Syed Mujtaba Ali
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| Native name | সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী |
| Born |
13 September 1904 Karimganj, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 11 February 1974 (aged 69) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Education | PhD (comparative religious studies) |
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| Occupation | Writer, journalist, travel enthusiast, academician, linguist |
| Spouse(s) | Rabeya Khatun |
| Parent(s) | Syed Sikandar Ali (father) |
| Relatives | Syed Murtaza Ali (brother) |
Syed Mujtaba Ali (13 September 1904 – 11 February 1974) was a Bengali author, journalist, travel enthusiast, academician, scholar and linguist. He lived in Bangladesh, India, Germany, Afghanistan and Egypt.
Ali was born in Karimganj in Sylhet district of Bengal Presidency (now in Assam). His father Syed Sikander Ali was a Sub-Registrar. Mujtaba was the youngest of the three brothers. One of his brothers were Syed Murtaza Ali. Mujtaba Ali passed the matriculation exam from Sylhet Government Pilot High School and intermediate exam from Sylhet MC College. He went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926. He was among the first graduates of the university. He studied for a brief period in Aligarh Muslim University. Later, he moved to Kabul to work in the education department (1927–1929) as a professor. From 1929 to 1932 he went to Germany with Wilhelm Humboldt scholarship and studied at the universities in Berlin and later in Bonn. He earned his PhD from University of Bonn with a dissertation on comparative religious studies on Khojas in 1932.
Ali then studied at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo during 1934–1935. He taught at colleges in Baroda (1936–1944) and Bogra (1949). After a brief stint at Calcutta University in 1950, he became Secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and editor of its Arabic journal Thaqafatul Hind. From 1952 to 1956 he worked for All India Radio at New Delhi, Cuttack and Patna. He then joined the faculty of Visva-Bharati University (1956–1964) as professor of German language and later of Islamic Culture.
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