Moshe Yagur is a social historian of the medieval Middle East. He is a senior lecturer at the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar Ilan University. He is studying the history of Jewish communities in Palestine, Greater-Syria (a-Sham) and the larger Islamic Middle East, and their relations and interactions with other confessional communities.

His research examines inter-religious interaction from various aspects: conversion, polemics, daily life in urban contexts, and pilgrimage. He uses his paleographic skills in deciphering Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts from the Cairo Geniza and from other manuscripts collections, augmented with contemporaneous sources and material evidence.

Before joining Bar Ilan University, Yagur was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2022-2025), at the Zvi Yavetz School of History and Regional Studies at Tel Aviv University (2020-2021), at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben Gurion University in the Negev (2019-2020), at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Haifa (2017-2018), and a Fulbright fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan (2018-2019).