Nurul Amin was a Pakistani politician and jurist who served as the eighth prime minister of Pakistan from 7 December to 20 December 1971. His term of only 13 days as prime minister was the shortest served in Pakistani parliamentary history. He was also the only Vice President of Pakistan.
The Bengali language movement was a political movement in former East Bengal in 1952,advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua franca of the then-Dominion of Pakistan to allow its use in government affairs,the continuation of its use as a medium of education,its use in media,currency and stamps,and to maintain its writing in the Bengali alphabet / Bengali script
Muhammad Shahidullah was a Bengali linguist,philologist,educationist,and writer.
Nawab Bahadur QaziAbdul Latif was a Bengali Muslim aristocrat,educator and social worker. His title,Nawab was awarded by the British in 1880. He was one of the first Muslims in 19th-century India to embrace the idea of modernisation.
Brahmanbaria is a district in eastern Bangladesh located in the Chittagong Division. Geographically,it is mostly farmland and is topographically part of the Gangetic Plain. It is bounded by the districts of Kishoreganj and Habiganj to the north,Narsingdi District and Narayanganj to the west,Comilla to the south,and the Indian state of Tripura to the east. It was a part of Comilla District until 15 February 1984.
The United Front was a coalition of political parties in East Bengal which contested and won Pakistan's first provincial general election to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. The coalition consisted of the Awami Muslim League,the Krishak Praja Party,the Ganatantri Dal and Nizam-e-Islam. The coalition was led by four major Bengali populist leaders- A. K. Fazlul Huq,Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Maulana Bhashani The election resulted in a crushing defeat for the Muslim League. Veteran student leader of East Pakistan Khaleque Nawaz Khan defeated sitting Prime Minister of East Pakistan Mr. Nurul Amin in Nandail Constituency of Mymensingh district and created history in political arena. Nurul Amin's crushing defeat to a 27 years old young Turk of United Front effectively eliminated the Muslim League from political landscape of the then East Pakistan with United Front parties securing a landslide victory and gaining 223 seats in the 309-member assembly. The Awami League emerged as the majority party,with 143 seats.
Khandakar Abdur Rashid,better known as Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish was a Bangladeshi politician and Islamic scholar. His career spans from the anti-colonial independence movement to the establishment of both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Tarkabagish was the second president of the All Pakistan Awami Muslim League,and served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and later the Parliament of Bangladesh. Despite being a member of the treasury bench,he opposed what he considered to be the repressive mentality of the Nurul Amin government towards the Bengali Language Movement.
Abdul Wahab Khan was the 3rd speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He is the grandfather of Salman Khan,founder of Khan Academy.
Fazlul Quader Chowdhury was a Bengali politician who served as the 5th speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from East Pakistan. He belonged to Ayub Khan's Convention Muslim League. He was also the acting president of Pakistan from time to time when Ayub Khan left the country. His elder brother Fazlul Kabir Chowdhury was the leader of the opposition in East Pakistan assembly. Quader was preceded by Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan of Awami League.
Shams al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Chirāgh ʿAlīal-Farīdfūrī,or simply known as Shamsul Haque Faridpuri was an Islamic scholar,educationist,and social reformer. He was the founder-principal of Jamia Qurania Arabia Lalbagh. He also founded many other madrasas. Organisations which he initiated include;Khademul Islam Jamat and Anjuman-e-Tabligh-al-Quran.
Ashrafuddin Ahmad Chowdhury was a Bengali politician who had served as general secretary of the Congress Party's Bengal branch,member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly and later as the education minister of Pakistan. He was an advocate of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy's United Bengal proposal.
Syed Azizul Huq,also known by his daak naam Nanna Mia,was a Bangladeshi politician and former member of parliament for Barisal-2 in the 1986 and 1988 Bangladeshi general elections. He was a member of the Provincial Council of East Pakistan,minister of commerce and minister of industry.
Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri was a Bengali writer,journalist,and politician.
Syed Ahmad Ullah Maizbhandari was a Bengali Sufi saint and founder of the Maizbhandari Sufi order in Bengal.
Athar Ali was a Bangladeshi Islamic activist,author,teacher and politician. He participated in the Indian independence movement,and was former president of the Nizam-e-Islam Party. Ali was also a khalifah of Ashraf Ali Thanvi,one of the founders of the Deobandi movement.
Moḥammad AbūBakr Ṣiddīque al-Qurayshī was a Bengali Islamic scholar and the inaugural Pir of Furfura Sharif in West Bengal. He is regarded by his followers,who are scattered across eastern India and Bangladesh,as a mujaddid (reviver) of Islam in the region,due to his significant contributions in religious propagation via the establishment of mosques and madrasas,publication of newspapers and education development in neglected areas. He was the founding president of the sociopolitical Anjuman-i-Wazin-i-Bangla organisation,which advocated for causes such as the Khilafat Movement and Pakistan Movement. Siddique died in 1943,and his shrine is greatly venerated as one of West Bengal's most prominent Sufi centres.
ḤāfiẓAḥmad Jaunpūrī was an Indian Muslim scholar,religious preacher and social worker. As the son and successor of Karamat Ali Jaunpuri,he led the Taiyuni reformist movement in Bengal.
ʿAbd al-Awwal Jaunpūrī was an Indian Muslim scholar,religious preacher,educationist,poet and author. Described by Muhammad Mojlum Khan as one of the "most gifted and outstanding" of Karamat Ali Jaunpuri's many children,he displayed an important role leading his father's founded Taiyuni reformist movement in Bengal.
AbūNaṣr Muḥammad Waḥīd,or simply Abu Nasr Waheed,was a Bengali Islamic scholar,educationist,author and politician. He is best known for his reformations to Islamic education in Bengal,and development of Arabic language education among Bengali Muslims. Wahid also served as the Education Minister of British Assam and a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly.
ʿAbd al-Bāṭin Jaunpūrī,also known as Abdul Baten Siddiqi,was an Indian Muslim scholar,religious preacher,educationist. He authored many of the biographies of the leaders of the Taiyuni movement centred in Bengal. He led a peasant movement in Gafargaon,Mymensingh,which eventually led to the establishment of Batinia Madrasa.
