Shams al-ʿUlamāʾKhān BahādurMawlānā Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri | |
|---|---|
আহমদ আলী এনায়েতপুরী | |
| Member of theBengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1938–1945 | |
| Succeeded by | Tofazzel Hossain[1] |
| Constituency | Jhenaidah |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Ahmed Ali 21 January 1898 |
| Died | 4 January 1959(1959-01-04) (aged 60) |
| Political party | All-India Muslim League |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Tariqa | Silsila-e-Furfura |
| Muslim leader | |
| Teacher | Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique |
Ahmed Ali Enayetpuri (Bengali:আহমদ আলী এনায়েতপুরী) was aBengali writer, journalist, and politician.
Ahmed Ali was born on 21 January 1898, to aBengali Muslim family in the village ofEnayetpur inJessore District,Bengal Presidency. The family hadIraqi ancestry. His father, Shah Abed Ali (d. 1956), was aMawlana and his mother's name was Sayeda Khatun.[citation needed]
He studied at the Shajiali Lower Primary School under Pandit Dvijabar Charkabarti and others. After that he enrolled at the Jessore District School, studying until class 8. His father realised Ali's lack of interest and enrolled him at theCalcutta Alia Madrasa instead. In Calcutta, Ali completedIslamic studies and learntArabic under MawlanaGul Muhammad Khan and MawlanaBashir Ahmad. However, instead of completing his studies at themadrasa, Ali came under the influence ofMohammad Abu Bakr Siddique, the inauguralPir ofFurfura Sharif. Siddique taught him Islamic theology,Persian andUrdu.[2] Enayetpuri later self-learned English too and was conferred the title ofShamsul Ulama. Not long after his studies, hispir instructed him to give public speeches, calling towards Islam.[3]
Enayetpuri foundedSariat (also spelledSariyat), a monthly magazine, in 1924 and became its editor. He renamed the newspaperSariat-i-Islam. It was the soleHanafi publication in Kolkata. It was dogmatic.[4][5] He served as the editor of theSariat-i-Islam for 32 years. In 1934, theBritish Raj awarded him the title ofKhan Sahib. He served as a member of the Jessore District Board.[citation needed]
In 1937 he was elected to theBengal Legislative Assembly fromJhenaidah constituency as a candidate of theAll India Muslim League. In the assembly he introduced a bill to make primary education free.[2][6] He was awarded the title ofKhan Bahadur in 1938.[7]
Enayetpuri died on 4 January 1959 in Enayetpur, Jessore District,East Bengal, Pakistan.[2]