Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy

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Abdullah al-Mamun Suhrawardy
Suhrawardy in 1929
Member of Indian Legislative Assembly
In office
1926 – 13 January 1935
Preceded byMohammad Shams-us-Zoha
Succeeded byChowdhury Muhammad Ismail Khan
ConstituencyBurdwan & Presidency
Personal details
Born(1877-05-31)31 May 1877
Calcutta University

Sir Abdullah al-Mamun Suhrawardy (31 May 1877 – 13 January 1935)

Calcutta University[2]

Early life and education

Suhrawardy was the eldest son of

Calcutta University in 1908. While studying for the Bar, he achieved an M.A. degree from the London University and used to add to his slender allowance from India by lecturing on Arabic letters and jurisprudence, subjects to which he contributed in his later writings and teachings much of value and freshness.[1]

Career

Deeply impressed by his contact with the Muslims of the Near East, he founded and was the first secretary of the Pan-Islamic Society of London. He took some part in the expression of Indian Muslim opinion on the

Morley–Minto Reforms
. On returning to Calcutta to practice at the Bar, he was elected to the reformed Bengal Legislative Council.

While the

Muhammad Shafi
as secretary of the All-India Muslim Association. He also took part in the work of the National Liberal Federation until in 1924 his Islamic zeal led to his acceptance of the presidency of the Khilafat Committee, Calcutta.

Suhrawardy never countenanced civil disobedience or boycott of government and held firmly to the principles of corporate communal expression with which he had been identified. Hence he accepted the nomination of Government, as a member of the Legislative Assembly, to the Indian Central Committee which in 1928-9 cooperated with the Simon Commission. He took strong exception to what he regarded as the arbitrary conduct of the proceedings by the chairman, Sir C. Sankaran Nair. A Supplementary Note that he handed in for publication did not appear in the Report, but was officially published (with the omission of some "purple patches" reflecting on the chairman) a few months later.

Publication of The Sayings of Muhammad in 1905 prompted the start of correspondence between al-Suhrawardy and Count Lev Tolstoj, which continued until the latter's death. According to one of Tolstoy's daughters (information from the preface to the reprint edition of the Sayings) a copy of the Sayings was found in one of the pockets of the overcoat he was wearing when he died.

Writings and academia

Suhrawardy's major works include Sayings of Muhammad (1905 with a reprint in 1938), First Steps in Muslim Jurisprudence (1906) and Outlines of the Historical Development of Muslim Law. He also took a share in local self-government activities in the Tollygunge municipality and the Midnapore district board from 1920 till 1923. Suhrawardy was knighted in 1931.[3] Suhrawardy was also regularly contributed to magazines like Nabanoor and The Kohinoor.[4]

Private life

Suhrawardy was married to Sahebzadi Ahmedi Begum, a daughter of Sahebzada Mirza Mohamed Ali Nakey. They did not have any children.[2] Mirza Mohamed Ali was an elected member of Bengal Legislative Council from the constituency of 24-Pargana Municipal South appointed in June 1921.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Khan, Muhammad Mojlum. "Remembering Professor Sir Abdullah al-Ma'mun Suhrawardy (B. 1877 – D. 1935)" (PDF). Bengal Muslim Research Institute. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Obituary: Sir A. Suhrawardy". The Times. 14 January 1935. p. 19.
  3. ^ "No. 33722". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1931. p. 3624.
  4. OL 30677644M
    . Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  5. ^ Bengal (India) (1922). Quarterly civil list for Bengal. Bengal secretariat book depot.

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