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Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah
Sylhet Government Alia Madrasa ( bn, সিলেট সরকারী আলিয়া মাদ্রাসা; ar, المدرسة العالية الحكومية سلهت) is located in Chawhatta, Sylhet, Bangladesh. Founded in 1913, the madrasa currently has more than 650 students and 18 staff. The institution is located on the opposite side of Sylhet Government Women's College. It consists of 3 buildings, a dorm, a playground and 11,000-book-filled library. History Prior to its establishment, there was a small, old, private Madrassah of the Anjuman-e-Islamia which existed in Naiyorpul. In 1913, a member of the Anjuman-e-Islamia, Syed Abdul Majid, established the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah at the site of the old madrasa; as part of his role as the Education Minister of Assam Province, Assam. He gave a speech and addressed the Muslim Fisherman's Society in Kanishail to start raising funds for a high-level madrasa project in Sylhet town. In response, wealthy Mahimal bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylhet
Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate and lush highland terrain. The city has a population of more than half a million and is one of the largest cities in Bangladesh after Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna. Sylhet is one of Bangladesh's most important spiritual and cultural centres. Furthermore, it is one of the most economically important cities after Dhaka and Chittagong. The city produces the highest amount of tea and natural gas. The hinterland of the Sylhet valley is the largest oil and gas-producing region in Bangladesh. It is also the largest hub of tea production in Bangladesh. It is notable for its high-quality cane and agarwood. The city is served by the Osmani International Airport, named after General Bangabir M A G Osmani, the Commander-in-Chief of the Mukti Bahini duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismail Alam
Abū al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ʿAlī ( bn, আবুল আজীজ মোহাম্মদ ইসমাঈল আলী; 1868–1937) was a Bengali politician, teacher and activist of the Khilafat Movement. He wrote poetry in Urdu under the pen name of Ālam (Urdu: ). His Diwan-i-Alam poem led to the Calcutta Alia Madrasa awarding him the title of ''Parrot of Bengal'' in 1910. Early life and family Abul Aziz Muhammad Ismail Ali was born in 1868, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Batiail in Kanaighat, Sylhet District. His father, Mawlana Shah Abdur Rahman Qadri, was a notable mufti by occupation. His younger brother was the scholar Ibrahim Ali Tashna. The family was descended from Shah Taqiuddin, a 14th-century Sufi missionary and companion of Shah Jalal.Monthly Madina, February 2009 (in Bengali) Education Ismail initially studied at home with his father before studying at the Ajiria Madrasa in Fulbari, Golapganj. After getting good results in Arabic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humayun Rashid Choudhury
Humayun Rasheed Choudhury ( bn, হুমায়ূন রশীদ চৌধুরী; 11 November 1928 – 10 July 2001) was a Bangladeshi career diplomat and Speaker of the Jatiyo Sangsad, Speaker of the Bangladesh National Parliament from 1996 to 2001. He was elected president of the 41st session of the UN General Assembly in 1986. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 2018 posthumously by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and education Choudhury was born on 11 November 1928, to a Bengali Muslim political family in Sylhet, erstwhile British India. Their ancestral home is in Shantiganj Upazila, Dargapasha in Sunamganj District. He was the eldest of the seven children of Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (d. 1944) and Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (1910–1974). Abdur was a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly and later a member of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi. Serajunessa was elected a member of Pakistan National Assembly. Choudhury passed the matriculation ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewan Taimur Raja Chowdhury
