Momtazuddin Ahmad
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 | |
|---|---|
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 |
Early life and education
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
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
Ahmad married Begum Ambia Khatun. His fourth son, Moudud Ahmed, served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1988 to 1989.[5]
Works
Ahmad primarily wrote in Arabic, Bengali and Urdu. Among his published works are:
- Ḥall al-ʿUqdah fī Sharḥ Sabʿ Muʿallaqah[6]
- Sahl al-Maʿālī fī Sharḥ Maqāmāt Badīʿ az-Zāmān al-Hamadhānī
- Niʿmah al-Munʿim fī Sharḥ Muqaddimah Sahih Muslim
- Al-Kawkab ad-Durrī fī Sharḥ Muqaddimah Mishkat al-Masabih
- Kashf al-Maʿānī fī Sharḥ Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
- Nabī Parichay
- Qurān Parichiti
- Paribāgher Shāh Sāheber Jībanī
Death
Ahmad died in 1974.[4]
References
- Barkati, Amimul Ehsan (2014). "ترجمة المؤلف". فقه السنن والآثار (in Arabic). Dār al-Kutub al-ʻIlmīyah. p. 22. ISBN 9782745181114.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 27 October 2023.
- Ullah, Ahmad (1992). পঞ্চম জাতীয় সংসদ সদস্য প্রামাণ্য গ্রন্থ (in Bengali). সুচয়ন প্রকাশন. p. 273.
- Irshad, Ahmed (2005). واقع اللغة العربية في الجامعات الهندية (in Arabic). p. 169.