{{Short description|Bengali writer}} {{More citations needed|date=May 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox person |name=Sheikh Abdur Rahim |birth_date=1859 |birth_place=24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India |death_date={{death date and age|1931|07|14|1859|df=y}} |death_place=24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India |relatives=Anisuzzaman (grandson)<ref name=anis/> }} '''Sheikh Abdur Rahim''' (1859 – 14 July 1931) was a Bengali writer and journalist.<ref name=anis>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/professor-anisuzzaman-the-man-and-the-academic-1490467 |title=Professor Anisuzzaman: The man and the academic |date=2017-11-13 |work=The Daily Star |language=en |access-date=2019-03-16}}</ref><ref name="bpedia" />
== Early life == Sheikh Abdur Rahim was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Sheikhs in 1859 in Muhammadpur, Basirhat, 24-Parganas, in the then British India. His father was Munshi Sheikh Golam Yahia.<ref name="bpedia" /> His mother died at a young age, and he was subsequently raised by Radhamadhav Basu. Basu was the zamindar of Taki and a deputy magistrate. Rahim studied at a school in Taki and went to high school in Kolkata. He could not complete his education as a result of contracting smallpox.<ref name="bpedia">{{Cite web |url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Rahim,_Sheikh_Abdur |title=Rahim, Sheikh Abdur |last=Haque |first=Khondkar Sirajul |website=Banglapedia |language=en |access-date=2018-08-12}}</ref>
==Career== Rahim was very aware of the Bengali Muslim community's wealth and history. He edited Sudhakar in 1889 and Islam Pracharak in 1891. He would also go on to work for Mihir, Mihir O Sudhakar, Moslem Bharat, Moslem Hitaisi Hafez, and Islam-Darshan. He was a member of the Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Samiti, Calcutta Central Textbook Committee, Calcutta Mohammedan Union, and Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. He was an entrance examiner of Bengali language at the University of Calcutta.<ref name="bpedia" />
===Bibliography=== * ''Hazrat Muhammader Jibon Chorito O Dharmaniti'' (1887) * ''Islam Etibritto'' (1910) * ''Islam Neeti-1'' (1925) * ''Islam Neeti-2'' (1927) * ''Quran O Hadither Upodeshaboli'' (1926) * ''Namajtotto Ba Namaj Bishoyok Juktimala'' (1898) * ''Hajjbidhi'' (1903) * ''Rojatotto'' (1928) * ''Khotba'' (1932) * ''Islamer Totto''
== Death == Rahim died on 14 July 1931 in his own village.<ref name=bpedia />
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==External links== * {{Banglapedia|Rahim,_Sheikh_Abdur}}
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