Write your reflection on the book "Life and Works of Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan"
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Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, (born Oct. 17, 1817, Delhi—died March 27, 1898, Aligarh, India), Muslim educator, jurist, and author, founder of the Anglo-Mohammedan Oriental College at Alīgarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, and the principal motivating force behind the revival of Indian Islām in the late 19th century.
The beautiful book ‘life and works of Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan’ was astounding.
The beautiful lines “Parisians call their city, not Paris, but Paradise, and I quite agree with them that it is the Paradise of this world. ' If there be a paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this.” have baffled me. I love that He opposed ignorance, superstitions and evil customs prevalent in Indian Muslim society. He firmly believed that Muslim society would not progress without the acquisition of western education and science. More than before there was a need to study the two forms of knowledge in comparative terms. “It is, therefore, necessary that the evils, defects and weaknesses of modern philosophy are pointed out with arguments and evidences or Islamic beliefs and religious views are identified with European philosophical ideas to find similarities between them,” he reasoned. Always one to argue his case competently and in a civilized manner, Sir Syed believed ‘that nothing in Islam and its belief is against reason and science.’ He exhorted the Islamic scholars to face the challenges of modern philosophy. There are definitely parallels between deism and his interpretation of religion. His detractors call him an Anglophile, a man too much in awe of everything English. He is also called an apologist for rationalism. Conservatives find faults with his views on Islam. Unfair remarks are also made about his views on women. However, in passing a judgement on a past icon it must be remembered that thinking very often is trapped in the episteme of its time. That Sir Syed could go beyond the accepted discursive norms of his time in many respects (especially in religious matters) speaks volumes about his vision. More importantly, it baffles me how one single person could combine so successfully the roles of an administrator, reformer, thinker, educationalist, journalist, writer, religious scholar, devoted family man and above all a humanist. He was truly, to use Pierre Bourdieu’s coinage, a collective intellectual.
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The beautiful book ‘life and works of Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan’ was astounding.
The beautiful lines “Parisians call their city, not Paris, but Paradise, and I quite agree with them that it is the Paradise of this world. ' If there be a paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this.” have baffled me. I love that He opposed ignorance, superstitions and evil customs prevalent in Indian Muslim society. He firmly believed that Muslim society would not progress without the acquisition of western education and science. More than before there was a need to study the two forms of knowledge in comparative terms. “It is, therefore, necessary that the evils, defects and weaknesses of modern philosophy are pointed out with arguments and evidences or Islamic beliefs and religious views are identified with European philosophical ideas to find similarities between them,” he reasoned. Always one to argue his case competently and in a civilized manner, Sir Syed believed ‘that nothing in Islam and its belief is against reason and science.’ He exhorted the Islamic scholars to face the challenges of modern philosophy. There are definitely parallels between deism and his interpretation of religion. His detractors call him an Anglophile, a man too much in awe of everything English. He is also called an apologist for rationalism. Conservatives find faults with his views on Islam. Unfair remarks are also made about his views on women. However, in passing a judgement on a past icon it must be remembered that thinking very often is trapped in the episteme of its time. That Sir Syed could go beyond the accepted discursive norms of his time in many respects (especially in religious matters) speaks volumes about his vision. More importantly, it baffles me how one single person could combine so successfully the roles of an administrator, reformer, thinker, educationalist, journalist, writer, religious scholar, devoted family man and above all a humanist. He was truly, to use Pierre Bourdieu’s coinage, a collective intellectual.
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