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"name": "Muhammad Muqim",
"bio": "Syed Muhammad Muqim (Bengali: ছৈদ মোহাম্মদ মুকিম) was an 18th-century Bengali poet, author and philosopher who was active during the advent of company rule in Bengal. His puthis are notable as they are interspersed with his own philosophical thoughts on prosody, music, astrology and religions.\nMuqim was born in the 18th century, to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds in the neighbourhood of Noapara in Chittagong. His father, Syed Muhammad Daulat, had origins in Feni. Muqim later became a disciple of Sufi poet Ali Raza, and he was also inspired by the poetry of Muhammad Danesh. After losing his father at an early age, Muqim started his career at the record office of Ali Akbar Chowdhury, a prominent zamindar of Chittagong. Bichitra Sen of The Azadi asserts that there were two poets of Chittagong with the name Muhammad Muqim.\nThis article about a Bangladeshi poet is a stub. You can help Kavishala by expanding it.",
"raw_bio": "Syed Muhammad Muqim (Bengali: ছৈদ মোহাম্মদ মুকিম) was an 18th-century Bengali poet, author and philosopher who was active during the advent of company rule in Bengal. His puthis are notable as they are interspersed with his own philosophical thoughts on prosody, music, astrology and religions. Muqim was born in the 18th century, to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds in the neighbourhood of Noapara in Chittagong. His father, Syed Muhammad Daulat, had origins in Feni. Muqim later became a disciple of Sufi poet Ali Raza, and he was also inspired by the poetry of Muhammad Danesh. After losing his father at an early age, Muqim started his career at the record office of Ali Akbar Chowdhury, a prominent zamindar of Chittagong. Bichitra Sen of The Azadi asserts that there were two poets of Chittagong with the name Muhammad Muqim. This article about a Bangladeshi poet is a stub. You can help Kavishala by expanding it.",
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"name": "Nur Qutb Alam",
"bio": "Nūr Qut̤b ʿĀlam (Arabic: نور قطب عالم, Bengali: নূর কুতুব আলম) was a 14th-century Bengali Islamic scholar, author and poet. Based in the erstwhile Bengali capital Hazrat Pandua, he was the son and successor of Alaul Haq, a senior scholar of the Bengal Sultanate. He is noted for his efforts in preserving the Muslim rule of Bengal against Raja Ganesha and pioneering the Dobhashi tradition of Bengali literature.\nNur Qutb Alam was born in the city of Hazrat Pandua to a Bengali Muslim family descended from Khalid ibn al-Walid, an Arab commander and companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who belonged to the Banu Makhzum clan of Quraysh. Alam's cousins, uncles and grandfathers were all employed by the Sultanate of Bengal, with his brother, Azam Khan, serving as the Wazir (Prime Minister). His father, Alaul Haq, was the court scholar of Bengal and entrusted with its treasury during the reign of Sikandar Shah. His grandfather, Shaykh Asʿad Khālidī, migrated to Bengal from Lahore and served as the Sultanate's Finance Minister. Alam was a classmate of Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah, studying under Qadi Hamiduddin Nagauri in Rajnagar, Birbhum.\nNur Qutb Alam used to do all kinds of manual labour. He personally served his father and the faqirs who came to the khanqah by washing their clothes, carrying water and fuel, keeping water constantly warm for wudu and cleaning the toilets. Other than his children, Shaykh Rafaq ad-Din (father of Shaykh Zahid) and Shaykh Anwar, Alam was also the teacher of Hussam ad-Din Manikpuri and Shah Kaku.\nAlam preferred busying himself with spirituality, which is evident from his rejection to his brother Wazir Azam Khan's request to be employed by the government. He performed Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) several times.",
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"name": "Rahimunnessa",
