Synopsis Glimpses of Muslim Education in India traces the growth and development of modern education among the Muslim community of the sub-continent. In moulding ideas of his conservative community from medievalism to modernism Sri Syed had played a vital role. Had he not been there, Muslims would have stayed in the medieval age even today. The MAO college founded by him was the nucleus for disseminating western education among the Muslims. The college was raised to the status of the university in 1920. Its convocation, address are revealing and one can study plans of their education since the time of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan who may right, be called a pioneer in a difficult age.