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Ibrahim Chatuli

Moulvi
Ibrahim Ali Chatuli
Chatuli
ইব্রাহীম আলী চতুলী
Education Minister of Assam Legislative Council
In office
1938–1941
Member of the Assam and later the East Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
1946–1954
Preceded byMoulvi Abdus Salam
Succeeded byMokbul Hossain
ConstituencySylhet Sadar-N
Personal
Born1894
Haratail, Barachatul Union, Kanaighat, Sylhet District, British Raj
Died1984 (aged 89–90)
Sylhet, Bangladesh
ReligionIslam
Parent
  • Munshi Abdul Karim (father)
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
MovementDeobandi
Political partyJamiat Ulema-e-Hind
Muslim leader
Disciple ofHussain Ahmed Madani

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 4 January 2022.
  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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