Ahmad Khan's Accounts of His Travel to and Stay in England

• Matsumura Takamitsu

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• アフマド・ハーンのイギリス旅行記について
• アフマド　ハーン　ノ　イギリス　リョコウ　ニ　ツイテ
• アフマド ・ ハーン ノ イギリス リョコウキ ニ ツイテ

Abstract

Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817-1897), an energetic reformer of Indian Muslim society and rationalist interpreter of Islam, went to London in 1869. He wrote about the journey in his letters and a travelogue entitled “Musāfirān-e London( The Visitors to London)”. In these documents, Sayyid Ahmad Khan not only described his experience minutely and interestingly in straightforward Urdu but clearly expressed his opinion that the Indian Muslims, one of the most backward communities in the world, should obtain useful knowledge from European civilization which had nothing to do with Christianity, by the medium of Urdu, the lingua franca of India, on the basis of self-help

Journal

• 言語文化研究

  言語文化研究 41 149-161, 2015-03-31

  Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University

Keywords

• アフマド・ハーン
• イギリス旅行記
• インド・ムスリム

Details

• CRID: 1390009224808218880
• NII Article ID: 120005588244
• NII Book ID: AN00077727
• DOI: 10.18910/51431
• HANDLE: 11094/51431
• NDL BIB ID: 026585768
• ISSN: 03874478
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I026585768
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • IRDB
  • NDL
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN