Aligarh Muslim University | university, Aligarh, India | Britannica (original) (raw)

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education in Uttar Pradesh

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  In Uttar Pradesh: Education
  …universities in Uttar Pradesh are Aligarh Muslim University (1875), founded by Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan; Banaras Hindu University (1916) in Varanasi, founded by Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya; and the University of Lucknow (1921). Among the state’s many institutes for specialized studies and research are the Indian Institute of Technology at…
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establishment by Ahmad Khan

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  In Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan
  …and author, founder of the Anglo-Mohammedan Oriental College at Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, and the principal motivating force behind the revival of Indian Islam in the late 19th century. His works, in Urdu, included Essays on the Life of Mohammed (1870) and commentaries on the Bible and on the Qurʾān.…
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  In India: Nationalism in the Muslim community
  …the Anglo-Muhammadan Oriental College (now Aligarh Muslim University) at Aligarh in 1875. It was India’s first center of Islamic and Western higher education, with instruction given in English and modeled on Oxford. Aligarh became the intellectual cradle of the Muslim League and Pakistan.
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support of Aga Khan III

• In Aga Khan III
  …raising the Muslim college at Aligarh to university status, which was effected in 1920.
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