Syed Ahmed Khan

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Other names

Saiyid Ahmad Khan

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Date of birth
City of birth
Delhi
Country of birth
India
Date of death
Location of death
Aligarh, India
Location

21 Mecklenburgh Square, Camden (1869-70)

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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.

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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]

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Archive source

Aligarh Muslim University