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Momtazuddin Ahmad

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Momtazuddin Ahmad
মমতাজুদ্দীন আহমদ
Personal
Born1889
Died1974 (aged 84–85)
ReligionIslam
ChildrenMoudud Ahmed
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
Muslim leader
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Aḥmad
أحمد
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn Muḥammad Jalīs
بن محمد جليس
Epithet (Laqab)Mumtāz ad-Dīn
ممتاز الدين
Fakhr al-Muḥaddithīn
فخر المحدثين[1]
Toponymic (Nisba)al-Būiyān
البوئيان
an-Nawākhālawī
النواخالوي

Mawlana Momtazuddin Ahmad (Bengali: মমতাজুদ্দীন আহমদ; 1889–1974) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, author and teacher. He is the father of former Prime Minister Moudud Ahmed.

Early life and education

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Momtazuddin Ahmad was born in 1889 to a Bengali Muslim family of Bhuiyans in the village of Manikpur in Noakhali District, Bengal Presidency. His father, Muhammad Jalees Bhuiyan, was a sheikh.[2]

After finishing primary school, Ahmad moved to Calcutta and became a student at its Alia Madrasa in 1907. He passed from Jamaat-i-Suwam in 1910 and Jamaat-i-Ula in 1913. In 1916, he graduated in Hadith studies from the madrasa and awarded Fakhr al-Muhadditheen (Glory of the Hadith scholars). His Hadith teachers were Ishaq Burdwani and Nazir Hasan Deobandi. His other teachers included Lutfur Rahman Burdwani, Abdul Haq Haqqani and Fazl-e-Haq Rampuri. Ahmad passed his matriculation from the University of Calcutta Board in 1918.[3]

Career

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Ahmad remained in Calcutta after completing his education, teaching Hadith studies at the Calcutta Alia Madrasa from 1919. He also briefly served as a lecturer of Arabic at the Presidency College in 1921.[4] He relocated to the Government Madrasah-e-Alia, Dacca in 1953, six years after the Partition of Bengal. Among his notable students are Amimul Ehsan Barkati.[1]

Personal life

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Ahmad married Begum Ambia Khatun. His fourth son, Moudud Ahmed, served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1988 to 1989.[5]

Works

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Ahmad primarily wrote in Arabic, Bengali and Urdu. Among his published works are:

Death

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Ahmad died in 1974.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Barkati, Amimul Ehsan (2014). "ترجمة المؤلف". فقه السنن والآثار (in Arabic). Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah. p. 22. ISBN 9782745181114.
  2. ^ al-Kumillai, Muhammad Hifzur Rahman (2018). "الشيخ الفاضل مولانا ممتاز الدين أحمد بن الشيخ محمد جليس النواخالوي". كتاب البدور المضية في تراجم الحنفية (in Arabic). Cairo, Egypt: Dar al-Salih.
  3. ^ Azmi, Nur Muhammad. "2.2 বঙ্গে এলমে হাদীছ" [2.2 Knowledge of Hadith in Bengal]. হাদীছের তত্ত্ব ও ইতিহাস [Information and history of Hadith] (in Bengali). Emdadia Library.
  4. ^ a b Nurul Alam, A. K. Muhammad (2012). "Ahmad, Maulana Mumtazuddin". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  5. ^ Ullah, Ahmad (1992). পঞ্চম জাতীয় সংসদ সদস্য প্রামাণ্য গ্রন্থ (in Bengali). সুচয়ন প্রকাশন. p. 273.
  6. ^ Irshad, Ahmed (2005). واقع اللغة العربية في الجامعات الهندية (in Arabic). p. 169.