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Famous Muslim reformer, philosopher, modernist, and the founder of the Aligarh Muslim University, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was born on October 17, , in Delhi during the reign of Mughal emperor Akbar II.

Sir Syed is considered one of the most important figures of Islamic modernism in the Indian subcontinent.

Sir Syed was born into a family that had previously served the Mughal court for nearly two and a half centuries. His family traced its genealogy to the family of Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and Ali.

As a child, he was brought up in a traditional Islamic and Sufi household by his maternal grandfather Khwaja Fariduddin who was among the descendants of the 12th Sufi scholar of Naqshbandi Tariqa, Khwaja Mohammad Yusuf Hamdani.

KA Nizami notes, &#;It [Delhi] was a city of light and shade, and Sayyid Ahmad had had an opportunity to see its rosy as well as its seamy side.

He used to visit the court with his father and thus he had first-hand knowledge of the court life