Muhammad Wajed Ali (September 12, 1896 – November 8, 1954) was an East Pakistani (current Bangladesh) Writer and Journalist.

Early life

Ali was born in 1896 in Banshdaha,

Satkhira District Satkhira District (; ) is a district in southwestern Bangladesh and is part of Khulna Division. It lies along the border with West Bengal, India. It is on the bank of the Arpangachhia River. The largest city and headquarter of this district is Satk ...

Bengal Presidency The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal until 1937, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule in India, Company rule and later a Provinces o ...

(British Ruling Period). His father was the village doctor who encouraged Ali to read. He studied at the Middle English School in Banshdaha and English High School in Babulia. He studied B.A. in Kolkata at the

Bangabasi College Bangabasi College is a Kolkata-based liberal arts, commerce and sciences college. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the University of Calcutta. It was founded by Girish Chandra Bose, an educationist, social reformer and agric ...

Career

Ali dropped out of college and joined the non-cooperation movement against the British colonial government after being inspired by

Mohammad Akram Khan Mohammad Akram Khan (; 1868 – 18 August 1968) was a Bengali journalist, politician and Islamic scholar. He was the founder of Dhaka's first Bengali newspaper, ''The Azad''. He was among the founders of Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind. Early life and edu ...

. He worked as the editor in a number of newspapers from 1920 to 1935. He worked at

The Mohammadi ''The Mohammadi'' was a Bengali language monthly art journal. It was founded by Mohammad Akram Khan who worked as its editor. History ''The Mohammadi'' was founded in August 1927 in Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British Raj The British Ra ...

Nabajug ''Nabajug'' () was a Bengali-language daily newspaper published from 1920 to 1944. History The newspaper was founded in Kolkata on 12 July 1920 by A. K. Fazlul Huq. The first editors were Kazi Nazrul Islam Kazi Nazrul Islam (24 May 1899 ...

, Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Patrika, Saogat, Samyabadi, Mahe Nao and Sebak. He wrote a number of books including ''Mohamanush Mohsin'' , ''Morubhaskar'', ''Syed Ahmad'', ''Chotoder Hazrat Muhammad'', ''Sharnandoni'' and translated many books into Bengali. Following retirement he moved to Banshdaha from Kolkata in 1935 He criticized Bengali Muslim preachers for not using the Bengali language to preach.

Death

Ali died on 8 November 1954 in Banshdaha, Satkhira District,

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

(now, Bangladesh)

References

{{Authority control 1896 births 1954 deaths People from Satkhira District Bengali Muslims Bengali writers 20th-century Pakistani writers