Syed Ali Ahsraf

Syed Ali Ashraf (1925-7 August 1998) was a Bangladeshi-born Islamic scholar and academic. He was the Professor of English and Head of the Department of English, Karachi University, and later became Director-General, World Centre for Islamic Education at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1980. He was also the founder and Director-General of Islamic Academy, Cambridge. He was also the founder Vice-Chancellor of Darul Ihsan University from its founding to before his death in 1998 in Bangladesh.

Syed Ali Ashraf was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He obtained his Master's degree in English from the University of Dhaka and his Honours and PhD in English Literature from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

He started out teaching at a university in what is now Bangladesh. He went on to hold the following positions:

He was a distinguished author and editor, and has written as well as edited several books and many articles. Some of them include:

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