Dewan Taimur Raja Chowdhury ( bn, দেওয়ান তৈমুর রাজা চৌধুরী; 5 November 1917 – 14 December 1997) was a Bangladeshi politician, landowner and poet. He was the former member of parliament from Sylhet-7 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. Early life Chowdhury was born on 5 November 1917 to a Bengali Muslim family in Rampasha, Bishwanath, Sylhet District, Assam Province, British India. His father was Khan Bahadur Dewan Eklimur Raja Chowdhury and his mother was Meherjan Banu. His paternal grandfather was the renowned Bengali mystic Hason Raja. Chowdhury began his education in Rajaganj Primary School before enrolling at the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah where he did Islamic studies and also studied Bengali, Arabic, Persian and Urdu. He then moved on to study at Rasamay Memorial High School and Sylhet Government High School. He graduated from Murari Chand College. As a student he was the Secretary of Assam Provincial Musli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farid Uddin Chowdhury
Farid Uddin Chowdhury ( bn, ফরিদ উদ্দিন চৌধুরী; born 25 December 1947) is a teacher, politician and businessman. He was the former Member of Parliament for the Sylhet-5 constituency from 2001 to 2008, representing the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party. Early life and education Chowdhury was born on 25 December 1947 into a Bengali Muslim family in Talbari village, Kanaighat, Sylhet District in East Bengal. His father, Abdul Haq Chowdhury, was a Mawlana. Chowdhury completed his secondary education (dakhil) at the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah in 1959. He remained in the madrasa where he finished his ''alim'' course in 1963, ''fazil'' in 1965 and ''Kamil'' degree by 1967. He then moved on to study at the Murari Chand College, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Bengali language in 1971. Career Chowdhury began his career as an imam at the Gohorpur Mosque in Balaganj. He later became the principal of the Shahjalal Jamia School in Mirabazar, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Jalil Choudhury
ʿAbd al-Jalīl ibn Aṣghar Choudhury al-Badarfūrī ( ar, عبد الجليل بن أصغر تشودهري البدرفوري; 19 December 1989), or simply Abdul Jalil Choudhury Badarpuri ( bn, আব্দুল জলিল চৌধুরী বদরপুরী), was a Bengali Deobandi Islamic scholar, teacher and politician. Born in what is now Bangladesh, Choudhury became one of the senior disciples of Hussain Ahmed Madani from Sylhet District. He relocated to Badarpur, Karimganj following the Partition of Bengal in 1947 and served as a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly for several terms. Choudhury has many contributions in Northeast India, covering Islamic and social development, and had participated in the Bengali Language Movement of the Barak Valley. Early life and education Abdul Jalil Choudhury was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Turukkhola in Sylhet District. His father, Asghar Choudhury, was said to have been descended from a migr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri
Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri (died 1948) was an Indian Muslim scholar and jurist who served as the fifth Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Deoband. Biography Muhammad Sahool Bhagalpuri was born in Puraini, Bhagalpur, in a Muslim family that claimed descent to Uthman. Sahool acquired his primary education at home and then studied with Ashraf Alam. He moved to Madrasa Jām'i al-Ulūm Kanpur where he studied with Ashraf Ali Thanwi and Muhammad Ishāq Burdwāni. He then studied with Muhammad Farooq Chiryakoti at Madrasa Faiz-e-Aam. He went to Hyderabad where he studied logic, philosophy, astronomy, literature and fiqh with Lutfullah Aligarhi and Abd al-Wahhāb Bihāri. From Hyderabad, he moved to Delhi and attended lectures of Nazīr Hussain, and then joined Darul Uloom Deoband where he studied ahadith with Mahmud Hasan Deobandi and graduated from there. Sahool was appointed a teacher at Darul Uloom Deoband after his graduation. He taught at the seminary for over eight years. He then served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mushahid Ahmad Bayampuri
Mushāhid Aḥmad Bāyampūrī ( bn, মুশাহিদ আহমদ বায়মপুরী, ar, مشاهد أحمد البايمفوري; 1907–1971) was a Pakistani Bengali Muslim theologian, teacher, writer and politician. He was a member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of Sylhet-II. Early life and education Mohammad Mushahid Ahmad was born on a Friday in Muharram 1327 AH (1907 CE), in the village of Bayampur in Kanaighat, Sylhet District, British Raj. He was the second child of the three sons of his father Qari Alim bin Danish Mian and mother Hafiza Sufia Begum. His father died in his childhood, so he was raised mostly by his mother. Locals referred to him as ''Kalamanik'' due to his dark skin tone and large nose. Bayampuri studied the Qur'an, Bengali and Urdu with his mother at the age of seven years. At that age, he was then enrolled to the local school at Bayampur and later at the Kanaighat Islamia Madrasa (now ''Darul Uloom Kan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Abdullah (academic)
