Syed Ahmad Khan

Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan Bahadur ( Urdu: سید احمد خان بہا در; born October 17, 1817 in Delhi, † March 27, 1898 in Aligarh ) was an Islamic thinker and wrote a treatise in which he tried to show the British that the Islam is a co-operation with the colonial administration not forbid. His ancestors were originally from the Persian city of Herat in medieval Khorasan before they migrated to India. Khan has long been active in an Islamic Court and wrote treatises on the history of Islam and the Islamic religion.

Khan has gone through in his life three stations of thinking, can be classified as follows: 1 Religious thinking ( 1842-57 ), 2nd time of the translation ( 1857-69 ), third interpretation of religion ( 1870-98 ).

On the basis of certain verses of the Koran, which he reinterpreted, he tried to prove that the jihad for Muslims is only mandatory if there is an "active suppression or obstruction of the exercise" of religion. Since the British but neither the prayer nor the fast of Ramadan and the pilgrimage to Mecca disabled, jihad is inadmissible against them.

Sayyid Ahmad Khan also addressed the challenge provided the emerging discipline of science to society and religion.

In a speech, he explains how the true Islam should be in his opinion. Firstly, it is bordered Islam sharply from Greek philosophy from whose ways of thinking are deeply rooted in Islamic culture, which he indirectly influenced the rationalistic Islam, which is taught in the madrasas, the Islamic universities criticized. Greek philosophy is an insufficient means to meet the requirements imposed by modern science to religion for him. Islam must in his opinion back to its roots in order to be flexible enough to meet the requests of the new age. So he tried, for example, the Koran by his mystical accessory to free and emphasized scientific elements within theology. This attempt to reconcile theology and science, however, brought him a lot of criticism because he had not completed the madrasas education itself, it had yet taken on the task to question theological statements.

1869/70 lived Ahmad Khan and a half years in England. After his return he not only tried to convince the British rule over to be loyal, but also something to take from the western culture, the Muslims in India. In addition, he decided to build " a Muslim Cambridge " field. Each of these colleges should be connected to a mosque, churches are just as connected to the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. 1873 preliminary planning phase of the college have been published. 1875 in Aligarh (India) founded the Aligarh Muslim University.

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