Shamez Uddin Ahmed

Shamez Uddin Ahmed شمݥالدين أحمد সামেজ উদদীন আহমেদ
The Mullah photographed during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
Born	Muhammad Shamez Uddin Ahmad Bengal Province, British Empire
Residence	East Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistan
Alma mater	Naogaon K.D. School
Known for	Hereditary Qadi

Mullah Mu'hammad Shamez-ud'din Ahmed (Bengali: মোললা সামেজ উদ্দিন আহমেদ, Arabic, Urdu:شمݥالدين أحمد in British India, 1913 – 1968 in East Pakistan) was the hereditary Qadi of Natore, seated at Singra Upazila in the erstwhile Indian Empire (and then East Pakistan, and finally present day Bangladesh).

Born in the British Empire before the First World War, he was the son of Mullah Muhammad Jasim ud'din Ahmed, who was a relative of Muhammad Faiz-ud'din Ahmed, the father of Muhammad Zunaid Ahmed. His paternal line was descended from Mullah Shah Badakhshi and were minor aristocrats (Mullahbare Qadi family); his father, a landowner in Shercole, maintained residences in the Bombay Presidency (near the present day Indian city of Mumbai) and in Darjeeling (then part of Nepal).

He attended Naogaon K.D. Government High School from where he matriculated in the mid 1930s. He was an only son, and his father died in his youth at 1923, and his mother, Khadeja Khanem was regent during his minority.

The title Mullah (Arabic: ملا‎‎) used by the family was used to show respect to educated Muslim leaders of the clergy. The rulers of Muslim India used the institution of the Qadi (Arabic: قاضي‎‎), who was given the responsibility for total administrative, judicial and fiscal control over a territory or a town. He would maintain all the civil records as well.