Ahmed Al‐shahi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4892536 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmed Al‐shahi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmed |
| FAMILY NAME | Al‐shahi |
| SIGNATURE | AL SHAHI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Middle East and North African Immigrants in Europe: Current Impact; Local and National Responses
Fourteen specialists from across the European Union discuss current issues regarding Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in Europe, focusing on topics such as immigration legislation, assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, community formation, citizenship, political participation, and religious and cultural identities.This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Immigrants and Minorities
A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan * By Abdullahi A. Gallab
In this book, Dr Abdullahi Gallab, journalist and author, has charted and analysed the political development of Sudan and the role of colonialism therein. It is divided into eight chapters and twenty-nine sections, from the time of the ancient kingdoms of the country up to the present. He has relied on archival material, published sources and his own extensive and diverse observations. He uses these sources to good advantage and in order to fit i…
A. Reviews: General
THE HISTORY OF AL‐TABARI (TA'RIKH AL‐RUSUL WA ‘L‐MULUK) [An annotated translation] (Bibliotheca Persica) (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies): VOLUME VI: MUHAMMAD AT MECCA. Translated and annotated by W. MONTGOMERY WATT and M.V. McDONALD. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1988. xlvi, 178pp. VOLUME VII: THE FOUNDATION OF THE COMMUNITY [MUHAMMAD AT ALMADINA A.D. 622–626/HIJRAH‐4 A.H.]. Translated and annotated by W. MONTGOMERY WATT and M…
Popular Narrative Ballads of Modern Egypt
Knowing One Another: Shaping Islamic Anthropology
B. Reviews: General
THE HISTORY OF AL‐TABARl (TA'RIKH AL‐RUSUL WA ‘L‐MULÜK). (An annotated translation] (Bibliotheca Persica) (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies): VOLUME II: PROPHETS AND PATRIARCHS. Translated and annotated by WILLIAM M. BRINNER. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1987. xii, 207pp. VOLUME IV: THE ANCIENT KINGDOMS. Translated and annotated by MOSHE PERLMANN. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1987. xii, 205pp. THE FIRST DYNASTY OF…
The Danagla Traders of Northern Sudan: Rural Capitalism and Agricultural Development
Obituary: Dr Peter Lienhardt (1928–1986)
B. Reviews: General
i. ISLAM IN THE WORLD. By Malise Ruthven. London, Penguin Books, 1984. pp.400. £3.95. ii. ISLAM IN FOREIGN POLICY. Edited by Adeed Dawisha, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press in Association with Chatham House, 1983. pp.181 and index. £17.50. iii. BAHA'U'LLAH: THE KING OF GLORY. By Hasan Balyuzi. Oxford, George Ronald, 1980. pp.539 with photographs and 1 colour plate. £9.00. iv. THE GREAT ANATOLIAN REBELLION, 1000/1591–1611. By William J. Grisw…
The religious role of certain families among the Shaygiyya tribe of northern Sudan
The Sudan is a country of diversity and contrasts: there are Arabs and non-Arabs, Muslims and non-Muslims, northerners and southerners, easterners and westerners, nomads and sedentary agriculturists, rural people and urban dwellers, mystics and fundamentalists, rich and poor, the educated and the illiterate -a sizeable proportion of the population. These people share a vast geographical entity and have a common national identity, but, within this…
B. Reviews: General
i. SHADOWS ON THE SAND: THE MEMOIRS OP SIR GAWAIN BELL. By (SIR) GAWAIN BELL. London, C.Hurst/New York, St Martins, 1983. pp.xiv, 258, 2 maps and index. El3.50. ii. THE SUDAN MEMOIRS OF CARL CHRISTIAN GIEGLER PASHA. Edited by RICHARD HILL. Translated from the German by THIRZA KÜPPER. With a foreword by the Pasha's great‐granddaughter, HEIDI GROHA. Oxford, Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), pp. xxxii, 231, 3 maps, 12 plates. £18.00…
B. Reviews
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ARABIC LITERATURE. Volume 1: Arabic Literature to the End of the Unayyad Period. Edited by A.F.L. Beeston, T.M.Johnstone, R.B.Serjeant and G.R.Smith, pp.xvi, 547. Cambridge University Press, 1983. £37.95. AL‐MAQRIZI'S “BOOK OF CONTENTION AND STRIFE CONCERNING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BANU UMAYYA AND THE BANU HASHIM”. Translated into English, with an introduction and commentary by C.E.Bosworth. (Journal of Semitic Studies…
A Noah's Ark: The continuity of the Khatmiyya order in Northern Sudan
(1981). A Noah's Ark: the continuity of the Khatmiyya order in Northern Sudan. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Bulletin: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 13-29
Educational cross‐currents
Wisdom from the Nile
Traditional politics and a one‐party system in northern Sudan
The concern of this paper is twofold: (a) to discuss a traditional political system which is based mainly on sectarian affiliation and which has evolved through belief and experience, and (b) to make some statements about an imposed political organization which has failed to eradicate the traditional system on which it has been superimposed. It is not my intention here to discuss these matters in the Sudan as a whole; rather, I will restrict the …
