Dr Abdullah Saeed is currently the Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also Advisor to the Studies in Interreligious Relations in Plural Societies Programme & Peter Lim (Visiting) Professor of Peace Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). At RSIS in T2, Abdullah Saeed teaches Islam, Diversity and the Religious Other. Among his recent published books are: Contemporary Approaches to the Qurʾan and its Interpretation in Iran (co-authored with Ali Akbar, 2019); Islam and Human Rights (2018); Reading the Qur’an in the Twenty-First Century (2014); Islamic Political Thought and Governance (edited, 2011); The Qur’an: An Introduction (2008).
