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  Hakim Ajmal Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hakim Ajmal Khan was born in 1863 in Delhi.
Khan's involvement in politics began with writing for the Urdu weekly Akmal-ul-Akhbar, which was founded in 1865-70 and was run by his family.
Khan was in the deputation of Muslims that met the Viceroy of India in Shimla in 1906, presenting him a memorandum on behalf of the community, and in 1907 was present in Dhaka where the All India Muslim League was created.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hakim_Ajmal_Khan   (552 words)

  
 Syed Ahmed Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Bahadur, 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, which later became Aligarh Muslim University, at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Sir Syed's brother established one of the first printing presses at Delhi and started one of the earliest newspapers in Urdu.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syed_Ahmed_Khan   (1083 words)

  
 Argument:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Syed Ahmed Khan, arguably one of the most important Muslim figures of the nineteenth century and founder of Aligarh College, published The Causes of the Indian Revolt in 1858 to produce a text for the Muslim community.
Syed Ahmed Khan was born in 1817 into a prestigious family in the Mughal Empire, and his generation was one of the last raised in that courtly community (Metcalf 99).
They… gradually domesticated themselves in India” (Khan 35) and, “It must be borne in mind, that the blood of the Muhammadan conquerors and that of the people of the country was not the same; that their faith was not the same…” (Khan 40).
www.artsci.wustl.edu /~ssen/Paper3.htm   (2424 words)

  
 About Us: Sir Ziauddin Ahmed. Ziauddin Medical University.
SIR ZIAUDDIN AHMED was born in 1877 in the picturesque town of Meerut in India.
He died on 23rd December 1947 in London, and was buried in the premises of the main mosque of Aligarh Muslim University along side Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
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.
www.zmu.edu.pk /sir.html   (425 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)

  
 =:: Smart Articles ::=
Syed Ahmad Khan was born in Delhi on October 17, 1817.
Syed Ahmad's mother, Aziz-un-Nisa, took a great deal of interest in the education and upbringing of her son.
Sir Syed is known as the founder of Two-Nation Theory in the modern era.
www.smartdunya.com /article/sirsyed.htm   (924 words)

  
 Sir Syed & Aligarh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.binoria.org /albineng/august98/aligarh.html   (1570 words)

  
 Syed Ahmed Khan - TheBestLinks.com - Sayed Ahmed, India, Muslim, Muslims, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur, 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, which later became Aligarh Muslim University, 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.thebestlinks.com /Sayed_Ahmed.html   (567 words)

  
 Events
November to commemorate the 183rd birthday of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of famous and historical Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India.
Abdul Azeem Khan, the President of AMU Old Boys’ Association, Riyadh gave his opening presidential address briefly highlighting the mission of Sir Syed in context with the scientific education of Muslims of Indian sub-continent and the importance of his personality to Aligarians.
Mohammad Mukarram Khan, former AMU lecturer and presently working with University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran thrilled the audience with a unique style of his speech starting in chaste Hindi and ending up in literary Urdu with Sanskrit and Persian couplets embedded in between.
www.amualumni.8m.com /Events.htm   (2780 words)

  
 SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN
Syed’s family, though progressive, was highly regarded by the dying Mughal dynasty.
Syed’s brother established one of the first printing press at Delhi and started one of the earlier newspapers in Urdu, the principal language of the Muslims of northern India.
Syed Ahmed had a versatile personality, and his position in the judicial department left him time to be active in many fields.
www.brain.net.pk /~wisetech/50/bio/syed.htm   (829 words)

  
 Syed Ahmed Khan Biography / Biography of Syed Ahmed Khan Biography
Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898) was a Moslem religious leader, educationalist, and politician.
Born on Oct. 17, 1817, Syed Ahmed trained himself in Moslem law and religion and was employed by the British government.
Syed Ahmed increasingly opposed Hindu and nationalist leaders after the creation of the Indian National Congress in 1885.
www.bookrags.com /biography-syed-ahmed-khan   (620 words)

  
 Role of the Late Aga Khan
The Muslims under the leadership of Syed Ahmed Khan were soon found trying to keep themselves aloof from the Congress because it had become obvious that its activities were by no means favorable to them.
In 1897, the Aga Khan presented three addresses of congratulations to the then Viceroy Lord Elgin at Simla; one on behalf of his community, the other as leader of the Muslims of Western India and a third on behalf of a representative assemblage of the citizens of Bombay and Poona.
The Aga Khan's appointment to the Viceroy's Legislative council at the age of 25 years, as he then was, proved an effective training ground for his future public and political life.
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 Foreign Policy Association - Discussion
Shaikh Ahmed of Sirhind (1564-1624), bestowed with the title of Mujahddid-i-Alf-i-Sani (the Reviver of the Religion in the first millennium), set in motion a process that culminated in the reign of Aurangzeb Alamgir (1658-1707), the most orthodox, pious and practicing Mughal Emperor.
Syed Ahmed Shaheed received widespread support in Northern and Eastern India for the mission assigned to him.
Encouraged by the British, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was able to enlist the support of the upper class Muslims and exercised considerable influence till his death in 1898.
www.fpa.org /thread_msg2503/thread_msg_show.htm?message_id=73649   (3780 words)

