Abdur Rahman Kashgarhi

Abdur Rahman Kashgarhi was an Islamic Scholar from East Turkestan who was the first Khatib of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque of Bangladesh.[1][2]

Biography

Kashgarhi was born in Kashgar, East Turkestan (present-day Xinjiang, China).[3] He taught at Nadwatul Ulema in Lucknow.[3] He received a Fazil-e-Adab degree from the University of Lucknow.[3]

Kashgarhi started teaching at an Alia madrassah in Kolkata in 1938.[3] After the Partition of India the madrassah and Kashgarhi moved to Dhaka and he was promoted to the role of head maulana.[3] He wrote poetry which expressed his love for Islam and Pan-Islamism ideology.[3] He compiled a trilingual dictionary of Arabic, Bengali, and Urdu called Al-Mufid.[3]

Kashgarhi died in 1971. He had remained a lifelong bachelor.[3] Maulana Muhiuddin Khan was his disciple.[4]

References
  1. "কালের কিংবদন্তি আল্লামা আব্দুর রহমান কাশগরি রহ" (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  2. দিগন্ত, Daily Nayadiganta-নয়া. "স্ম র ণ : অধ্যক্ষ আল্লামা মুহাম্মদ ফখরুদ্দীন (রহ:)". Daily Nayadiganta (নয়া দিগন্ত) : Most Popular Bangla Newspaper (in Bengali). Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  3. Alam, AKM Nurul (3 August 2021). "Kashgarhi, Abdur Rahman". Banglapedia. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Retrieved 2022-04-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "মাওলানা মুহিউদ্দীন খান : বাংলায় ইসলামী সাহিত্যের এক কিংবদন্তি". দৈনিক জালালাবাদ | Daily Jalalabad. 2019-08-08. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
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