Abdulla Galadari is an Associate Professor at Khalifa University of Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado and a Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Aberdeen. His academic background is entrenched in both science and religion.

He uses an interdisciplinary approach to the Qur’an, such as using the cognitive science of religion to understand the Qur’an’s authorial intent within its environmental milieu and its conversation with different audiences and traditions. In doing so, he applies models of neuropsychology and personality traits to understand the complexity of the authorial intent to provide a systematic model for its hermeneutics in light of the Qur’an’s conversation with religions and traditions during Late Antiquity.

Abdulla has authored various publications on the intersection of the cognitive science of religion, Qur’anic studies, and comparative religion in academic books, chapters, and journal articles.

He is the author of Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Between Science, History, and the Bible (2018), Metaphors of Death and Resurrection in the Qur’an: An Intertextual Approach with Biblical and Rabbinic Literature (2021), and Spiritual Meanings of the Ḥajj Rituals: A Philological Approach (2021).