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Syed Mujtaba Ali was born on 13 September, 1904 in Karimganj, Sylhet, North-East Frontier, British India (present-day Assam, India), is an Indo-Bangladeshi author and scholar (1904–1974). Discover Syed Mujtaba Ali's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Writer · journalist · teacher · travel enthusiast · academic · linguist
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 13 September, 1904
Birthday 13 September
Birthplace Karimganj, Sylhet, North-East Frontier, British India (present-day Assam, India)
Date of death 11 February, 1974
Died Place Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality India

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His wife is Rabeya Khatun (m. 1951-1974)

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Parents Khan Bahadur Syed Sikandar Ali (father) Amtul Mannan Khatun (mother)
Wife Rabeya Khatun (m. 1951-1974)
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1904

Syed Mujtaba Ali (সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী, ; 13 September 1904 – 11 February 1974) was a Bangladeshi writer, journalist, travel enthusiast, academic, scholar and linguist.

He lived in Bangladesh, India, Germany, Afghanistan and Egypt.

Ali was born on 13 September 1904 to a Bengali Muslim family in Karimganj, Sylhet district, British Raj.

His father, Khan Bahadur Syed Sikander Ali, was a sub-registrar.

He traced his paternal descent to Shah Ahmed Mutawakkil, a local holy man and a Syed of Taraf, though apparently unrelated to Taraf's ruling Syed dynasty.

Ali's mother, Amatul Mannan Khatun, belonged to the Chowdhuries of Kala and Bahadurpur, an Islamised branch of the Pal family of Panchakhanda.

Mujtaba was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom being the writer Syed Murtaza Ali.

Ali passed the matriculation exam from Sylhet Government Pilot High School though was said to have not passed his intermediate exam from MC College.

1919

In 1919 when Rabindranath Tagore was visiting Sylhet, Mujtaba Ali met Tagore who had great influence on Mujtaba Ali's writings.

1921

Later, in 1921 Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet after some Hindu students were punished from taking flowers from the District Commissioners house for Puja.

In the same year 1921, he went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926 with B.A. degree.

He was among the first graduates of the Visva-Bharati.

He studied for a brief period in Aligarh Muslim University.

1927

Later, he moved to Kabul to work in the Education Department (1927–1929) as a professor.

1928

He left Afghanistan following Habibullāh Kalakāni taking control of Kabul during the Afghan Civil War (1928–1929).

His name was struck off the evacuation list by Francis Humphrys, first British Minister to the Amir of Afghanistan, Amānullāh Khān, after he criticized the airlifting of Europeans before British Indian citizens.

1929

From 1929 to 1932, Ali went to Germany with Wilhelm Humboldt scholarship and studied at the universities in Berlin and later in Bonn.

1932

He earned his PhD from the University of Bonn with a dissertation on comparative religious studies on Khojas in 1932.

1934

Ali then studied at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo during 1934–1935.

1936

He taught at a college in Baroda from 1936 until 1944, and in 1949 was principal of Azizul Huq College in Bogra, East Bengal.

1947

After the Partition of India into India and Pakistan in 1947, Ali went from India to the then East Pakistan.

He was one of the first to call for Bangla as East Pakistan's state language on 30 November 1947, at the Sylhet Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Samsad.

He was a prominent activist and supporter of Bengali as the national language of East Pakistan.

1948

In 1948, being the principal of Azizul Huq College, Bogra, he wrote an essay, 'The State Language of East Pakistan', which was printed in Chaturanga of Kolkata.

During that time, the West Pakistan Rulers tried to impose Urdu as the only state language of East Pakistan while Bengali was spoken by most of the people.

The government of Pakistan demanded an explanation.

But Ali resigned and moved to India.

1949

He slipped back to India in August 1949, tipped off by a friend, according to Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, that Pakistani authorities intended to arrest him for his vocal support of the Bengali language movement.

1950

After a brief stint at Calcutta University in 1950, he became Secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and editor of its Arabic journal Thaqafatul Hind.

1951

In 1951, he married Rabeya Khatun, the headmistress of Sylhet Government Girls High School, a match arranged by his sisters.

1952

From 1952 to 1956 he worked for All India Radio at New Delhi, Cuttack and Patna.

1956

He then joined the faculty of Visva-Bharati University (1956–1964) as professor of German language and later of Islamic Culture.

1972

He lived in Calcutta till early 1972.

In 1972, after the Independence of Bangladesh, Ali returned to Bangladesh.

1974

Following the Liberation of Bangladesh, he moved with his family to Dhaka and lived there till his death in 1974.

Ali's mother tongue was Bengali and Sylheti, but he also could speak English, French, German, Italian, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Gujarati, and Pashtu.

Alongside Natya Guru Nurul Momen and Jajabar (Binay Mukhopadhyay), Ali was one of the trail-blazers of a unique category of Bengali writing.

'Ramya Rachana' in the Bengali language, an anecdotal story-telling – often based on real-life experiences – became immensely popular, mostly because of the attractive writing style of Ali.

Deshe Bideshe, the story of his journey to and experiences in Kabul during his brief stint as professor in a college there is one of Ali's best works.

Panchatantra is a collection of thoughts and short stories (some already published in 'Desh' magazine) of his days in Europe, Cairo and Baroda.