Khidir Abdelkarim Ahmed

Khidir Abdelkarim Ahmed (born January 28, 1947 in Kosti ; † March 27, 2012 in Khartoum ) was a Sudanese archaeologist .

Life

Khidir A. Ahmed studied archeology and anthropology in Khartoum and Cambridge . He received his doctorate in Cambridge in 1983 with a thesis on Meroitic settlement archeology . After teaching at the University of Khartoum, he was visiting professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1999 and again from 2002–2003 . After returning to Sudan, he briefly worked at Shendi University. In 2005 he became a professor at the Nilein University of Khartoum and the first director of the newly established Institute of Archeology, which was founded largely on his initiative. He headed this institute until his death in 2012.

Khidir A. Ahmed worked in the Butana , doing rescue archaeological work as part of the construction of the dam on the 4th cataract and most recently at Sabaloga . His research was characterized by a sociological approach that also included non-sedentary economic concepts as elements of cultural education, as well as the classification of Sudan archeology in a pan-African context.

In addition to his academic work, Khidir A. Ahmed appeared several times as a critic of Islamism and the Sudanese government, especially in connection with the forced relocation of Manasir in the course of the construction of the Merowe Dam.

Publications (selection)

• Meroitic Settlement in the Central Sudan. An Analysis of Sites in the Nile Valley and the Western Butana . (= Cambridge Monographs in African Archeology 8; BAR International Series 197.) Oxford 1984 (= dissertation).

literature

• Intisar S. Elzein: Khidir Abdelkarim Ahmed - 1947-2012 . In: Sudan & Nubia 16, 2012, pp. 159–160.
• Khidir Abdelkarim Ahmed (1947-2012). In: The ancient Sudan. Announcements of the Sudan Archaeological Society in Berlin 23, 2012, p. 151 ( PDF, 2.7 MB ).

Web links

• Obituary of the Greek Norwegian Archaeological Mission to Sudan with picture