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Title
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Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Muslim Renaissance Man of India
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Subtitle
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A Bicentenary Commemorative Volume
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Author
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Editor: A. R. Kidwai
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ISBN
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9789386243553
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Rs
1895.00
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Binding
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Hardbound
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No of pages
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366
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Book size
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153 x 229
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Publishing year
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2017
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Original publisher
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Viva Books Private Limited
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Published in India by
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Viva Books Private Limited
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Exclusive distributors
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Viva Books Private Limited
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Sales territory
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Worldwide
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New Arrival
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Description:
This
commemorative volume, marking the bicentenary of an outstanding thinker,
writer, educationist, and visionary — Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) brings
into sharper light the various facets of Sir Syed’s genius. Contributors to the
volume, hailing from the US, Europe, and South Asia, provide fresh perspectives
on Sir Syed’s oeuvre, and his sterling contributions to domains as diverse as
the Quran interpretation, Prophet Muhammad’s biography, social reform, Urdu
language and literature, journalism, travelogue, archaeology, history,
politics, inter-Faith understanding, and, above all, education.
This volume
offers a nuanced, critical exploration of the historic phenomenon of the
awakening of the Indian Muslims to the challenges of modernity, which was set
in motion by this great Muslim Renaissance Man of India - Sir Syed Ahmad
Khan. Sir Syed is,
nonetheless, acclaimed most for having founded in 1877, against the bleak
conditions contingent on the end of the Muslim rule in India, the
Mohammedan-Anglo Oriental College (the MAO College) at Aligarh which sensitized
Indian Muslims to Western education and modernity, which, in turn, inspirited
them. In 1920, the MAO College was elevated to the Aligarh Muslim University
(AMU) which now ranks amid the top Indian universities.
Contents: Dedication
Acknowledgment
Foreword –
Farhan Ahmad Nizami Contributors
Chapter 1: Sir Syed’s Tafsir: Issues in Terminology and
Concepts - Revelation, Miracles, Angels
and the Jinn (Syed Asim Ali) Chapter 2: The Inheritance of Sir Syed: A View from the West (Gordon
Campbell)
Chapter 3: Perspectives on Sir Syed and the
Aligarh Movement (M Mohibul Haque) Chapter 4: The Inspiration Behind Aligarh – A
Quest for Knowledge and Bridge
Building: Cultivating Young Peace
Educators to Promote Global Social Harmony (Amineh Hoti)
Chapter 5: Moulding the Mind, Ordering the
Life: The Hall of Residence at Colonial
Aligarh, 1877-1907 ( Mazhar Hussain) Chapter 6: The Aligarh Movement and the History
of Colonial Education, 1870-1920 (Robert
Ivermee)
Chapter 7: Sir Syed’s Life of the Prophet:
Eastern Sources (Gulfishan Khan) Chapter 8: Westward Bound: Sir Syed’s Quest for
Knowledge in his Travelogue, Musafiran-i London (1869) (Abdur Raheem Kidwai)
Chapter 9: Blasphemy and Conversion Debate and
Sir Syed (Shafey Kidwai) Chapter 10: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Mughal
Past (David Lelyveld)
Chapter 11: Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan: An Avantgarde of Modernity (Hafeez Malik) Chapter 12: Sir Syed Ahmed Khan: Reconstructing
the Discourse of a Pioneering Muslim Modernist (Iftikhar H Malik)
Chapter 13: Language, Friendship, and Respect:
Two Families in Colonial India (Barbara D Metcalf) Chapter 14: The Aligarh Movement: Its Genesis and
Development (Shan Muhammad)
Chapter 15: The Legacy of Sayyid Ahmad Khan in
the Postcolonial Age (Geoffrey Nash) Chapter 16: Sir Sayyid and the Religious
Foundations for a Pluralist Society (Charles M Ramsey)
Chapter 17: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and the Honour
of the Prophet: the Danish Cartoon Crisis in Perspective (Ataullah
Siddiqui)
Chapter 18: Some Remarks on Sayyid Ahmad Khan’s
Commentary on Matthew 5 (Christian W Troll) About
the Editor:
Abdur Raheem
Kidwai is Professor
of English and Director, UGC Human Resource Development Centre, at the Aligarh
Muslim University. He has to his credit two PhDs in English: one from the
Aligarh Muslim University, and the other from the University of Leicester, UK.
Also, he has been the Honorary Professor/Fellow at the Department of English,
University of Leicester, and Commonwealth Fellow. He has authored more than 25
books and hundreds of articles and reviews on English literature, English
translations of the Quran, Literary Orientalism, and Urdu literature. His
latest publications are: Orientalism in English Literature: Perception of
Islam and Muslims (2016) and the edited volume, Believing and Belonging:
Critical Essays on Muslim British Fiction (2016). He is the
Chairman, Sir Syed Bicentenary Celebration Committee, AMU.
Target Audience: This book will be
useful for students and academicians of
education, history and Islamic Studies.
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