Mawlana Momtazuddin Ahmad (; 1889–1974) was a

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, author and teacher. He is the father of former

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Moudud Ahmed Moudud Ahmed (; 24 May 1940 – 16 March 2021) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a standing committee member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Ahmed was elected as a Jatiya Sangsad member five times from the Noakhali-1 and Noak ...

Early life and education

Momtazuddin Ahmad was born in 1889 to a

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family of

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s in the village of Manikpur in

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. His father, Muhammad Jalees Bhuiyan, was a

sheikh Sheikh ( , , , , ''shuyūkh'' ) is an honorific title in the Arabic language, literally meaning "elder (administrative title), elder". It commonly designates a tribal chief or a Muslim ulama, scholar. Though this title generally refers to me ...

. After finishing primary school, Ahmad moved to

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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

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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,

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and Fazl-e-Haq Rampuri. Ahmad passed his

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from the

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Board in 1918.

Career

Ahmad remained in

after completing his education, teaching

at the

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from 1919. He also briefly served as a lecturer of

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at the Presidency College in 1921. He relocated to the

Government Madrasah-e-Alia Government Madrasah-e-Alia (, ) is a government madrasa located in Bakshibazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since its founding, the madrasah has been playing a significant role in imparting and spreading Islamic education. History Alia Madrasah was estab ...

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in 1953, six years after the Partition of Bengal. Among his notable students are Amimul Ehsan Barkati.

Personal life

Ahmad married Begum Ambia Khatun. His fourth son,

, served as the

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from 1988 to 1989.

Works

Ahmad primarily wrote in

and

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. Among his published works are: *''Ḥall al-ʿUqdah fī Sharḥ Sabʿ Muʿallaqah'' *''Sahl al-Maʿālī fī Sharḥ Maqāmāt Badīʿ az-Zāmān al-Hamadhānī'' *''Niʿmah al-Munʿim fī Sharḥ Muqaddimah

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'' *''Al-Kawkab ad-Durrī fī Sharḥ Muqaddimah

Mishkat al-Masabih () by Walī ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb at-Tibrīzī (d.1248) is an expanded and revised version of al-Baghawī's '' Maṣābīḥ as-Sunnah''. Khaṭīb at-Tibrīzī rendered this version of the original ...

'' *''Kashf al-Maʿānī fī Sharḥ

Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī The ''Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī'' (Arabic: مقامات الحريري) is a collection of fifty tales or '' maqāmāt'' written at the end of the 11th or the beginning of the 12th century by al-Ḥarīrī of Basra (1054–1122), a poet and go ...

'' *''Nabī Parichay'' *''Qurān Parichiti'' *''Paribāgher Shāh Sāheber Jībanī''

Death

Ahmad died in 1974.

References

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