Dr Adrian Gully
Arabic and Islamic Studies Room 215 Tel: + 61 3 8344 8895 |
Background
Adrian Gully joined the University of Melbourne in the autumn of 2005 as Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies. He is a graduate of the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, with BA Hons (summa cum laude) in Arabic and Islamic Studies, and PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the same institution. From 2000-2005 he was the Sharjah Professor of Arabic Studies at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and has come to the University of Melbourne to develop new interests. Dr Gully has also served as Director of Studies at the Centre for Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language, University of Alexandria, Egypt, and Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He has held two major research grants, one from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, which allowed him to conduct research at the University of Bayreuth, and the other from the Leverhulme Foundation, during which he spent a year at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney. He was also the Editor of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies for three years, and has carried out various consultancy assignments. Dr Gully’s main published work to date has focused on various aspects of communication in Arab and Islamic society. In addition to the major comprehensive grammar of modern written Arabic for which he was a co-author, he has published on such topics as grammar and semantics, advertising discourse, cultural history and the social role of intellectuals in the medieval Muslim community. His current major work in progress is on epistolography in Islamic society from 11 th-15 th centuries A.D. His new teaching modules on Muslim travel and migration, Islamic feminism and human rights in the Muslim world will inform his shift in research focus.
Research Interests
- Cultural history
- Role of the Muslim intellectual
- Communication and power
- Literary culture
- Muslim women
- Tradition and modernity