Mark S. Wagner
Professor of Arabic
Ph.D., New York University, 2004
Phone: 225-578-2536
E-mail: mwagner@lsu.edu
Office: 304 Hodges Hall
Area of Interest
Classical Arabic literature, Arabic vernacular literature, Islamic law, Muslim-Jewish relations.
Recent Teaching
Arabic 3101, Advanced Arabic I
Arabic 3102, Advanced Arabic II
Honors 2013, (The 20th Century): Arab and Jew in Literatue and Film
Religious Studies/International Studies 3786: The Religion of Islam
Awards & Honors
David J. Kriskovich Distinguished Professorship (2011-2013)
SIAS Summer Institute fellowship, AIYS research grant, National Foundation for Jewish
Culture dissertation fellowship.
National Jewish Book Award Finalist (2nd place)鈥擲ephardic Culture (2015)
Fellow, Institut d鈥櫭﹖udes avanc茅es de Paris (Spring 2017)
Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic
Studies (2018-2019)
Selected Publications
Books
Jews and Islamic law in Early 20th Century Yemen (Indiana University Press, 2015)
Like Joseph in Beauty: Yemeni Vernacular Poetry and Arab-Jewish Symbiosis (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, 2009)
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
鈥溾赌�Hukm bi-ma anzala 鈥檒lah鈥�: The Forgotten Prehistory of an Islamist Slogan鈥� Journal of Qur鈥檃nic Studies 18.1(2016):1-27.
鈥淭he Problem of Non-Muslims Who Insult the Prophet Muhammad鈥� Journal of the American
Oriental Society 135.3 (2015): 529-540.
鈥�Halakhah Through the Lens of Shari鈥榓h: The Case of the Kuhlani Synagogue in San鈥榓鈥�, 1933-1944,鈥�
in Michael Laskier and Yaacov Lev, eds., The Convergence of Judaism and Islam: The Religious, Scientific and Cultural Dimensions, University Press of Florida (refereed), 2011, pp. 126-146.
鈥淛ewish Mysticism on Trial in a Muslim Court: A Fatwa on The Zohar鈥擸emen 1914,鈥� in
Die Welt des Islams - International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam, 47.2, 2007, pp. 207-231.
鈥淭he Debate Between Coffee and Qat in Yemeni Literature,鈥� in Middle Eastern Literatures, 8.2, 2005, pp. 121-151.