{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox religious biography | honorific_prefix = [[Shah]] | name = Oliur Rahman | image = Shah Oliur Rahman.jpg | native_name = ওলিউর রহমান | birth_date = 1916 | birth_place = Batiail, [[Kanaighat Upazila|Kanaighat]], [[Sylhet District]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2006|1|20|1916||}} | death_place = [[Kanaighat Upazila|Kanaighat]], [[Sylhet District]], [[Bangladesh]] | religion = [[Islam]] | denomination = [[Sunni]] | jurisprudence = [[Hanafi]] | movement = [[Deobandi]] | Sufi_order = [[Chishti]] | influences = [[Ashraf Ali Thanwi]]<br>[[Athar Ali Bengali|Athar Ali]]<br>[[Muhammadullah Hafezzi]] | father = [[Ibrahim Ali Tashna]] | relatives = [[Ismail Alam]] (uncle) | teacher = [[Ahmed Ali Lahori]] }} '''Shah Oliur Rahman''' ({{langx|bn|শাহ ওলিউর রহমান}}, {{langx|fa|{{Nastaliq|شاه ولی الرحمن}}}}; 1916 — {{nowrap|20 January}} 2006) was a [[Bangladeshi]] [[Islamic scholar]], writer, politician and [[female education]] activist.
==Early life and education== Oliur Rahman was born in 1916 to a [[Bengali Muslim]] family in the village of Batiail in [[Kanaighat Upazila|Kanaighat]], [[Sylhet District]]. He was the son of [[Ibrahim Ali Tashna]], an Islamic scholar, and Asiya Khatun. His paternal grandfather, [[Mawlana]] [[Mufti]] Shah Abdur Rahman Qadri was descended from Shah Taqiuddin, a 14th-century Sufi missionary and companion of [[Shah Jalal]].<ref name="ReferenceA">[[Sylheter Dak]], 16 January 2009, page 8</ref>
His education began at the Umarganj Primary School, and then at [[Imdadul Uloom Umarganj]] madrasa established by his father.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> In 1937, he completed his ''fazil'' certification from [[Gachhbari Jamiul Uloom Kamil Madrasa]]. The following year, he migrated to the [[Rampur State]] where he enrolled at the [[Madrasa-e-Aliya, Rampur|Rampur Alia Madrasa]], completing [[Hadith studies]] under Mawlana Abdul Khalil and [[tafsir|Quranic exegesis]] under [[Ahmed Ali Lahori]].<ref name="ReferenceB">{{cite book|title=মরমি কবি ইবরাহিম আলী তশনা ও অগ্নিকুণ্ড গানের সংকলন|author=Faruqi, Sarwar|publisher=Madina Publications|year=2009|location=[[Ekushey Book Fair]]|language=bn|trans-title=Mystic poet Ibrahim Ali Tashna and compilation of the Agnikunda song}}</ref>
==Career== From 1956, Oliur Rahman dedicated his life to teaching and spent the rest of his life as the principal of [[Imdadul Uloom Umarganj]] madrasa.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He played an important role in strengthening the foundation of Maktab education. In 1968, he founded and directed a [[Nadiyatul Quran Board]] training camp; the first of its kind in [[Sylhet District]].<ref name="ReferenceB"/> He also organised a weekly women's ''ijtema'' (Islamic conference) in the same year. <ref name="jahan"/> He established ''Madrasatul Banat'', one of the first women's [[madrasa]] in Sylhet, in 1981.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name="ReferenceC">Women For Muslim Education Guide, [[Sylhet]], T.B.</ref> It provided education to women regarding ''[[tajwid]]'', further [[Islamic studies]], [[Bengali literature]], mathematics, dictation, morals and [[handicraft]].<ref>{{cite book|title=হিফজুল কুরআন পরিক্রমা|last=Faruqi|first=Sarwar|publisher=দোআশ|year=2021|page=35|language=bn}}</ref> In 1972, he started the first women's ''jalsa'' (Islamic gathering) in [[Bangladesh]]. Oliur Rahman wrote several books relating to [[female education]] including ''Islahun Neswan'', ''Taharatun Neswan'', ''Talimun Neswan'', ''Haq Prachar'', ''Islah'', ''Hedayater Dawatnama''and ''Muslim Mahila Shikkha''.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
===Political career=== Prior to the [[independence of Pakistan]], Oliur Rahman was associated with the [[All-India Muslim League]]. After independence, he joined the [[Nizam-e-Islam Party]] at the call of his ''[[murshid]]'' [[Athar Ali Bengali|Athar Ali]]. He also founded two organisations of his own in 1979; [[Anjuman-e-Islah al-Muslimeen]] and [[Ittehad-ul-Ulama]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name="ReferenceC"/>
== Personal life == Oliur Rahman first gave [[bay'ah]] to [[Nisar Ali]], but after his death, he pledged allegiance to [[Athar Ali Bengali|Athar Ali]], a student and [[Khalifah (Sufism)|khalifa]] (spiritual successor) of [[Ashraf Ali Thanwi]] until the latter's death in 1976. He then pledged allegiance to [[Muhammadullah Hafezzi]].<ref name="jahan">Muslim Jahan (in Bengali), 4 February 2009</ref>
==Death== Oliur Rahman died on Friday 20 January 2006 at 10:30pm.<ref name="jahan"/><ref>{{cite book|language=bn|title=কানাইঘাটের উলামায়ে কেরাম|volume=1|author=Abdur Rahim, Muhammad|publisher=Pandulipi Prakashan|date=March 2018}}</ref> == See also == * [[List of Deobandis]]
== References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rahman, Oliur}}{{Hanafi scholars}}{{Islam in South Asia}} [[Category:People from Kanaighat Upazila]] [[Category:Deobandis]] [[Category:2006 deaths]] [[Category:1916 births]] [[Category:20th-century Bengali people]] [[Category:21st-century Bengali people]] [[Category:Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam]] [[Category:Bengali-language writers]] [[Category:Nizam-e-Islam Party politicians]] [[Category:Women's education in Bangladesh]]