Ibrahim Ali Chatuli Chatuli | |
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ইব্রাহীম আলী চতুলী | |
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| Education Minister ofAssam Legislative Council | |
| In office 1938–1941 | |
| Member of theAssam and later theEast Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1946–1954 | |
| Preceded by | Moulvi Abdus Salam |
| Succeeded by | Mokbul Hossain |
| Constituency | Sylhet Sadar-N |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 1894 |
| Died | 1984 (aged 89–90) Sylhet, Bangladesh |
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| Political party | Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Muslim leader | |
| Disciple of | Hussain Ahmad Madani |
Ibrahim Ali Chatuli (Arabic: إبراهيم على (جتولي);Bengali:ইব্রাহীম আলী চতুলী; 1894–1984) was aBangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician and social reformer. He was the Education Minister ofAssam Legislative Council,[1] and an elected Member of theAssam Legislative Assembly belonging to theJamiat Ulema-e-Hind political party. His constituency joined theEast Bengal Legislative Assembly after thePartition of India in 1947.[2][3][4]
Ibrahim Ali Chatuli was born in 1894, to aBengali Muslim family in the village of Haratail in Barachatul Union,Kanaighat,Sylhet District. His father Munshi Abdul Karim was a scholar and poet. He studied at Jhingabari Alia Madrasa inKanaighat,Ajiria Madrasa inGolapganj andRampur Madrasa in India. He was a disciple ofHussain Ahmad Madani.[3][2]
Ibrahim Chatuli was for a long time the Imam (prayer leader) and Khatib of Sylhet Nayasarak Jame Mosque. In 1938 he was elected a Member of the British Parliament fromJamiat Ulema-e-Hind. After that he was the Education Minister of Assam Provincial Council. During the1946 Indian provincial elections, he was elected as a Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly (MLA) fromJamiat Ulema-e-Hind in theSylhet Sadar-N constituency.[5][6] After theSylhet referendum which incorporated the district into Pakistan, he became a member of theEast Bengal Legislative Assembly.[4][7][8][9]
He was the general secretary of the then Ulema-e-Hind in the province of Assam, and a leader of theIndian independence movement.[3]
Chatuli died in 1984.[3]