| Honorific Prefix: | Mawlana | ||||||||||
| Momtazuddin Ahmad | |||||||||||
| Native Name: | মমতাজুদ্দীন আহমদ | ||||||||||
| Religion: | Islam | ||||||||||
| Denomination: | Sunni | ||||||||||
| Jurisprudence: | Hanafi | ||||||||||
| Children: | Moudud Ahmed | ||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 1889 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Manikpur, Noakhali District, Bengal Presidency | ||||||||||
| Death Place: | Bangladesh | ||||||||||
| Students: | Amimul Ehsan Barkati | ||||||||||
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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 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]
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. 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]
Ahmad married Begum Ambia Khatun. His fourth son, Moudud Ahmed, served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1988 to 1989.[4]
Ahmad primarily wrote in Arabic, Bengali and Urdu. Among his published works are:
Ahmad died in 1974.[6]