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)âSephardic Culture (2015)
Fellow, Institut dâĂ©tudes avancĂ©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
ââ¶ÄHukm bi-ma anzala âllahâ: The Forgotten Prehistory of an Islamist Sloganâ Journal of Qurâanic Studies 18.1(2016):1-27.
âThe Problem of Non-Muslims Who Insult the Prophet Muhammadâ Journal of the American
Oriental Society 135.3 (2015): 529-540.
âHalakhah Through the Lens of Shariâah: The Case of the Kuhlani Synagogue in Sanâaâ, 1933-1944,â
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.
âJewish Mysticism on Trial in a Muslim Court: A Fatwa on The ZoharâYemen 1914,â in
Die Welt des Islams - International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam, 47.2, 2007, pp. 207-231.
âThe Debate Between Coffee and Qat in Yemeni Literature,â in Middle Eastern Literatures, 8.2, 2005, pp. 121-151.