Maulana Mohammad Akram Khan
| Mohammad Akram Khan | |
|---|---|
| Native name | মওলানা মুহাম্মদ আকরাম খাঁ |
| Born |
c. 1868 Hakimpur, 24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 18 August 1969 (aged 100–101) Dhaka, East Pakistan, Pakistan |
| Alma mater | Calcutta Madrasah (present Aliah University) |
Mohammad Akram Khan (c. 1868 – August 18, 1969) was a Bengali journalist, politician and Islamic scholar. He was the founder of Dhaka's first Bengali newspaper, The Azad.
Khan was born in Hakimpur, 24 Parganas district of Bengal Presidency, British India (in present-day West Bengal) in 1868. He did not have a British education but studied at Calcutta Madrasah (now Aliah University). He entered the journalism profession at a very young age before becoming involved in politics.
Early in his career, he worked at newspapers Ahl-i-Hadith and Mohammadi Akhbar. Between 1908 and 1921, he worked as the editor of the Mohammadi and the Al-Islam. He published the Zamana and the Sebak between 1920 and 1922. Sebak was banned and Akram Khan was arrested on the basis that his anti-government editorials supported the Non-cooperation Movement and the Swadeshi movement.
From October 1936, Akram Khan began publishing the newspaper The Azad, which generated support for the Muslim League in Bengal.
Before joining politics, while as a student of Calcutta Alia Madrasa, Khan formed a movement in favour of teaching all subjects in Bangladesh. Akram Khan was also one of the founding members of the Muslim League in 1906. He was involved in the Khilafat and Non-cooperation Movement from 1918 to 1924. He was elected secretary of the All India Khilafat Committee at the conference held at Ahsan Manzil in Dhaka in 1920, which was attended by other eminent Khilafat Movement leaders like Abul Kalam Azad, Maniruzzaman Islamabadi and Mujibur Rahman. Akram was responsible for collecting funds for the Ottoman caliphate. During 1920–1923, he organised public meetings in different parts of Bengal to propagate the cause of the Khilafat and the Non-cooperation Movement. As a believer in Hindu-Muslim amity, Akram Khan supported Chitta Ranjan Das's Swaraj Party in Kolkata in 1922, and also the Bengal pact in 1923. But due to the communal riots of 1926–1927 and other contemporary political developments, Akram Khan lost his faith in Indian nationalist politics and left both the Swaraj Party and Congress.
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