Abdul Momin Shaykh-e-Imambari | |
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আব্দুল মোমিন ইমামবাড়ী | |
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| Personal life | |
| Born | 1930 |
| Died | 8 April 2020(2020-04-08) (aged 89–90) |
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| Alma mater | Darul Uloom Deoband |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Tariqa | Chishti(Sabiri-Imdadi) Naqshbandi Qadri Suhrawardy |
| Movement | Deobandi |
| Muslim leader | |
| Teacher | Hussain Ahmad Madani Ibrahim Baliyavi Syed Fakhrul Islam Merajul Haq |
| Disciple of | Hussain Ahmad Madani |
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| Amir ofJamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh | |
| In office 4 September 2005 – 8 April 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Ashraf Ali Bishwanathi |
| Succeeded by | Zia Uddin |
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| Political party | Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam |
Abdul Momin Shaykh-e-Imambari (Bengali:আব্দুল মোমিন শায়খে ইমামবাড়ী; 1930 – 8 April 2020) was aBangladeshiIslamic scholar, teacher and politician. He was the former president ofJamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh.[1]
Abdul Momin was born in 1930, to aBengali Muslim parentsMuhammad Abdus Sattar andGulbahar Bibi in the village of Purangaon inNabiganj,Habiganj subdivision (then located under theSylhet district). He studied at the Jāmiʿah Saʿdiyyah Raidhar and Jāmiʿah Islāmiyyah Imambarimadrasas, before setting out toHindustan where he enrolled at theDarul Uloom Deoband seminary. He studied in Deoband for six years, graduating from the faculty ofHadith studies. Among his teachers there wereHussain Ahmad Madani,Ibrahim Baliyavi,Syed Fakhrul Hasan andMerajul Haq. He pledgedbay'ah to Madani and was authorised withkhilafat (spiritual succession) in 1957.[2]
He returned to Bengal after completing his studies, and spent eight years as teacher at Jāmiʿah Islāmiyyah Imambari. He then taught at the Balidhara madrasa in Dinarpur for a year, and then at the Umednagar Title Madrasa in Habiganj and the Jamia Madania ofBishwanath, teaching at both for two years respectively. He was then appointed as the principal of the Jāmiʿah Madaniyyah Nabiganj, and he took on this role for four years. In 1989, he returned to the Imambari madrasa, and served as its principal andShaykh al-Hadith (Professor of Hadith studies) until 2010. He then served as theShaykh al-Hadith of Hossainia Madrasa for a year. In 2012, Imambari became theShaykh al-Hadith ofJamia Darul Qur'an inSylhet for the rest of his life.[3]
Imambari was aligned with the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, having been a member of its student wing,Jamiat Tulaba-e-Arabia from an early age. He became the acting president, and later president, of the Jamiat's Habiganj District branch. On 24 June 2000, he was elected as the patron ofJamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh. After the death ofAshraf Ali Bishwanathi in 2005, a joint conference was held on 4 September between the Jamiat's working council andshura in which Imambari was elected as the president of the nationwide political party.[4] In 2017, he inaugurated a rally on the road fromSylhet toTeknaf in solidarity with theRohingyas who had escapedMyanmar as a result of religious persecution. The rallies were supported by the Bangladeshi parliamentarianShahinur Pasha Chowdhury.[5]
Imambari died on 8 April 2020.[1][2][3]Muhiuddin Khan was his disciple, andUbaydullah Faruq pledgedbay'ah to him during his lifetime, eventually becoming hiskhalifah (spiritual successor).[6] His son, Emdadullah, is aMawlana.[7] Adua ceremony was held at the Jamia Madania madrasa ofBishwanath dedicated to Imambari on 27 September 2020, organised by Shibbir Ahmad Bishwanathi and Hasan bin Fahim.[8]
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| Preceded by | Amir ofJamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh 4 September 2005 – 8 April 2020 | Succeeded by |