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  Syed Ahmed Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Syed Ahmad was a multitalented man, and his position in the judicial department left him time to be active in many fields.
Sir Syed, the foremost intellectual among the Indian Muslim population and probably the native Indian to whom the British lent the most credence, was greatly affected by the Hindi-Urdu Controversy.
Sir Syed and Aligarh by Professor Ziauddin Ahmed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syed_Ahmed_Khan   (1339 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, University Literary Club, Aligarh Muslim University, Cyberamu.com, The complete portal of Aligarh ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1845, Syed Mohammed Khan died and the responsibilities of editorship of ‘Sayyad-ul-Akhbar’ fell on the shoulders of Sir Syed.
Sir Syed, the genius that he was, saw the suicidal attitude as the doom of the community.
Sir Syed’s vision of a modern educational institution was realized with the establishment of the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh in January 1877.
www.cyberamu.com /ulc/sirsyed.php   (951 words)

  
 Pembahasan Ahmadiyyah
Pada usia lebih dari tiga-perempat abad itu, benar-benar merupakan tahun-tahun yang dijalani syed Ahmad dengan penuh pengabdian serta pengorbanan buat bangsanya.
Akan tetapi lingkungan gerak syed Ahmad Khan bukan hanya pulang-pergi kantor saja; beliau jauh daripada itu.
Dengan diagnose yang jelas itu, syed Ahmad berjuang untuk perbaikan-perbaikan yang menyeluruh.
media.isnet.org /islam/Telanjang/AkhmadKhan.html   (1205 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, one of the greatest Muslim educationists, writers and reformers, was born at Delhi in 1817.
Sir Syed was born at a time when the continued existence of Muslims in the Sub-continent as a separate entity was in serious jeopardy.
Sir Syed was nominated as Member Imperial Legislative Council in 1878 and renominated in 1881 but he resigned in 1883.
www.cybercity-online.net /pof/sir_syed_ahmad_khan.html   (384 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan [1817-1898]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The greatest Muslim reformer and statesman of the 19th Century, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was born in Delhi on October 17, 1817.
The early years of Sir Syed's life were spent in the atmosphere of the family of a Mughal noble.
Sir Syed is known as the founder of Two-Nation Theory in the modern era.
www.storyofpakistan.com /person.asp?perid=P001   (935 words)

  
 Sir Syed & Aligarh
Sir Syed had the perspicacity and fore-sightedness to realise the benefits of modern education and the wholesome effect that it would eventually have on the lot of the Subcontinent's Muslims.
Syed Ahmad Khan was the first statesman who openly denounced Hindu domination and declared that the Musalmans were a separate nation.
The services rendered by Syed Ahmad Khan in the realm of education, society and religion should not make us oblivious of the fact that he was a most distinguished and outstanding writer of Urdu and the creator of a new school of prose.
www.geocities.com /mqzaidi/archives/syed.html   (1553 words)

  
 Unflinching Resolutions
Sir Syed came form a noble middle class family of Delhi, which had served the Mughals for generations but was swift enough to read the signs of the time: Syed Ahmed himself began his career in the service of the notorious East India Company.
Syed Ahmed became well-known as well as highly controversial in the decades following the fall of the Mughal Empire because at this time he tried to reform the Muslim society of his times socially, politically, religiously, educationally as well as in matters of literary tastes.
When the Muslim Educational Conference (founded by Sir Syed) gave birth to the All India Muslim League in 1906, the political party was conceived mainly as a bridge between the British rulers and the pro-colonialist Muslims.
khurramsdesk.tripod.com /resolutions.htm   (2076 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan-Man with a Great Vision
Sir Syed was an ardent reformer and he wanted to reconcile modern scientific thought with religion by rationalistic interpretations and not by attacking basic belief.
Sir Syed finally reached to the conclusion that lack of education was the main cause of the backwardness of the community.
The aim of Sir Syed was not merely restricted to establishing a college at Aligarh but at spreading a network of Muslim Managed educational institutions throughout the length and breadth of the country.
www.irfi.org /articles/articles_401_450/sir_syed_ahmad_khanman_with_a_g.htm   (1165 words)

