Momtazuddin Ahmad | |
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মমতাজুদ্দীন আহমদ | |
Personal | |
Born | 1889 |
Died | 1974 (aged 84–85) |
Religion | Islam |
Children | Moudud Ahmed |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
Muslim leader | |
Students | |
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.
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]
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]
Ahmad married Begum Ambia Khatun. His fourth son, Moudud Ahmed, served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1988 to 1989.[5]
Ahmad primarily wrote in Arabic, Bengali and Urdu. Among his published works are:
Ahmad died in 1974.[4]