"bio": "Rahimunnessa (Bengali: রহিমুন্নিসা; 1763–1800) was an 18th-century female Bengali Muslim poet. She wrote poetry in medieval Bengali, notable works of hers include a Bengali translation of the Persian Laily Majnu and the poem Payar Chhanda.\nRahimunnessa was born in Shulukbahar, Chittagong, Bengal and had three siblings; Abdul Jabbar, Abdus Sattar and Abdul Ghaffar. She was born into a Bengali Muslim family descended from Arab tribe of Quraysh. Her forefathers accompanied Husayn ibn Ali to Karbala and fought alongside him. Following the defeat, they moved to place near Baghdad before migrating to Munger in Bihar where they played important military roles. Jali Shah, her grandfather, fled to take refuge in Chittagong after revolting against the British in Bihar. Her father, Abdul Qadir Shah, died when she was very young and she was cared for by her mother, Alimunnesa, who ensured that she received a good education. She was home taught by her mother, as well as her brother Abdul Ghaffar who was an alim, or she may have attended the local maktab. She would have learnt Islamic theology from studying the Qur'an and become proficient in Bengali, Persian and Arabic. She was at one time taught by Abul Husayn of Patiya, and later wrote a tribute to him in one of her poems.\nHer mother arranged her marriage to Ahmad Ali Choudhury, a local dignitary and eldest son of Zamindar Jan Ali Choudhury of Mekhal, Hathazari, where Rahimunnessa found much happiness. They had two daughters; Sameyan Khatun and Durdana Khatun, as well as one son; Siddiq Ahmad Choudhury. Rahimunnessa's granddaughter, Begum Fatema Khatun Choudhury, was the mother of the former acting president of Pakistan Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry and parliamentarian Fazlul Kabir Chowdhury.\nRahimunnessa's works were lost until being rediscovered by Enamul Haq in the 20th century, and further research by Muhammad Shahidullah. During Huq's tenure as a lecturer at Chittagong College, he received a manuscript from a retired college lecturer named Sirajul Huq. Although initially the manuscript was considered Syed Alaol's famous epic poem Padmavati, further investigation revealed that it was a transliteration of the poem written by the medieval female poet by Rahimunnesa. At the end of the transliterated work, she lyrically wrote about her own life history.",
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"name": "Sarasibala Basu",
"bio": "\nSarasibala Basu (1886–1929) was a novelist, story teller, poet from the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. She belonged to the generation of writers of the Bengali Renaissance. In her short lifespan, she had published more than twenty novels, many short stories and poems, and made a big impact on Bengali literature. An equal quantity of her writings had remained unpublished. Sarasibala wrote passionately about the social issues of that period and the world around her.\nSarasibala Basu was born in Kolkata in 1886. Her childhood education began in a missionary school and thereafter she was admitted into another school, Mahakali Pathsala, in North Kolkata. After just one year, she was taken out of the school because of the Hindu prejudice of the time against women's education. At home she learned many things by listening to her brother's reading aloud his lessons. After her early marriage around the year 1900, she came to Giridih in Jharkhand. Her liberal minded husband, Phanindranath Basu, engaged a private tutor for her education at home. She also learned English and art from him.\nWith continuous encouragement from her husband she began to nurture her love of Bengali literature and social work. Her writings, novels and poems, were published in the prestigious periodicals of the day, including, Bharatbarsha, Prabasi, Manashi, and Marmabani. Though she never belonged to the Brahmo Samaj, a social reform movement pioneered by the great Raja Rammohan Roy, its influences are apparent in her writings. She was free from the many prejudices and blind notions of the stagnant Hindu society of her time. Social service and brotherhood of mankind were her most cherished ideals. She became a didi, an elder sister, to many rising stars of Bengali literature, including, Probodh Sanyal, Ashapurna Devi, Narendra Deb, and Nirmal Baral.",
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"name": "Satyendranath Tagore",
"bio": "\nSatyendranath Tagore (1 June 1842 – 9 January 1923) was an Indian civil servant, poet, composer, writer, social reformer and linguist from Kolkata, West Bengal. He was the first Indian who became an Indian Civil Service officer in 1863 He was a member of Bramho Samaj.\nHe was born to Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi on 1 June 1842 at Tagore family of Jorasanko in Kolkata. His wife was Jnanadanandini Devi. They had one son and one daughter Surendranath Tagore and Indira Devi Chaudhurani respectively. He was a student of Presidency College. He was the first Indian officer of Indian Civil Service (ICS). He joined the service in 1864.\nHe wrote many songs. His patriotic Bengali language song \"Mile Sabe Bharat Santan, Ektan Gago Gaan\" (unite, India's children, sing in unison), which was hailed as the first national anthem of India.",
