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" Aḥmad Khān, Sayyid - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Robinson, Francis
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AL
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English
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1060577
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ALei974
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Robinson, Francis
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Aḥmad Khān, Sayyid - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Robinson, Francis
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,776 words)
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Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (d. 1898), an Indian educational reformer, modernist religious thinker, and political leader, was born in Delhi on 6 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1232/17 October 1817. On his father's side his family were Ḥusaynī sayyid s, who came to India from Herat to serve the Mughals in the time of Abū l-Fatḥ Akbar (r. 963–1014/1556–1605), and from that time remained close to the royal family. His father, Mīr Muttaqī (d. 1838), a sportsman and Ṣūfī, was a courtier close enough to Akbar Shāh
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Islam.
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ALei974.pdf
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