Jerusalem: The Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute (in Hebrew).
3. Shahar, I. (2007). Legal reform, interpretive communities, and the quest for
legitimacy: A contextual analysis of a legal circular. In R. Shaham (Ed.), Law,
custom and statute in the Muslim world: Studies in honor of Aharon Layish (pp.
198-227). Leiden: Brill.
*3b. Shahar, I. (2014). Intersecting dialogues: Alimonies, constraints and
degrees of freedom in the work of Muslim judges in Israeli shari'a courts. In
H. Herzog and A. Lapidoth-Pirila (Eds.), Theseus's Paradox: Gender,
Religion and State (pp. 283-311). Jerusalem: Van Leer and Hakibutz
Hameuhad [in Hebrew].
*4. Shahar, I. (2013). Forum shopping between civil and sharī‘a courts:
Maintenance suits in contemporary Jerusalem. In K. Benda-Beckmann, F.
Benda-Beckmann, B. Turner and M. Ramstadt (Eds.), Religion in disputes:
Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing Processes (pp. 147164). London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Entries in Encyclopedias
*1. Shahar, I. (2014). Pluralism, legal. In J. Brown (Ed.), The [Oxford] Encyclopedia
of Islam and law. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press [3000 words].
Other Publications
1. Shahar, I. (2000). Live and die as Eva Braun: The holocaust discourse in Israel as
reflected in Roee Rosen's exhibition. Resling: A Multidisciplinary Stage for Culture
7, 38-50 [in Hebrew].
2. Shahar, I. (2002). Academic literature on the Negev's bedouins in the last decade:
Trends and directions. Notes on the Bedouins 23, 40-54. [In Hebrew].
Other Works Connected with my Scholarly Field
1. (2005) Scientific editing of Beer Sheva: The Fourth City, by Eitan Cohen.
Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing (344 pp).