Obituaries
Obituaries
Traditional politics and a one‐party system in northern Sudan
The concern of this paper is twofold: (a) to discuss a traditional political system which is based mainly on sectarian affiliation and which has evolved through belief and experience, and (b) to make some statements about an imposed political organization which has failed to eradicate the traditional system on which it has been superimposed. It is not my intention here to discuss these matters in the Sudan as a whole; rather, I will restrict the …
Educational cross‐currents
Wisdom from the Nile
A Noah's Ark: The continuity of the Khatmiyya order in Northern Sudan
(1981). A Noah's Ark: the continuity of the Khatmiyya order in Northern Sudan. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Bulletin: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 13-29
B. Reviews
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ARABIC LITERATURE. Volume 1: Arabic Literature to the End of the Unayyad Period. Edited by A.F.L. Beeston, T.M.Johnstone, R.B.Serjeant and G.R.Smith, pp.xvi, 547. Cambridge University Press, 1983. £37.95. AL‐MAQRIZI'S “BOOK OF CONTENTION AND STRIFE CONCERNING THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE BANU UMAYYA AND THE BANU HASHIM”. Translated into English, with an introduction and commentary by C.E.Bosworth. (Journal of Semitic Studies…
B. Reviews: General
i. ISLAM IN THE WORLD. By Malise Ruthven. London, Penguin Books, 1984. pp.400. £3.95. ii. ISLAM IN FOREIGN POLICY. Edited by Adeed Dawisha, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press in Association with Chatham House, 1983. pp.181 and index. £17.50. iii. BAHA'U'LLAH: THE KING OF GLORY. By Hasan Balyuzi. Oxford, George Ronald, 1980. pp.539 with photographs and 1 colour plate. £9.00. iv. THE GREAT ANATOLIAN REBELLION, 1000/1591–1611. By William J. Grisw…
The religious role of certain families among the Shaygiyya tribe of northern Sudan
The Sudan is a country of diversity and contrasts: there are Arabs and non-Arabs, Muslims and non-Muslims, northerners and southerners, easterners and westerners, nomads and sedentary agriculturists, rural people and urban dwellers, mystics and fundamentalists, rich and poor, the educated and the illiterate -a sizeable proportion of the population. These people share a vast geographical entity and have a common national identity, but, within this…
B. Reviews: General
i. SHADOWS ON THE SAND: THE MEMOIRS OP SIR GAWAIN BELL. By (SIR) GAWAIN BELL. London, C.Hurst/New York, St Martins, 1983. pp.xiv, 258, 2 maps and index. El3.50. ii. THE SUDAN MEMOIRS OF CARL CHRISTIAN GIEGLER PASHA. Edited by RICHARD HILL. Translated from the German by THIRZA KÜPPER. With a foreword by the Pasha's great‐granddaughter, HEIDI GROHA. Oxford, Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), pp. xxxii, 231, 3 maps, 12 plates. £18.00…
Obituary: Dr Peter Lienhardt (1928–1986)
The Danagla Traders of Northern Sudan: Rural Capitalism and Agricultural Development
B. Reviews: General
THE HISTORY OF AL‐TABARl (TA'RIKH AL‐RUSUL WA ‘L‐MULÜK). (An annotated translation] (Bibliotheca Persica) (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies): VOLUME II: PROPHETS AND PATRIARCHS. Translated and annotated by WILLIAM M. BRINNER. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1987. xii, 207pp. VOLUME IV: THE ANCIENT KINGDOMS. Translated and annotated by MOSHE PERLMANN. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1987. xii, 205pp. THE FIRST DYNASTY OF…
A. Reviews: General
THE HISTORY OF AL‐TABARI (TA'RIKH AL‐RUSUL WA ‘L‐MULUK) [An annotated translation] (Bibliotheca Persica) (SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies): VOLUME VI: MUHAMMAD AT MECCA. Translated and annotated by W. MONTGOMERY WATT and M.V. McDONALD. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1988. xlvi, 178pp. VOLUME VII: THE FOUNDATION OF THE COMMUNITY [MUHAMMAD AT ALMADINA A.D. 622–626/HIJRAH‐4 A.H.]. Translated and annotated by W. MONTGOMERY WATT and M…
Popular Narrative Ballads of Modern Egypt
Knowing One Another: Shaping Islamic Anthropology
Middle East and North African Immigrants in Europe: Current Impact; Local and National Responses
Fourteen specialists from across the European Union discuss current issues regarding Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in Europe, focusing on topics such as immigration legislation, assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, community formation, citizenship, political participation, and religious and cultural identities.This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Immigrants and Minorities
A Civil Society Deferred: The Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan * By Abdullahi A. Gallab
In this book, Dr Abdullahi Gallab, journalist and author, has charted and analysed the political development of Sudan and the role of colonialism therein. It is divided into eight chapters and twenty-nine sections, from the time of the ancient kingdoms of the country up to the present. He has relied on archival material, published sources and his own extensive and diverse observations. He uses these sources to good advantage and in order to fit i…
History (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · African history and culture analysis (5 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (4 works)