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| Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817–98) |
Dr Geoff Nash gave the annual Sir Syed Memorial Lecture to
the Aligarh Muslim University Alumni Association (UK) at 41 Fitzroy Sq. London
on October 19, 2014. His address was entitled; 'Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the
Postcolonial Age'. Geoff discussed the conundrum of this great Victorian Indian
thinker, reformer and seminal figure of Islamic Modernism being today well
known but little studied. He discussed Sayyid Ahmad's attitudes toward British
imperialism and modern Islam in the context of today's religious extremism and
the contribution of British Muslims of South Asian origin to multicultural
Britain.
