The Cambridge Companion To Sayyid Ahmad Khan |best|

Was Sayyid Ahmad Khan a slave of colonial epistemology? Critics, particularly from the post-colonial left, argue that his “modernism” was simply internalized British Orientalism. The Companion presents a dialectic. Several chapters defend him, arguing that he “weaponized” English education and Western science to create a counter-narrative. He did not abandon Islam; he re-founded it on a rationalist basis that challenged both traditional maulvis (clerics) and Christian missionaries.