Abdul Ghani Sarkar
Mawlana Abdul Ghani Sarkar | |
|---|---|
আব্দুল গনী সরকার | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 1907/1908 Langalmora, Chatmohar, Pabna District |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Education | Hammadia Madrasa Calcutta Alia Madrasa |
| Teachers | Yahya Sahasrami Mushtaq Ahmad Kanpuri |
| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | ʿAbd al-Ghanī عبد الغني |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn ʿIlm ad-Dīn بن علم الدين |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | as-Sarkār السركار al-Fābnawī الفابنوي |
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Maulana ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn ʿIlm ad-Dīn as-Sarkār al-Pābnawī (Arabic: عبد الغني بن علم الدين السركار الفابنوي, Bengali: আব্দুল গনী সরকার) was a Bengali Islamic scholar. He is the founder of Jamia Mahmudia Darus Salam in Mymensingh.
Biography[edit]
Abdul Ghani Sarkar was born between 1907 and 1908 to a Bengali Muslim family of Sarkars in the village of Langalmora in Chatmohar, Pabna District. His father, Ilmuddin Sarkar, later relocated the family to Rashidpur village in Tangail after Langalmora was flooded and destroyed. Abdul Ghani Sarkar completed his primary education in various madrasas in the greater Mymensingh region. After that he joined the Hammadia Madrasa in Dacca where he studied Sharh al-Wiqayah, Nur al-Anwar and other books. He received his alim certification from Dacca in 1928. Sarkar then enrolled at the Calcutta Alia Madrasa where he received his fazil in 1930 and his kamil in Hadith studies (Sihah-e-Sittah) in 1933. Among his teachers of Hadith were Mawlana Yahya Sahasrami and Mawlana Mushtaq Ahmad Kanpuri.
Sarkar's career began as an Islamic studies teacher. From 1934, he began teaching at the Mirgarh Madrasa in Panchagarh, Dinajpur. He then became a senior lecturer at the Aramnagar Alia Madrasa in Sarishabari, Jamalpur, Mymensingh from 1941, where he later became a teacher of Hadith.
See also[edit]
- Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish, scholar from Pabna
- Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, scholar from Pabna
- Muhammad Ishaq Pabnawi, member of the East Pakistan Assembly
References[edit]
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