cit.) Ahmad Khan’s book was a fitting rejoinder to Muir’s...

cit.) Ahmad Khan’s book was a fitting rejoinder to Muir’s outburst against the Prophet of Islam. He undertook a point-by-point refutation of the main arguments in twelve essays which start with the “Historical Geography of Arabia” and end with “On the Birth and Childhood of Mohammed”. Interestingly, Ahmad Khan produced his own genealogy on the back of the large size sheet which contains the genealogy of the Prophet, tracing it back to the Prophet of Islam through his daughter Fatima.

This book has been reprinted many times. The one I have used was reprinted by Premier Book House in 1968 in Lahore. The title page states that the “original English text of these essays has been revised and corrected by a friend” and author’s name is given asSyed Ahmed KhanBahador , C.S.I. The Urdu version was published in 1887 asKhutbat al- Ahmdia fi bl Arabwa Seeratul Mu hammadia ,Aligarh . [^11] .Iskandar an i, Mu h ammad b.

Ahmad (1297/1880),Kash al-Asrar can al-Nuraniyya al-Qur abniyya fi-mayata callaqu bi al-Ajram as-Samawiyya wa al-Ar diyya wa al-Hayawan atwa al-Nabatwa al-Jawahir al-Maacdaniyya , 3 vols. Cairo. [^12] . Al-Iskandar ani, Muhammad b. Ahmad (1300/1883),Tiby an al-Asr ar al-Rabb aniyya fbil-Nabatwa bl Maacdinwa bl-Khaw sas al-Hawywaniyyah , Damascus. [^13] .

The 1857 effort to gain independence from the British rule was called “mutiny” by the British; its Urdu equivalent,Gadar , was used by some pro-British writers for this heroic effort which failed due to many reasons, including treason by Muslims and Hindus loyal to the British. [^14] . See Panipat i,Maulana Muhammadlsm ical (ed., 1963),Maqalat -e SirSayyid , 16vols., Majlis-eTaraqqi-e Adad , Lahore, [henceforthMaq alat], vol. 2, pp. 199-[^200]: [^15] . ibid. [^16] . ibid. [^17] .

For a discussion on Ahmad Khan’s reinterpretations, see Troll, C.W. (1979),Sayyid Ahmad Khan:A Reinterpretation of Muslim Theology, Oxford University Press, Karachi.…