Syed ali ashraf biography of william

  • Books by Syed Ali Ashraf ; The Name and the Named(1st Edition) ; The Prophets, The(2nd Edition) ; Islam(1st Edition) (World Religions) ; Koranic Concept of History.
  • Syed Ali Ashraf (1925 - 1998).
  • Emerson and Islam.

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    Emerson and Islam

    Syed Ashraf Ali shines a light on how Islam affected the thinking of the great American transcendentalist

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), the great American essayist, lecturer, journalist, poet and philosopher, said that he wrote in order "to awake in man and raise the feeling of his worth." The elegance and excellence of his inimitable writings inspire and captivate many readers and give them new courage to be themselves. Not only ordinary readers but even celebrities like David Thoreau and Walt Whitman in America, Matthew Arnold and William James in Britain, and Friedrich Nietzsche in Germany were inspired by the great literary genius.

    Emerson believed that each man must think for himself and act on his own best instincts. In his words: "What is a man born for but to be Reformer, a Re-maker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on

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    Syed Ahmad Khan

    Indian reformer and social activist (1817–1898)

    Not to be confused with Syed Ahmad Barelvi.

    Sir Syed Ahmad KhanKCSI, FRAS (17 October 1817 – 27 March 1898), also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer,[1][2][3]philosopher, and educationist[4] in nineteenth-century British India.[5][6]

    Though initially espousing Hindu–Muslim unity, he later became the pionjär of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the grund of the Pakistan movement.[1][7][8][9][10][11] Born into a family with strong ties to the Mughal court, Ahmad studied science and the Quran within the court. He was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889.[12][9][6]

    In 1838, Syed Ahmad entered the service of East India Company and went on to become

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    Ali, Syed Ameer (1849-1928)lawyer, spokesman on Indian Muslim concerns, and writer on Islamic history and gemenskap, was born on 6 April 1849 at Cuttack in Orissa. He was the fourth of five sons of Syed Saadat Ali, a descendant of a Shia family from Meshed in Iran. Ameer Ali's great-grandfather had migrated from Iran with the army of Nadir Shah in 1739, serving thereafter at the Mughal and Awadh courts. Soon after his birth his father, who had trained in yunani medicine, and was by inclination scholarly, moved the family first to Calcutta, and then to Chinsura, where they upheld in modest comfort the lifestyle of the ashraf elite. His family's origins were to influence strongly Ameer Ali's sense of his own identity, leading to some criticism of him as alienated from the Bengali environment of his own childhood.

    At a time when many Muslim families were reluctant to make use of English government educational facilities, Syed Saadat Ali, who had many English friends, took advantage

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