Aligarh Muslim University
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Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is a prominent public central university located in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1875, it is a significant institution of higher learning. The university is situated in the city of Aligarh, which is an agricultural trade center. AMU includes affiliated colleges such as Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Zakir Hussain College of Engineering and Technology. The city itself is also known as Koil or Kol, with Aligarh being the name of a nearby fort.1
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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.…
Read More…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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Read More…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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