Scholarly dimensions of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Abstract
RevieMng the nineteenth century colonial literature and literat
characters. the gost colonial critics have devebped a linear
narratve. This narrative propagates that Imperialists had initiated
a particular type of disowrse to estabksh a cdonial strueure of
authc•ritv and scwereigntv. For. the imperial powers used a
selectee class of personalities. Analysis of re antribut6n of
AIOarh Movement and Sir Syed Ahmad Khan in this perspective
can a go" attempt to understand he tyrannical tactics of the
colonial imperialists. Honever, question arises Whether the
comparison of nineteenth century social, mlitjcal, cultural and
economic structure with twenty first century globalized hierarchical
values vauld be justified or not? Especially when an active
of information without evaluation. would have m•ke it difficult to
access authentic facts. If nineteenth century be consdered a
continuity of dassical age and role of Sir Syed be analyzed as
one of charaeers of Classical aw then that classical
man will collect infcrmaton in the wake of imperial modernists'
introduction of marvels of new science and %lndcgyl Ard Now
far he would be able to develop a tra•fional or postmodem
narrative against the imperialists? This is a difficult questjcn to
answer? The paper evaluates the role of Sir Syed in a way that
impact of his Intellectual ard literary services on society and
Muslim community be placed in perspective Fcr, other than the
discourse of ivanrica Imoerialism art its offshoots, the level of
sincerity, '%votion, dedication and thorough concerns with the
issues of communal identity as human value system, distinct from
all other discourses, forms the crux of the debate in this paper
Mumtaz Kaliyani , Samia Kowal . (2016) سرسیّداحمدخان کی علمی وفکری جہات, Zaban-o-Adab, Volume 21, Issue 1 .
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