  
 In defence of 2-nation theory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A new generation, all sons of the soil one may add, with a prayer that this most unfortunate epithet is laid to rest, is unaware of the origin of the two-nation theory and why it is as valid today as when Jinnah revived it.
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was not only the author of the two-nation theory but also the founder of the Aligarh Movement whose students, as historians have documented, along with students of Islamic College, Peshawar; Government, F.C. and Islamia College Lahore and Sind Madrassah were in the vanguard of the Pakistan Movement.
It was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan who predicted to Commissioner Shakespeare, at the fin de siecle, when the Urdu Hindi controversy first emerged in the United Provinces, that this divide would lead to two nations.
www.hvk.org /articles/1000/50.html   (1132 words)

  
 Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1898/1232-1316)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Born in the twilight of the Mughal Era in the Indian subcontinent to a distinguished family, Sayyid Ahmad Khan is the eldest of the five prominent Muslim modernists whose influence on Islamic thought and polity was to shape and define Muslim responses to modernism in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Born in the twilight of the Indian Tîmûrî era to a distinguished family, Sayyid Ahmad Khan was involved in a wide range of activities—from politics to education.
Ahmad Khan wanted to establish a “vernacular university” for the N.W. Provinces but he was discouraged by the champions of Hindi who wanted such a university to teach in Hindi, rather than Urdu.
www.cis-ca.org /voices/k/syydkhn-mn.htm   (3389 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) [Pak Avenue > Web Digest > History > Freedom Fighters]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, an educational, political and religious reformer was the major formulator of the concept of the "Two-Nation Theory" among Muslims of India in the latter half of the 19th century.
Born in a leading family of Syeds in Delhi in 1817, Syed Ahmad was raised in the religious and cultural style of the Mughal literati and scholastic tradition associated with Shah Wali-Ullah.
In 1887, Sir Syed, as he came to be known, warned the Muslims to keep away from the Indian National Congress and in order to defend the political fortune of the Muslims, he helped to bring into being the Mohammadan Defense Association in 1893.
www.pakavenue.com /webdigest/history/freedom_fighter_005.htm   (429 words)

  
 Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
To highlight Sir Syed Ahmed Khan's role in the ascent of Muslim conciousness in India, the author traces the course of events from the early eighteenth century to the demise of the Mughal empire and onwards to the rise of Hindu fundamentalism.
Sir Syed's life is a profound study in human nature and presents a rare combination of principle and personality that guided the destiny of the Indian Muslim at the height of the British Raj in India.
This account of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan 's life and times is indispensable reading for those who wish to understand the social, religious, economic and political life of the Muslims of India in the nineteenth century.
www.desistore.com /sirsyed.html   (288 words)

  
 Get Pakistan.Com: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
In the history of India's transition from medievalism to modernism, Syed Ahmad Khan stands out prominently as a dynamic force pitted against conservation, superstition, inertia and ignorance.
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.
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)

  
 Encyclopedia: Syed Ahmed Khan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar.
The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was a joint-stock company of investors, which was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600, with the intent to favour trade privileges in India.
Sir Syeds grave File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Syed-Ahmed-Khan   (1368 words)

  
 Times of Oman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of AMU and a renowned scholar, historian and social reformer, was born in October 1817, a time when the colonial rule of the British Raj was firmly entrenched in India.
In this task he sought cooperation of all the communities and the institute was open to all, irrespective of caste creed and religion.
For Sir Syed Ahmed Khan it was impossible to conceive the growth and progress of India without simultaneous development of communities in harmony, brotherhood and cooperation.
www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=1040   (345 words)

  
 bitonweb.com - Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology cherishes the heritage of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and of the Aligarh Movement.
A great educational and social reformer, Sir Syed emerged on the scene in the Sub-Continent towards the middle of the 19th century.
The thesis will be the property of Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology and the University will have the right to publish whole or part of the same in a technical journal with credits being given to the student and the supervisor.
www.geocities.com /bitonweb1/ssuet.htm   (2162 words)

  
 Allama Mashriqi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Allama Mashriqi (Inayatullah Khan) was born on August 25, 1888 and died in Lahore, Pakistan on August 27, 1963.
His father, Khan Ata Mohammad Khan, was also an author and had written books in prose as well as poetry and published a weekly magazine by the name of Vakil.
He had a very close relationship with Sir Syed Ahmed Khan (Founder of Aligarh University and a very well respected person in the Muslim community of Indo-Pakistan) and both were extremely concerned about the future of the Muslims.
psjg.bizcue.com /allama_mashriqi.htm   (2423 words)

  
 Islamic Voice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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.
As a social reformer, a political leader, a religious thinker and as a moralist, a rationalist, a humanist and a jurist, he contributed much to the realm of theology, philosophy, religion, history, literature, education and politics, besides building institutions which aimed at eradicating ignorance, apathy, and superstition.
It was aristocracy of intellect tempered with sublimity of soul that Sir Syed stood for.
www.islamicvoice.com /january.2000/profile.htm   (1289 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)

  
 Pakistan Factor in India’s Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It was Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-98) who contributed the most in pulling the community into the flow of contemporary changes.
Syed Ahmed proved to be a great reformer, progressive and educationist.
They were hardly touched by the momentum of Syed Ahmed Khan’s dynamism or plans.
www.saag.org /papers7/paper602.html   (4330 words)

  
 Pakiplus+ Historical Page
A volunteer force of Mujahids under Syed Ahmed Barelvi fought valiantly against the sikhs and occupied Peshawar in 1829.
Syed Ahmed died a martyr's death at Balakot in May, 1831.
On Mohsin-ul-Muli's request the Aga Khan led a deputation to the Viceroy at Simla on October 1, 1906.
www.pakiplus.iwarp.com /historical.html   (2108 words)

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