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Abdullah Richard Lux
Eckerd College
Occupation
Independent Scholar
Contact
Comparative Cultures Collegium, SE 100
Eckerd College 4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg FL 33711
United States
Discipline
Language
Sub Areas
Islamic Law
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Arabic
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Lebanon
Yemen
Libya
Iraq
Islamic World
Specialties
Arabic/ TAFL
Islamic Political Thought And Theology
Islamic Philosophy, 'ilm Al-kalaam, Usul Al-fiqh,
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
English (native)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2007 | Middle East Center | University of Utah
MA | 2000 | MELAC | Columbia University
BA | 1991 | Art History | Stanford University
Abstracts
Pattern recognition of the foreign learner (FL) in teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL); a cognitive and neurolingquistic approach to the efficacy of phonological-morphological correlations, a Doctrines of al-ajal al-maḥtūm and al-ajal al-makhrūm or al-ajal al-muʿallaq: the problem of fixed and variable ajal (terms/lifespans) in contemporary Shi‘ite thought Imagining Iraq: CALL frontiers, game engines and pedagogical implications for TAFL