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Gaye Holud (Bengali: গায়ে হলুদ), meaning "applying turmeric to the body," is a traditional Bengali pre-wedding ritual where the groom's family, without the groom, visits the bride’s house on the morning of the ceremony to celebrate and perform the turmeric function.
Islami Bishwakosh (Bengali: ইসলামী বিশ্বকোষ, romanized: Islāmī Bishshokōsh, lit. 'Islamic encyclopedia') is an encyclopedia published by the Islamic Foundation Bangladesh. It is of 25 volumes and also a concise version. The project's leading founder was Abdul Haque Faridi, a Bangladeshi educator and scholar. [1]
The word Mahr is related to the Hebrew word “Mohar” and the Syriac word "Mahrā", meaning “bridal gift”, which originally meant “purchase-money”. The word implies a gift given voluntarily and not as a result of a contract, but in Muslim religious law it was declared a gift which the bridegroom has to give the bride when the contract of marriage is made and which becomes the ...
Denmohor is a 1995 Bangladeshi film starring Salman Shah and Moushumi. [ 1 ] This film was an official remake of 1991 superhit Bollywood film Sanam Bewafa . [ 2 ]
Waz Mahfil (alias: Waz, or Tafsir-ul-Quran Mahfil) is a traditional Islamic preaching event in Bangladesh that combines the Arabic words 'waz', meaning "giving advice", and 'mahfil', meaning "gathering". It is a gathering of Muslim devotees and common listeners for sermons on Islam, has long been one of the primary means of preaching Islam in ...
Under the patronage of the Islamic Foundation, an encyclopedia of Islam in the Bengali language was being compiled in the late 1980s. [36] Another step toward further government involvement in religious life was taken in 1984 when the semi-official Zakat Fund Committee was established under the chairmanship of the president of Bangladesh. [36]
Khandaker Abu Nasr Muhammad Abdullah Jahangir (Arabic: أبو نصر محمد عبد الله جهانغير بن خوندكار أنور الزمان, Bengali: খোন্দকার আবু নসর মুহাম্মদ আব্দুল্লাহ জাহাঙ্গীর; (1 February 1961 – 11 May 2016), [2] or Abdullah Jahangir, [3] was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar ...
Many leaders such as Haji Shariyat Ullah, Maulana Karamat and Ali Jaunpuri made great efforts in Bengal for Bengali Muslims but none of them tried to translate the Quran into Bengali. [ 8 ] Girish Chandra Sen ( c. 1834-1910 ), a Brahmo missionary, was the first to translate the entire Quran into Bengali.