Biographical Note

 

Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi

Ahmed Al-Shahi, MA, MLitt, DPhil (Oxon), has been a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College since 1996. His specialisation is Social Anthropology with specific references to Sudan and the Middle East.  His fields of interest are economic development, social differentiation, sectarian politics, oral traditions and immigrants. Dr Al-Shahi was a University Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum from 1965-70 taught at the Institute of Social Anthropology and the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, between 1970-75. He was a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle from 1975-1996. Dr Al-Shahi has published widely on Sudan, the Middle East, Islam and the Gulf Shaikhdoms. Among his publications (as author, editor and co-editor): The Arab World and North Africa (Verona, 1973), Wisdom from the Nile (Oxford, 1978), Islam in the Modern World (Croom Helm, 1983), Themes from Northern Sudan (Ithaca, 1986), The Diversity of the Muslim Community: anthropological Essays in Memory of Peter Lienhardt (Ithaca, 1987), Disorientation, Society in a Flux: Kuwait in the 1950s (Ithaca, 1992) and Shaikhdoms of Eastern Arabia (Palgrave for St Antony's College, 2001).

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