 Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi was similarly educated in Paris around the same time.He surveyed the political systems of 21 European countries in an effort to reform Tunisia.Notable Modernists on the Indian subcontinent include Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1817–1898) and Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) in the Indian subcontinent (the latter was also the conceiver of the modern state of Pakistan).