'''''Islam Pracharak''''' was a historic monthly Bengali magazine founded in the late 19th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Sabyasachi |year=2014 |title=The Defining Moments in Bengal: 1920–1947 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHxJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT304 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=113 |isbn=978-0-19-908934-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Chakrabarty |first1=Bidyut |year=2004 |title=The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947: Contour of Freedom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YRyAAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA52 |publisher=Routledge |page=52 |isbn=978-1-134-33275-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rahim |first1=Muhammad Abdur |title=The Muslim Society and Politics in Bengal, A.D. 1757-1947 |date=1978 |publisher=University of Dacca |page=148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VdpDAAAAIAAJ&q=Islam+Pracharak |access-date=13 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Islamic Quarterly |date=1998 |publisher=Islamic Cultural Centre. |pages=45–46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NRVWAAAAYAAJ&q=Islam+Pracharak |access-date=13 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
==History== ''Islam Pracharak'' was founded in September 1891. The magazine was edited by Muhammad Reazuddin Ahmad. The magazine wanted to promote Islamic literature, culture, and history. It encouraged Bengali Muslims to stop religious superstitions. The magazine published translated passages from the Quran and other Islamic religious content. The magazine stopped publication in 1893 but restarted publication in 1899. The magazine was permanently closed in April 1900.<ref name="IP">{{cite web |last1=Ahmed |first1=Wakil |title=Islam Pracharak |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Islam_Pracharak |website=Banglapedia |access-date=13 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref> The magazine supported the Ottoman Empire and wrote that the Russian Empire was encouraging Christians to rebel against the Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Isalāma |first1=Mustāphā Nūraula |title=Bengali Muslim public opinion as reflected in the Bangali press, 1901-1930 |date=1973 |publisher=Bangla Academy |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ue9AAQAAIAAJ&q=Islam+Pracharak |access-date=13 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref> The magazine was conservative and supported the Partition of Bengal.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Amin |first1=S. N. |title=The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939 |date=1996 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-9004106420 |page=233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VcAfpv6x0m4C&dq=Islam+Pracharak&pg=PA233 |access-date=13 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Sarkar |first1=Chandiprasad |title=The Bengali Muslims: A Study in Their Politicization, 1912-1929 |date=1991 |publisher=K.P. Bagchi & Company |isbn=9788170740964 |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WduAAAAMAAJ&q=Islam+Pracharak |access-date=13 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
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