  
 Islamic Voice
Sir Syed was a great leader, a liberal, reformer and a thinker whose vision transcended time and space.
Sir Syed went on to say that truth was identical with nature and its laws which determined the causality of all material and non-material phenomena.
Sir Syed used nature as a close system of the universe which obeys certain laws of mechanics and Physics and conforms to a pattern and principle.
www.islamicvoice.com /february.2000/profile.htm   (1262 words)

  
 Sir Syed's Doshala Donated To Aligarh Muslim University
A doshala given to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan by the British government was donated to Aligarh Muslim University on behalf of the late Mrs.
Sir Syed, were he alive today, would have been proud of the woman who came to inherit his doshala, and perhaps some of his spirit.
Atiya Masud, nee Atiya Fatima, was the oldest daughter of Mirza Mohammad Said and Zahra Mohammedi Begum - the granddaughter of Syed Hamid, the elder son of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.
www.twf.org /bio/AMasud.html   (1310 words)

  
 Sir Syed Institute   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sir Syed Institute is in pursuit of excellence and provides high quality quality education.
Sir Syed Institute for Technical studies is a prestigious project of Cannanore District Muslim Educational Association (CDMEA) which runs Sir Syed College and Keyi Sahib Training College,Sir Syed high School.
Sir Syed Institute for Technical studies, Taliparamba is a Muslim Minority Institution established in 2002 by Cannanore District Muslim Educational Association.
www.sirsyedinstitute.com   (128 words)

  
 About Us: Sir Ziauddin Ahmed. Ziauddin Medical University.
SIR ZIAUDDIN AHMED was born in 1877 in the picturesque town of Meerut in India.
Sir Ziauddin Ahmed did his Bachelor of Arts degree with distinction in 1895 from M.A.O. College, Aligarh, Master of Arts in Mathematics from Calcutta, and Allahabad Universities in the year 1897 and 1898 respectively.
Sir Ziauddin Ahmed's dream to start a medical college at Aligarh Muslim University, was not realised in his lifetime, but has come true with the establishment of the Ziauddin Medical University in Karachi, Pakistan.
www.zmu.edu.pk /sir.html   (425 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan born on October 17, 1817 at Delhi, died March 27, 1898 at Aligarh was a Muslim educator, jurist, and author, founder of the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sir Syed Ahmad had a versatile personality, and his position in the judicial department left him time to be active in many fields.
In 1886 Sir Syed organized the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference, which met annually at different places to promote education and to provide the Muslims with a common platform.
www.amualumni.8m.com /SirSyed.htm   (477 words)

  
 Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion
Sir Syed had called the freedom-fighters mufsid (the unruly ruffians) and was bitterly criticized for using the word.
Sir Syed thought that the Muslims of India, not before long, had suffered greatly at the hands of the British.
Sir Syed was the only Muslim who, while serving the East India Company, had warned in his book ‘Asbab-i-Baghawat-i-Hind’ and in his articles in the Institute Gazette that the rebellion was the natural outburst against the wrong policies of the British.
www.pakistanlink.com /Opinion/2001/May/11/04.html   (831 words)

  
 Educational Philosophy of Sir Syed - I (GreaterKashmir.com) 20/7/2006 : 12:07:43 PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan wrote to Mr J.H Princep the collector of Aligarh : ‘ One of the chief objects aimed by the scientific society is the introduction of improved methods of agriculture into India by which the conditions of the people will be improved.
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan instituted this scientific society to create a scientific temperament among the Muslims and to make the western knowledge available to the Indians in their own language.
Sir Syed visualized : “That this college may expand into a University, whose children shall go forth throughout the length and breadth of the land to preach the gospel of free inquiry of large hearted toleration and of pure morality.
www.greaterkashmir.com /full_story.asp?Date=28_3_2006&ItemID=2&cat=11   (605 words)

