A survey on the Influence of India's Political Power framework on Seyyed Ahmad Khan's political Thoughts, Emphasizing the Knowledge-Power Theory of Michel Foucault

The religious reformist discourse seeks to present and re-interpret Islam in accordance with the circumstances and conditions of the time, in order to relieve it of its distortion and dogmatism. This discourse in the Islamic world, in addition to the effects of changes from the new intellectual and practical processes, is heavily influenced by the building of the political power of its place of birth and evolution, in the sense that the religious reformist ideas of a period of time with consideration Their place of birth and evolution are distinct from each other. Sayyid Ahmad Khan's political thought as one of the religious reformers in India is also heavily influenced by the construction of political power in the country. Thus, the question of this paper is how did the construction of political power in India affect Sayyid Ahmad Khan's thinking? The construction of India's political power, which is an outcome of British colonial rule over its political, social, and cultural processes, seems to have been influenced by Sayyid Ahmad Khan's intellectual orientation toward religious reform in order to improve the situation of Muslims in the Indian community. This paper seeks to assess the hypothesis by using Foucault's knowledge-power theory and using a descriptive-analytical method based on bibliographic and reference materials.