Syed Ahmed Khan

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Other names:

Saiyid Ahmad Khan

Date of birth:

17 Oct 1817

City of birth:

Delhi

Country of birth:

India

Date of death:

27 Mar 1898

Location of death:

Aligarh, India

Location:

21 Mecklenburgh Square, Camden (1869-70)

About:

Syed Ahmed Khan was a prominent Muslim reformer and leader. He founded the Muslim Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh in 1877, which proved to be a highly influential educational institution for Muslim and Indian politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Secondary works:

Robinson, Francis, ‘Ahmad Khan, Sir Saiyid [Syed Ahmed Khan] (1817–1898)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47667]

Archive source:

Aligarh Muslim University