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Syed Ali Ashraf
Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and academic
Syed Ali Ashraf (30 January 1924 – 7 August 1998)[1] 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.[2]
Early life and family
Ashraf was born on 30 January 1924 in Dacca, Bengal Province.
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He belonged to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds originally from the village of Alokdia in Magura (formerly under Jessore District), Bengal Province. His father, Syed Ali Hamed, was a school inspector. His mother, Syeda Kamrunnegar Khatun, was the daughter of Syed Mukarram Ali, the Zamindar and Pir of Agla in Nawabg