Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy
| Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy | |
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| Born | 1832 Chitwa, Midnapore District, Bengal Presidency, Company Raj |
| Died | 9 February 1885 Dhaka, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Citizenship |
 British India
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| Alma mater | Calcutta Madrasa |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Organization |
Mohammedan Literary Society, Central National Mohammedan Association, Bengal Social Science Association |
| Notable work |
Lubbul Arab Dastar-e-Farsi Amuz Miftahul Adab Mohammedan Education in Bengal and others |
| Children |
Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy (Son), Hassan Suhrawardy (Son), Khujastha Akhtar Banu (Daughter) |
| Relatives | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (Grandson) |
| Awards | Bahrul Ulm |
Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy (1832–9 February 1885) was an educationist and writer, was born in the famous Suhrawardy family of Chitwa in Midnapore, West Bengal.
Ubaidullah was directly descended from the Sufi mystic and saint Shaikh Shahabuddin Suhrawardy, who lived in Baghdad in the 12th Century. Shaikh Shahabuddin(R.A), was the author of what came to be regarded as the standard work on mysticism Awriful-Maariffi. He was a disciple and successor of Shaikh Abdul-Qadir Gilani(R.A), and the mosques and shrines over their tombs still survive in Baghdad and are places of pilgrimage to this day.
He was also a descendant of Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi(R.A).
Ubaidullah's father was Shah Aminuddin Suhrawardy (the last Pir (Sufism) in the Suhrawardy family). He had two brothers both of whom were lawyers and subordinate judges (the highest rank available to Indians under British rule at the time). One of his brothers' was named Maulvi Mubarak Ali Suhrawardy alias Mohammad Ali.
One of Ubaidullah's son Sir Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy earned fame in academia while another son, Lt. Col. Dr. Hassan Suhrawardy, OBE became famous in politics. His daughter, Khujastha Akhtar Banu (c. 1874–1919) was a noted name in Urdu literature and scholar of Persian and mother of Hassan Shahid Suhrawardy and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.
Ubaidullah's other children included: Mr Mamun Suhrawardy, Mr Mahmud Suhrawardy (a politician who was a Member of the Council of State), Humayun Akhtar Banu Begum and another daughter. He had 8 children in total.
He learnt Arabic and Persian at home and then passed the Final Central Examinations (1857) from the Madrasa ʿAliya of Calcutta. He also learnt English on his own. He was first employed as an aide to Prince Jalaluddin, a grandson of Tipu Sultan of Mysore in Calcutta, and then was appointed as a scrivener to the translation department of the Legislative Council of the Viceroy of India.
In 1865 he joined Hooghly Mohsin College (then affiliated with the University of Calcutta) as a teacher of Anglo-Arabic. He was appointed the first superintendent of Dhaka Madrasah in 1874 and remained there till his death. A social reformer, he was a man of secular, rational and liberal bent. He was a friend of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
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