"raw_bio": "Satyendranath Tagore (1 June 1842 – 9 January 1923) was an Indian civil servant, poet, composer, writer, social reformer and linguist from Kolkata, West Bengal. He was the first Indian who became an Indian Civil Service officer in 1863 He was a member of Bramho Samaj. He was born to Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi on 1 June 1842 at Tagore family of Jorasanko in Kolkata. His wife was Jnanadanandini Devi. They had one son and one daughter Surendranath Tagore and Indira Devi Chaudhurani respectively. He was a student of Presidency College. He was the first Indian officer of Indian Civil Service (ICS). He joined the service in 1864. He wrote many songs. His patriotic Bengali language song \"Mile Sabe Bharat Santan, Ektan Gago Gaan\" (unite, India's children, sing in unison), which was hailed as the first national anthem of India.",
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"name": "Shah Muhammad Saghir",
"bio": "Shah Muhammad Sagir (Bengali: শাহ মুহম্মদ সগীর) was one of the earliest Bengali Muslim poets, if not the first.\nShah Muhammad Sagir was a poet of the 14/15th century, during the reign of the Sultan of Bengal Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah. He was born to a Fakir family in Chittagong, the then cultural capital of Arakan.\nHis best known work is Yusuf-Zulekha, which has commendatory verses for Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah. He was the court poet of Azam Shah and wrote the volume at his request. Although it has praise for the parents and teachers of the poet, it does not mention their names or residence. Shah Muhammad Sagir is considered to be the first writer to introduce Perso-Arabic vocabulary into Bengali poetry.\nওস্তাদে প্রণাম কঁরো পিতা হন্তে বাড়\nOstade prônam kôro pita hônte baṛ\nদোসর জনম দিলা তিহঁ সে আহ্মার\nDosôr jônôm dila tĩho she ahmar\n(I respect my teacher more than my father;/ He has given me the second birth of knowledge)",
"raw_bio": "Shah Muhammad Sagir (Bengali: শাহ মুহম্মদ সগীর) was one of the earliest Bengali Muslim poets, if not the first. Shah Muhammad Sagir was a poet of the 14/15th century, during the reign of the Sultan of Bengal Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah. He was born to a Fakir family in Chittagong, the then cultural capital of Arakan. His best known work is Yusuf-Zulekha, which has commendatory verses for Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah. He was the court poet of Azam Shah and wrote the volume at his request. Although it has praise for the parents and teachers of the poet, it does not mention their names or residence. Shah Muhammad Sagir is considered to be the first writer to introduce Perso-Arabic vocabulary into Bengali poetry. ওস্তাদে প্রণাম কঁরো পিতা হন্তে বাড় Ostade prônam kôro pita hônte baṛ দোসর জনম দিলা তিহঁ সে আহ্মার Dosôr jônôm dila tĩho she ahmar (I respect my teacher more than my father;/ He has given me the second birth of knowledge)",
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"name": "Sheikh Fazlul Karim",
"bio": "Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936; Bengali: শেখ ফজলুল করিম), also known by his daak naam Mona (Bengali: মোনা), was a Bengali poet and writer. He was born in Lalmonirhat.\nFazlul Karim was born on 30 Choitro 1289 BS (1882) to the Bengali Muslim of Sardars in the village of Kakina Bazar which was then located in Lalmonirhat, Rangpur district, Bengal Presidency. He was the second of the five sons and three daughters of Amirullah Sardar and Kokila Bibi.\nFazlul Karim was interested in poetry from a young age, and it has been said that there were times when he would escape to go to school whilst only three to four years of age. When he turned five, he joined the Kakina School. At the age of eleven, he published his first handwritten book of poetry, Shorol Poddo Bikash. He then went on to enrol at the Rangpur Zilla School for class six but returned to Kakina School instead where he completed his minor. He was then sent to Rangpur again, but returned home once again.\nFazlul Karim married Basirunnesa Khatun when he was 13 years old.",
