Aḥmad Khān, Sayyid - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (d. 1898), an Indian educational reformer, modernist religious thinker, and political leader, was born in Delhi on 6 Dhū l-Ḥijja 1232/17 October 1817. On his father's side his family were Ḥusaynī sayyid s, who came to India from Herat to serve the Mughals in the time of Abū l-Fatḥ Akbar (r. 963-1014/1556-1605), and from that time remained close to the royal family. His father, Mīr Muttaqī (d. 1838), a sportsman and Ṣūfī, was a courtier close enough to Akbar Shāh