  
 The Little Magazine - Ghosts - David Lelyveld - The mystery mansion
The house that Syed Ahmad Khan lived in at Aligarh, which had no special name, was originally owned by Syed Mahmud, purchased in 1876 when he was still the only Indian practising as a High Court advocate in Allahabad.
It is also true, as I’ve mentioned, that Syed Ahmad was a beneficiary of British largesse in the form of a political pension, although here again he was one of many and hardly among the most prominent.
Syed Mahmud had eaten his dinners at Lincoln’s Inn and been called to the Bar, though he had not quite finished a Cambridge degree.
www.littlemag.com /ghosts/davidlelyveld2.html   (1286 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sir T. Munro and the Duke of Wellington said truly enough that to resume lands granted revenue free, was to set the whole people against us, and to make beggars of the masses.
SIR SYED AND THE EDUCATION COMMISSION In 1882 the Government of India appointed an Education Commission under the Chairmanship of Sir W. Hunter to ascertain views of responsible Indians.
Sir Syed and the Education Commission, 1882 87 after the vernacular middle class examinations, for at the time when these scholarships are given the vernacular study is, in fact, at an end.
www.columbia.edu /~bh311/upload/dart_khan_prfd.doc   (19525 words)

  
 Get Pakistan.Com: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
He contributed many of the essential elements to the development of modern India and paved the way for the growth of a healthy scientific attitude of mind, which is a sine qua non for advancement, both material and intellectual.
Sir Syed took keen personal interest in the welfare of students.
The center of this circle was Sir Syed himself and he attracted round him some of the best intellects of the day.
www.getpakistan.com /home/looking_back/sirsyed.htm   (1980 words)

  
 Sir Syed’s contribution to Islamic studies lauded, The Milli Gazette, Vol.5 No.05, MG99 (1-15 Mar 04)
Mr Ahmad pointed out that Sir Syed found the cultivation of modern sciences as developed by the West to be in conformity with the articles of Islamic faith as well as supportive of the mission of Islam.
He said that Sir Syed argues that since reason is used almost universally the fallacy by which the reasoning of one man is fainted had better be rectified by the reasoning of another and not by having recourse to the verdict of a higher faculty.
He highlighted the role of Sir Syed and Mahatma Gandhi and said they were endowed with an extraordinary vision and practical wisdom, which they fully utilized in the cause of the nation.
www.milligazette.com /Archives/2004/01-15Mar04-Print-Edition/0103200488.htm   (418 words)

  
 Institutions Profile (Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology)
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology is playing a major role in the promotion of information technology in the country by producing high quality graduates with specialization in computer software engineering, computer networking and computer hardware.
Sir Syed University has the largest collection of these UNIX Workstations in the country that is available to students in the BS degree programme and is also being used by the students of the Masters programme for research and development.
In a nutshell, over a period of last eight years Sir Syed University has established itself as a model of a successful information technology education institution, which is a role model for all other universities in Pakistan.
www.pakistaneconomist.com /issue2000/issue35/etc12.htm   (799 words)

  
 Islamic Voice
Sir Syed washed off the dust of centuries and melted the ice of rigidities that had made the Muslims moribund
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, one of the greatest reformers of our times, was destined to shape the destiny of Indian Muslims and change the course of history.
It was aristocracy of intellect tempered with sublimity of soul that Sir Syed stood for.
www.islamicvoice.com /january.2000/profile.htm   (1289 words)

