Sejarah sayyid ahmad khan biography
Sejarah sayyid ahmad khan biography
Sejarah sayyid ahmad khan.
Syed Ahmad Khan
Indian reformer and social activist (1817–1898)
Not to be confused with Syed Ahmad Barelvi.
Sir Syed Ahmad KhanKCSI, FRAS (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898), also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer,[1][2][3]philosopher, and educationist[4] in nineteenth-century British India.[5][6]
Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement.[1][7][8][9][10][11] Born into a family with strong ties to the Mughal court, Ahmad studied science and the Quran within the court.
He was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889.[12][9][6]
In 1838, Syed Ahmad entered the service of East India Company and went on to become