"raw_bio": "Sheikh Fazlul Karim (1882–1936; Bengali: শেখ ফজলুল করিম), also known by his daak naam Mona (Bengali: মোনা), was a Bengali poet and writer. He was born in Lalmonirhat. Fazlul Karim was born on 30 Choitro 1289 BS (1882) to the Bengali Muslim of Sardars in the village of Kakina Bazar which was then located in Lalmonirhat, Rangpur district, Bengal Presidency. He was the second of the five sons and three daughters of Amirullah Sardar and Kokila Bibi. Fazlul Karim was interested in poetry from a young age, and it has been said that there were times when he would escape to go to school whilst only three to four years of age. When he turned five, he joined the Kakina School. At the age of eleven, he published his first handwritten book of poetry, Shorol Poddo Bikash. He then went on to enrol at the Rangpur Zilla School for class six but returned to Kakina School instead where he completed his minor. He was then sent to Rangpur again, but returned home once again. Fazlul Karim married Basirunnesa Khatun when he was 13 years old.",
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"name": "Swarnakumari Devi,",
"bio": "\nSwarnakumari Devi (1855 or 1856 – 1932), also known as Swarnakumari Tagore, Swarnakumari Ghosal, Svarṇakumārī Debī and Srimati Svarna Kumari Devi, was an Indian Bengali writer, editor, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright, composer, and social worker.\nSwarnakumari was born as the tenth child to Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi into the Tagore family of Jorasanko, Kolkata in 1855 or 1856. She was the elder sister of Rabindranath Tagore. Her short story Mutiny describes her experience being born just prior to the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.\nSwarnakumari and her sisters did not attend school, but were tutored privately in Sanskrit and English and had the educational benefit of being raised in the Calcutta mansion that was home to the Tagore family. At age 13, she married Janakinath Ghosal, a deputy magistrate. Their children were Hiranmoyee Devi, Sir Jyotsnanath Ghosal and Sarala Devi Chaudhurani.",
"raw_bio": "Swarnakumari Devi (1855 or 1856 – 1932), also known as Swarnakumari Tagore, Swarnakumari Ghosal, Svarṇakumārī Debī and Srimati Svarna Kumari Devi, was an Indian Bengali writer, editor, essayist, poet, novelist, playwright, composer, and social worker. Swarnakumari was born as the tenth child to Maharshi Debendranath Tagore and Sarada Devi into the Tagore family of Jorasanko, Kolkata in 1855 or 1856. She was the elder sister of Rabindranath Tagore. Her short story Mutiny describes her experience being born just prior to the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857. Swarnakumari and her sisters did not attend school, but were tutored privately in Sanskrit and English and had the educational benefit of being raised in the Calcutta mansion that was home to the Tagore family. At age 13, she married Janakinath Ghosal, a deputy magistrate. Their children were Hiranmoyee Devi, Sir Jyotsnanath Ghosal and Sarala Devi Chaudhurani.",
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"name": "Syed Sultan",
"bio": "Syed Sultan (c. 1550 – 1648) was a medieval Bengali Muslim writer and poet. He is best known for his magnum opus, the Nabibangsha (1584), which was one of the first translations of the Qisas Al-Anbiya into Bengali language. His literary works have been included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, and higher secondary Bengali literature in Bangladesh. There are claims that he is the same person as a certain Syed Sultan from Taraf in Greater Sylhet, although this is highly unlikely due to the time periods.\nSultan lived in Patiya under Chakrashala Chakla in Chittagong and also in Paragalpur, Chittagong for a while.\nSultan's complete work including Rasulcharita was published in a book form by the Bangla Academy in 1978.\n",
"raw_bio": "Syed Sultan (c. 1550 – 1648) was a medieval Bengali Muslim writer and poet. He is best known for his magnum opus, the Nabibangsha (1584), which was one of the first translations of the Qisas Al-Anbiya into Bengali language. His literary works have been included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, and higher secondary Bengali literature in Bangladesh. There are claims that he is the same person as a certain Syed Sultan from Taraf in Greater Sylhet, although this is highly unlikely due to the time periods. Sultan lived in Patiya under Chakrashala Chakla in Chittagong and also in Paragalpur, Chittagong for a while. Sultan's complete work including Rasulcharita was published in a book form by the Bangla Academy in 1978. ",