Muhammad Abdullah (1 April 1932 – 21 October 2008) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and academic. He was a professor of Dhaka University and researcher. Early life and education Muhammad Abdullah was born on 1 April 1932 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Bangakhan in Lakshmipur subdivision, Noakhali District, Bengal Province, British Raj. He passed Alim and Fazil from Noakhali Karamatia Madrasa in 1943 and 1945 respectively. He was conferred "Mumtazul Muhaddisin" title from Calcutta Alia Madrasa in 1947. He passed HSC from Haji Mohammad Mohsin College in 1949. He graduated from Dhaka University in Urdu in 1952. He received his post graduate degree from this institution in 1953 in Urdu. He also received his post graduate degree in Islamic Studies and Arabic from Dhaka University in 1972 and 1973 respectively. He was conferred MPhil in 1981. He was also conferred PhD in 1983 in Arabic from Dhaka University. Career Abdullah joined Sylhet Government Alia Madra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Abdul Majid
The Hon'ble Moulvi Khan Bahadur Syed Abdul Majid, CIE ( bn, সৈয়দ আব্দুল মজিদ; 1872–1922), also known by his daak naam Kaptan Miah ( bn, কাপ্তান মিঞা), was a Bengali politician, lawyer and entrepreneur. He is notable for pioneering the development in the agricultural and tea industry in British India as well as his contributions to both secular and Islamic education in Sylhet. Early life Abdul Majid was born in 1872 to a noble Bengali Muslim Syed family in the Kazi Elias neighbourhood in urban Sylhet. His father was Syed Abdul Jalil. His grandfather, Syed Muhibullah, was originally from Moulvibazar and a descendant of the 14th-century Muslim preacher Shah Mustafa. His mother, Hasb-un-Nisa, was the granddaughter of Moulvi Syed Qudratullah. This led to Abdul Majid being brought up in a traditional Islamic household in which he studied to become a moulvi. In addition to Bengali (both Standard and Sylheti), he was fluent in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahimal
The Mahimal ( bn, মাহিমল, Mahimal), also known as Maimal ( bn, মাইমল, Maimol), are a Bengali Muslim community of inland fishermen predominantly indigenous to the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh and the Barak Valley in Assam, India. Origins According to the traditions of the community, the word Mahimal comes from the Persian word ''māhi'' (ماهی) meaning fish and the Arabic word ''mallāḥ'' (ملاح) meaning boatman. The Mahimal are said to become Muslims through the efforts of the Sufi saint, Shah Jalal, and his disciples. They are found along the banks of the Sonai and Barak rivers, predominantly in Assam's Barak Valley districts though some can also be found in the Sylhet District. The community converse in the Sylheti dialect of the Bengali language. Present circumstances The Mahimal were a community of inland fishermen, but most are now settled agriculturists. They are mainly marginal farmers, growing paddy and vegetables. A small number of Mahimal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylhet Town
Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate and lush highland terrain. The city has a population of more than half a million and is one of the largest cities in Bangladesh after Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna. Sylhet is one of Bangladesh's most important spiritual and cultural centres. Furthermore, it is one of the most economically important cities after Dhaka and Chittagong. The city produces the highest amount of tea and natural gas. The hinterland of the Sylhet valley is the largest oil and gas-producing region in Bangladesh. It is also the largest hub of tea production in Bangladesh. It is notable for its high-quality cane and agarwood. The city is served by the Osmani International Airport, named after General Bangabir M A G Osmani, the Commander-in-Chief of the Mukti Bahini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
