Dr. Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer
Dr. Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer is a senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Her Ph.D dealt with Islamic law of prayer.
Dr. Shemer’s areas of specialization are: Islamic studies, Relations between Judaism and Islam and political Islamic movement such as Hamas and the Islamic movement in Israel.
Her Book: Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi on the Jews, Judaism and Israel, was published by Routledge, and she publishes articles in her field at various academic platforms.
Selected Publications
Books
Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer and Shaul Bartal, Hamas and Ideology: Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī on the Jews, Zionism and Israel. New York: Routledge, 2017, 242 pages.
http://tinyurl.com/27z2kx6m
Bartal, Shaul & Rubinstein-Shemer, Nesya. The Mind of Hamas: Jews, Zionism & Israel in Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi's Thought (Haifa: Pardes, 2022) [Hebrew].
Articles in Periodicals (referred) and Book Chapter
“Larger than Life: Prayer during Wartime in Islamic Law”, Studia Orientalia, 112 (2012), pp. 103-126.
“New Forms of Marriage in Modern Islam: Islamic Discourse regarding ‘Friend Marriage’ and ‘Facebook Marriage’”. Hamizrah Hehadash (2014), pp. 95-108 [Hebrew].
“Islamic Law and Political Ideology: A Case Study of Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwῑ’s Renewed Interpretation of Islamic Prayer Laws”. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 33:1 (December 2015), pp. 52-66.
“Qaradawi’s View on the Israeli Palestinian Conflict”. Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, 20 (April 2016), pp. 81-100.
“Islamic Law’s Flexibility for Muslim Minorities in the West: Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwῑ on Friday Prayer and the Concept of Wasaṭiyya”. The Maghreb Review, 42:1 (2017), pp. 48-59.
"Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaraḍawi: Anti-Zionist or Anti-Semite?". Israel Affairs, 23:5 (2017), pp. 794-807.
“'Observe the Prayers and the Middle Prayer': Jewish and Christian Origins of Q. 2: 238", ZDMG: Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 168:2 (2018), pp. 353- 372.
"’If the Scorpion Comes back, we will Wait for it with a Shoe’: Sheikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī’s Theo-Political Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration." In: Lange Armin et al. (eds.) An End to Antisemitism! (De Gruyter: 2021), pp. 321- 333.
"The Qur'anic Mary in the Light of Rabbinic Texts". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 32:2 (2021), pp. 129-158.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2021.1909302
"‘God’s Most Beautiful Name is Peace’: Rabbi Menachem Froman’s Vision of Inter-Religious Peace between Israelis and Palestinians". Israel Affairs, 27:3 (2021), pp. 493-516.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2021.1915540
"Sheikh Ahmad al-Raysuni on Peace Agreements with Israel". Israel Affairs, 27:6 (2021), pp. 1200-1222.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2021.1993006
"Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice." Mediterranean Studies 29:1 (2021), pp. 124–126.
Rubinstein-Shemer, Nesya & Maghen, Zeev. "Jews for ʿAlī: Rabbinic Support for the Waṣiyy in Majlisī’s Biḥār al-Anwār". Medieval Encounters, 28:4 (2022), pp. 311-335. (contribution: author)
https://doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12340146
"Fatwās for an Unprecedented Minority: Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr and the fiqh of Medical Transplantation for Muslims Living in Israel". Islamic Law and Society, 1 (2022), pp. 1-33.
https://relbib.de/Record/1843248255
Rubinstein-Shemer, Nesya & Flamer, Netanel. "Projective Psychological Warfare (PPW): An Analysis of Hamas Hebrew Videoclips as Part of Its Propaganda Campaign against Israel (2007–2014)". Middle Eastern Studies (2023), pp. 1-15. (contribution: author)
https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2186859
“Because of Your Beard I Can Talk to You”: Rabbi Froman as Crisis Mediator between Israelis and Palestinians". Religions, 14:4 (2023), p. 483.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14040483
“'You Are All Soldiers in the Battle against the Corona Virus and Your Commander Is the Prophet Muḥammad': The Fatwās of Sheikh Rāʾid Badīr Regarding COVID-19". Religions, 14:1 (2023), p. 98.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14010098
“Islamist Legal Ruling in the ‘Post-Qaradhawi’ Era: Fatwas Issued by Sheikh Ahmad al-Raysuni, on Visiting al-Aqsa and Participation by Israeli Arabs in the Knesset Elections”. Journal for Interdisciplinary Middle Eastern Studies, 6 (2020), pp. 69-98.
DOI: 10.26351/JIMES/6-2/5
“'Close but no Cigar': Hamas's Psychological Warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023”. Middle Eastern Studies (2024), pp. 1–17.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2024.2355159
Schuz, Odeya, and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer. "Attitudes of Jewish and Muslim Religious Leaders Towards the Declaration of Principles as a Test Case for Judaism and Islam between Peace and Conflict." Religions15:10 (2024), p. 1193.
Hitman, Gadi, and Nesya Rubinstein Shemer. "Arab Israeli Mix: Low-scale Protests and the Increase in Terrorism Following the Outbreak of the Swords of Iron War". Contemporary Review of the Middle East(2025).
Schuz, Odeya, and Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer. "صنع السلام بين الاسرائيليين والفلسطينيين وفق أراء الحاخامات: موقف الحاخام عوبديا يوسف أنموذجا.". International Journal of Civilizations Studies & Tolerance Sciences2:1 (2025), pp. 53-61