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This category includes Muslims who are of Bengali descent including present-day India (for Muslims from only Bangladesh see, Category:Bangladeshi Muslims). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
By then, Buddhism had declined in Punjab after the fall of the Kushans, and had largely disappeared by the turn of the 10th century. [18] Several scholars have identified Takka kingdom with the kingdom of al-Usaifan, whose king is reported by al-Biladhuri to have converted to Islam during the reign of Caliph al-Mu'tasim (r. 833–842). [19]
Najib Ali Choudhury (Bengali: নজিব আলী চৌধুরী) was a 19th-century Bengali Islamic scholar and teacher. He was notable for his founding of the Madinatul Uloom Bagbari , the first madrasa in the Barak Valley region.
Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam (1 C, 119 P) Sultans of Bengal (3 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Bengali Muslims" The following 122 pages are in this category, out of ...
Haji Shariatullah (Bengali: হাজী শরীয়তুল্লাহ; 1781–1840) was a prominent religious leader and Islamic scholar from Bengal in the ...
While proto-Bengali emerged during the pre-Islamic period, the Bengali literary tradition crystallised during the Islamic period. As Persian and Arabic were prestige languages, they significantly influenced vernacular Bengali literature. The first efforts to popularise Bengali among Muslim writers was by the Sufi poet Nur Qutb Alam.
As a result of his methodology, Al Jamia Al Islamia Patiya opened its Department of Bengali Language and Literature in 1952 and its Department of Qira'ah in 1975. [13] In 1934, Abd al-Wahhab started the Islam Prachar, a monthly magazine with Abul Farah as the chief editor. This was the first Deobandi monthly in the Bengali language. [14]
Islam was introduced via southern Punjab in the 8th century, becoming the majority by the 16th century, via local conversion. [ 78 ] [ 79 ] There was a small Jain community left in Punjab by the 16th century, while the Buddhist community had largely disappeared by the turn of the 10th century. [ 80 ]