Dr Abdus-Salam Babatunde Ambali
Lecturer 1
Arabic
Abdus-Salam Babatunde Ambali is an Arabic Research Fellow with 10 years of experience in research activities related to Arabic Language and Literature with special focus on the works of Arabic scholars in Yorubaland, Nigeria. He is presently a Lecturer in the Department of Arabic & Transnational Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, Nigeria with 6 years university teaching experience. He holds Ph.D. in Literature in Arabic and Professional Diploma in Education. He teaches Arabic language and Literature. His research majorly focuses on literary productivities of the Yoruba Arabic scholars that experiences multidimensional influence of Social and Developmental Issues. He has to his credit twenty-one publications in reputable outlets covering journals, chapters in books and Books. He is also a member of many professional bodies within and outside Nigeria.
Qualifications
- Ph.D. (Arabic) University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria 2018
- M.A. (Arabic) University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria 2010
- B.A. Hons. (Arabic) Second Class Upper, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria 2003
- Senior Islamic School Certificate, A.B.U. Zaria, Nigeria 1996
Professional Affiliations
- Academic Society for Arabic Language and Literature in Nigeria (ASALLIN)
- Nigeria Association of Teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies (NATAIS)
- African Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, & Competence Building System (AFRICALICS)
- Teacher Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN)
Undergraduate Teaching
- ARA 101 Grammar 1
- ARA 128 Language Drill
- ARA 143 BEGINNERS’ ARABIC READER
- ARA 223 Arabic Composition II
- ARA 234 Introduction to Translation Study
- ARA 242 Arabic Reader II
- ARA 321 Arabic Literature of the Early Abbasid Period
- ARA 324 Art and Practice of Translation
- ARA 329 Arabic Lexicography
- ARA 421 Arabic Literature of Post-Classical Period
- ARA 426 Modern Arabic Literature in Nigeria
- ARA 432 Arabic Literature in Spain
- ARA 144 Beginners’ Arabic Reading II
Postgraduate Teaching
- ALA 801 Research Methodology
- ALA Arabic Rhetoric
- ALI 808 Arabic Drama
Research Interests
- Ambali A. B. (2020) التّوجيه التّربوي في الشّعر العربي النّيجيري: قصيدة "محاربة الغشّ" لعثمان إدريس الكنكاوي أنموذجا )Guidance and Counselling in Nigerian Arabic Poetry: The Case of Usman Idrees Al-kankawi`s Poem on Examination Malpractices (PDE project submitted to Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Nigeria.
- Ambali A. B. (2018) الشعر الاجتماعي العربي في بلاد يوربا، نيجيريا من 1960 إلى 2013م: دراســة تحليلـيّــة (An Analytical Study of Arabic Social Poetry in Yorubaland, Nigeria 1960 – 2013 C.E.( Ph.D. Thesis submitted to Department of Arabic, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
- Ambali A. B. (2010) دراســــــــــــــة فنّيـــة للظـــواهر الأخلاقية في شعر عيسى ألبي أبوبكر (An Artistic Study of Moral Phenomena in the Poetry of cIsa Alabi Abubakar) M.A. Project Work, submitted to the Department of Arabic, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
- Ambali A. B. (2003) الــــــــــــــدّراســـــــــــــــــة النــــــــــــــــــقديـــــــــــــــــــــــة للشعر الرثـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــاء لأحـــــــــــمــــــــــــــد شـــــــــــــــــــــوقي (The Critical Study of Elegies of Ahmad Shawqi) B.A. Long Essay submitted to the Department of Arabic, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
Research Affiliations
- Department of Arabic & Transnational Studies Research Team
- Institution Based Research (IBR) 2025 Grant winner (Arabic Team)
Links to Publications
Get in Touch
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Office Address
Room GF-25, Department of Arabic & Transnational Studies, New Faculty of Arts Building, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Department of Arabic, Faculty of Arts, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
08035136157
arabic@unilorin.edu.ng