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Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib
محمدأسد الله الغالب
ড. মুহাম্মাদ আসাদুল্লাহ আল-গালিব
Born (1948-01-15) 15 January 1948 (age 69)
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Nationality Bangladeshi
Ethnicity Bengali
Era Modern
Region South Asia
Occupation Professor of the department of Arabic at University of Rajshahi (1980–2016)
Religion Islam
Denomination Ahle Hadith/Salafi
Movement Ahle Hadith
Notable work(s) Tafsirul Quran; Seeratur Rasul (SM); Ahlehadeeth Movement: Origin and the Development, with special reference to South Asian region (Ph.D Thesis); Salatur Rasul (SM) (Bangla and English); Nobider Kahini (Series-1,2)
Alma mater Kakdanga Senior Madrasah (Satkhira, Bangladesh)
Aramnagar Alia Madrasa (Jamalpur, Bangladesh)
Kalaroa Govt. College (Satkhira, Bangladesh)
University of Dhaka
University of Rajshahi
Website ahlehadeethbd.org

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (Arabic: د.محمد اسد الله الغالب; Bengali: ড. মুহাম্মাদ আসাদুল্লাহ আল-গালিব; born 15 January 1948) is a Bangladeshi reformist Islamic scholar and former professor of Arabic at the University of Rajshahi. He is the leader of a puritan Islamic movement Ahlehadeeth Andalon Bangladesh (AHAB). He is also the founder of a popular Islamic research journal of Bangladesh, Monthly At-tahreek.

On 23 February 2005, Bangladesh government arrested him following allegations of leading the Islamic militants. He was further alleged to have received funding from the Society of the Revival of Islamic Heritage. However, he denied any sort of involvement with Islamic militancy and got freed from jail on 28 August 2008. Finally, he received acquittal from all the charges.

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib was born in 1948 in the village Bularati, located in Satkhira District, Bangladesh. His mother is Basirun (born 1984) and his father Ahmad Ali (1883-1976) was an Islamic scholar and leader of the Ahlehadeeth.

He passed the Dakhil, Alim and Fazil public examinations from Kakdanga Senior Madrasha, Satkhira, Bangladesh. In 1969 he passed the Kamil (Muhaddith) Examination from Aramnagar Alia Madrasa, Jamalpur, Bangladesh. He passed all examinations in the First Division. He secured the 16th place in Alim and 5th place in Kamil examination of the then Madrasha Education Board of the East Pakistan.

He got his I.A. from Kalaroa, Govt. College, Satkhira, Bangladesh; B.A. from Majid Memorial City College, Khulna, Bangladesh and in 1976 M.A. in Arabic from the department of Arabic at the University of Dhaka, securing First Class First position. Lastly, he got Ph.D. Degree from the University of Rajshahi on 20 August 1992 by submitting a dissertation on 'Ahl-i-Hadeeth Movement: Origin and the Development; with special reference to South Asian region.'


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