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Ibrahim Ali Chatuli ( Arabic: إبراهيم على (جتولي); Bengali: ইব্রাহীম আলী চতুলী; 1894–1984) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician and social reformer. He was the Education Minister of Assam Legislative Council,[1] and an elected Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind political party. His constituency joined the East Bengal Legislative Assembly after the Partition of India in 1947.[2][3][4]

Early life

Ibrahim Ali Chatuli was born in 1894, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Haratail in Barachatul Union, Kanaighat, Sylhet District. His father Munshi Abdul Karim was a scholar and poet. He studied at Jhingabari Alia Madrasa in Kanaighat, Ajiria Madrasa in Golapganj and Rampur Madrasa in India. He was a disciple of Hussain Ahmad Madani.[3][2]

Career

Ibrahim Chatuli was for a long time the Imam and Khatib of Sylhet Nayasarak Jame Mosque. In 1938 he was elected a Member of the British Parliament from Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind. After that he was the Education Minister of Assam Provincial Council. During the 1946 Indian provincial elections, he was elected as a Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in the Sylhet Sadar-N constituency.[5][6] After the Sylhet referendum which incorporated the district into Pakistan, he became a member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly.[4][7][8][9]

Was the general secretary of the then Ulema-e-Hind in the province of Assam, The undisputed leader of the anti-British movement (Indian independence movement), the Secretary General of the All India Students Federation.[3]

Death

Chatuli died in 1984.[3]

References

  1. ^ সিলেটের তিনটি আসন পুনরুদ্ধারে তৎপর জমিয়ত. Ourislam24.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  2. ^ a b Md. Manibur Rahman (2019). বাংলার আলেম সংসদ সদস্য (১৯৩৭ -২০১৮) (in Bengali). Bangladesh: Ekattor Prokashoni. p. 270. ISBN 9789848094372.
  3. ^ a b c d Muhammad Abdur Rahim (2019). কানাইঘাটের স্মরণীয় বরণীয় যাঁরা (in Bengali). Bangladesh: Pandulipi Prokashon. p. 128. ISBN 9789848031629.
  4. ^ a b Syed Mostafa Kamal (19 August 2017). ১৯৪৭-এ সিলেটের সাড়ে তিন থানা হিন্দুস্তানে যাওয়ার রঙ্গমঞ্চের অন্তরালে. The Daily Sangram (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 4 January 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Assam Legislative Assembly - MLA 1946-1952". 24 August 2012. Archived from the original on 12 February 2020.
  6. ^ "সিলেট-৫: একাল সেকাল". Sylhet Report (in Bengali). 28 December 2018.
  7. ^ Kamal Uddiin Ahmed. Karimganjer Itihas. India. p. 252.
  8. ^ Star of India, August 15, 1946. India.
  9. ^ Atul Hye Shibly. India. p. 132.
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