Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan founds the college at Aligarh to give India's Muslims modern education alongside their faith; the Aligarh movement becomes the seedbed of Muslim modernism in South Asia and, in time, of the Pakistan movement.
Tagged: Modern Reformist Islam Muslim Sunni Islam
The Event
- Date
- 1875 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Aligarh; today Aligarh, India
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Modern Reformist Islam, Sunni Islam
- Key figures
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Primary Sources
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan, essays and addresses
Secondary Sources
- Gelvin, The Modern Middle East: A History (Oxford, 4th ed. 2016)
- Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford, 4th ed. 2011)
Provenance: HIST-0247; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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