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"name": "Zainuddin",
"bio": "Zainuddin (Bengali: জৈনুদ্দীন or জএনুদ্দিন) was a medieval Bengali poet of the 15th century. He was under the patronage of Prince Yusuf Khan, who would later become the Sultan of Bengal.\nZainuddin was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the 15th century. His father, Moinuddin, claimed descent from Abu Bakr, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the inaugural Rashidun Caliph. Zainuddin was a Sufi murid, and his pir was Shah Muhammad Khan.\nBetween 1472 and 1473, Zainuddin composed a fictional tale titled Rasul Bijay, the source of which is said to have been a novel in the Persian language. Its plot consisted of a war in which Jaikum, a fictional king of Iraq, was defeated by the Muslims who were led by Prophet Muhammad. The book was sponsored by Yusuf Khan, the son of Sultan Rukunuddin Barbak Shah of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty.\nThis article about a Bangladeshi poet is a stub. You can help Kavishala by expanding it.",
"raw_bio": "Zainuddin (Bengali: জৈনুদ্দীন or জএনুদ্দিন) was a medieval Bengali poet of the 15th century. He was under the patronage of Prince Yusuf Khan, who would later become the Sultan of Bengal. Zainuddin was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the 15th century. His father, Moinuddin, claimed descent from Abu Bakr, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the inaugural Rashidun Caliph. Zainuddin was a Sufi murid, and his pir was Shah Muhammad Khan. Between 1472 and 1473, Zainuddin composed a fictional tale titled Rasul Bijay, the source of which is said to have been a novel in the Persian language. Its plot consisted of a war in which Jaikum, a fictional king of Iraq, was defeated by the Muslims who were led by Prophet Muhammad. The book was sponsored by Yusuf Khan, the son of Sultan Rukunuddin Barbak Shah of the Ilyas Shahi dynasty. This article about a Bangladeshi poet is a stub. You can help Kavishala by expanding it.",
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"name": "Anil Ghorai",
"bio": "\nAnil Gharai (alt., Anil Ghařāi, Anil Gharai (Bengali: অনিল ঘড়াই) is a Bengali writer from the state of West Bengal in India. He was born on 1 November 1957 in Rukminipur village near Egra in what is now Purba Medinipur district. His first short story was published in 1990 in Desh patrika. He was an author of 74 books.\nA book named \"Shwetpadma\"(collection of few short stories) is also available in the market.\n",
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"name": "Atin Bandyopadhyay",
"bio": "\nAtin Bandyopadhyay or Atin Banerjee (1934–2019) was an Indian writer of Bengali literature.\nHe was born in 1934 in a Rarhi Kulin Brahmin family from Sammandi, Bikrampur, Dhaka. He spent his childhood in a joint family set-up in the then East Bengal of undivided India and studied in Sonar Gaon Panam School. Following the Partition, he migrated to India. He earned his undergraduate degree in commerce in 1956 and subsequently earned a teacher's training degree, all from the University of Calcutta. He took various jobs, including; as a sailor, truck-cleaner and primary school teacher. Also he became headmaster of a senior basic school. He became the head master of Satui Rajendra Narayan High School which is situated near the Chowrigacha Railway Station in the Murshidabad district. Bandyopadhyay settled permanently in Kolkata in 1986. Here also he took on various jobs like factory manager, publication advisor and lastly journalist.\nBandyopadhyay's first story was published in the magazine Abasar of Berhampore. He later penned many works, but, his masterpiece is considered to be a four-part tetralogy on the Partition; Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje,\"Manusher Gharbari\" Aloukik Jalajan and Ishwarer Bagan. Another famous writer of Bengal, Syed Mustafa Siraj has compared Nilkantha Pakhir Khonje, with Greek tragedies and also found it tuned with the core spirit of Bengali literature like Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Pather Panchali.",
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