Room GF-25, Department of Arabic & Transnational Studies, New Faculty of Arts Building, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
Teaching and Research Area
Arabic Literature & Criticism
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)
Research Affiliations
Department of Arabic & Transnational Studies Research Team
Institution Based Research (IBR) 2025 Grant winner (Arabic Team)
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 Interest
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.