Dr Abdul-Samad Abdullah
Arabic and Islamic Studies Room 217 Tel: + 61 3 8344 5672 |
Background
Abdul-Samad Abdullah obtained his BA, MA and PhD in Islamic Studies and Arabic Language and Literature from Umm al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia. Before coming to the University of Melbourne, Abdul-Samad lectured at the International Islamic University in Malaysia.
Research Interests
Most recently Abdul-Samad has been working in the field of Arabic poetry of West Africa and in Quranic narratives. In the field of West African Arabic poetry he focuses especially on the intertext and allusion while he focuses in Quranic narratives on the repetitions using the inertextual analysis. His research interests include modern and classical Arabic literature, Arabic rhetoric and stylistics; teaching Arabic for specific purposes, West African Arabic literature, Modern Islamic thought, Quranic exegesis and Islam in West Africa.