Muhammad Nurul Haque was a Bangladeshi cultural activist, social worker, and a writer.

Career

Haque started his own magazine, ''Abhizan'', while still studying at Sylhet Government Aliya Madrasah. He was the founding Secretary of Sylhet Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Sangsad. He edited Al-Islah, the official magazine of Sylhet Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Sangsad, for 48 years. He was a Muslim Nationalist who support the

Pakistan Movement The Pakistan Movement was a religiopolitical and social movement that emerged in the early 20th century as part of a campaign that advocated the creation of an Islamic state in parts of what was then British Raj. It was rooted in the two-nation the ...

. He organized the July

1947 Sylhet referendum The 1947 Sylhet referendum was held in Sylhet District of the Assam Province of British India to decide whether the district would remain in undivided Assam and therefore within the post-independence Dominion of India, or leave Assam for Ea ...

that decided whether Sylhet would join the future state of Pakistan or India. He support the

Bengali Language Movement The Bengali language movement was a political movement in East Bengal (modern-day Bangladesh) in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua franca of the then-Dominion of Pakistan to allow its use in government ...

and wrote in favor of making Bengali the State language of Pakistan. On 19 August 1963, he was awarded the Tamgha-i-Khidmat by the Government of Pakistan. In 1971, he support the Independence of Bangladesh following the outbreak of Bangladesh Liberation war and denounced his Tamgha-i-Khidmat award. Jatiya Grantha Kendra awarded him a gold medal for his contribution to Bengali literature. In 1986, he was given a

Bangla Academy The Bangla Academy (, ) is the official regulatory body of the Bengali language in Bangladesh. It is an autonomous institution funded by the Government of Bangladesh that fosters the Bengali language, literature and culture, works to develop an ...

fellowship.

Bibliography

*Sangbad-patra Sebai Sylheter Musalman (1969) *Shesh Nabir Bani (1970) *Alok Stambha (1980) *Bigata yuger Adasha (1981) *Hazrat Shaykh Jalal Mujarrader Shishygan (1982)

Death

Haque died on 2 September 1987.

References

External links

Obituary
at the ''Daily Star'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Haque, Muhammad Nurul Year of birth missing Year of death missing Bangladeshi journalists 20th-century Bangladeshi writers People from Bishwanath Upazila Pakistan Movement activists from Bengal 20th-century Bangladeshi journalists