Mawlana Murad ( ar, , bn, মাওলানা মুরাদ) was an Islamic scholar and teacher based in the city of Mecca in Ottoman Arabia.

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Murad was born in the 1700s in Bengal. Following the

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in 1757 and the subsequent rise in British colonial authority, some Bengali Muslims such as Murad had become so concerned that they made the decision to emigrate to

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such as the Ottoman Empire. Murad settled in the city of Mecca in the 18th century and became recognised as a knowledgeable Islamic scholar, which is why he was referred to with the honorific prefix of Mawlana. In 1799, a group of Bengalis, including Basharat Ali and 18-year old Shariatullah Taluqdar, migrated to Mecca and were offered accommodation in Murad's residence. Murad taught fiqh, Arabic literature, and the history of Islam to Shariatullah for two years.

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