  
 Events
November to commemorate the 183rd birthday of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of famous and historical Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Manzar Jamal Siddiqui, a very senior Aligarian with over 30 years’ of association with AMU as a student and a teacher was amazed on the move of a certain section of the society to malign the AMU as a communal institution and its founder a communal personality.
He stressed that Sir Syed was a great social reformer with clear secular credentials, and a firm believer in national integration.
www.amualumni.8m.com /Events.htm   (2780 words)

  
 tribuneindia... Editorial
HIS year's Sir Syed Day celebrations on October 17, 1999, at Aligarh Muslim University were no different from the festivities associated with the birth anniversary of the founder of the institution.
It was an ideal occasion for those charged with the responsibility of carrying forward the mission of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan to unfold for the benefit of the Indian Muslims the educational agenda for the 21st century.
Syed Hamid was the last of a galaxy of illustrious vice-chancellors, including Dr Zakir Hussain, Col Bashir Husain Zaidi, Ali Yavar Jung and Badruddin Tyabji, who had somewhat succeeded in restoring to AMU its position as a globally respected centre of learning.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99oct18/edit.htm   (5807 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (Educator, Jurist and Author),Author of Many Famous Books,October 17,1817 To 27 March,1898   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
His father, who received an allowance from the Mughal administration, became something of a religious recluse; his maternal grandfather had twice served as prime minister of the Mughal emperor of his time and had also held positions of trust under the East India Company.
Sir Syed's brother established one of the first printing presses at Delhi and started one of the earliest newspapers in Urdu.
The death of Sir Syed's father left the family in financial difficulties.
www.telepk.com /personalities/sirsyed.asp   (655 words)

  
 Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Following Sir Syed's basic mission and abiding by the spirit of the Aligarh Movement, AMUOBA has focused attention from the very beginning on furthering education in the country, especially that of science and technology.
The year 1998 being the 100th year of Sir Syed's demise, it was decided-and announced-to start right from 17th October 1997, a programme to befittingly presage and observe the Centenary.
For the first time in Pakistan, the multi-faceted personality of Sir Syed, his multidimensional efforts and their impact and the historical perspective in which this remarkable man struggled against tremendous odds, were brought out so cogently and comprehensively to the nation which owes so much to him.
www.ssuet.edu.pk /AMUOBA.htm   (2037 words)

  
 Sir Syed Day in Northern Calfornia: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan
Needless to say, if there had been no Sir Syed to show the Muslims of British India that after their final loss of power in 1857 to the British and their subsequent mindset of defeat and self-denial, few from amongst us (Indian and Pakistani Muslims) would have pursued a western scientific education.
He explained how Sir Syed evaluated the British and pointed out which part could be of benefit to his people leading to the encouragement of a scientific way of thinking).
Aziz went on to point out that Sir Syed also recognized the fact that power and a strong economic base go together and that military confrontation against the British at the time was out of question.
www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00001518&channel=gulberg   (1676 words)

  
 Digital Spy Forums - Syed from Apprentice: What do you think of him.
Judging from last week, i know Syed is not exactly the most popular contestant considering he has an arrogant type of attitude, but i am seeming to warm to him now alittle, and i think he should stay for longer because i think he has got the drive to become the apprentice.
Sir Alan was right, Syed is a parrot, he talks too much, but since the last 2 weeks i think he has taken Sir Alan's advice and calm down alittle.
Syed is hanging on with an inch of a string, i wish him luck and hope that next week he can take a break from the firing line, because i don't know what else can save him for the third time.
forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=354255   (1782 words)

  
 Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion
Despite the enormous research carried out on the life and works of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan during the past hundred years, there are certain aspects of his personality, as well as of the services rendered by him, that remain controversial.
Sir Syed Ahmed came under heavy fire by the Indian Muslim clerics for some of the contents of this travelogue, but he never ceased to advise the Muslims to take full advantage of the opportunities for higher education and to adopt the ways and means of the most advanced nation of that age.
Also, the maidservant employed by Sir Syed for petty household chores was educated enough to read her copy of the half-penny paper.
www.pakistanlink.com /Letters/2003/May/30/05.html   (776 words)

  
 Story of Pakistan Discussion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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www.storyofpakistan.com /discforum/topic.asp?topicid=32&forumid=6   (195 words)

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