Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Sangsad কেন্দ্রীয় মুসলিম সাহিত্য সংসদ | |
Country: | Bangladesh |
Location: | Dorgah gate, Sylhet, Bangladesh |
Coordinates: | 24.9018°N 91.8692°W |
Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Sangsad (Bengali: কেন্দ্রীয় মুসলিম সাহিত্য সংসদ) (Sylhet Central Muslim Literary Society) is a literary organisation located in Sylhet, Bangladesh. It is the one of the oldest organisations of its kind in the Indian sub-continent and the oldest in Bangladesh. It was founded on 16 September 1936 by Muhammad Nurul Haque. It has the largest non-government collection of books, magazines, inscriptions etc. Some of them date back to the 13th century AD.[1]
The former presidents of the organisation include many writers, critics and poets from Sylhet such as Syed Mujtaba Ali, Dewan Mohammad Azraf and Dilwar Khan.