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Maulvi family
The erstwhile family's residence
Current regionSylhet, British Raj
EtymologyMawlawi
FounderMaulvi Kalim Faruqi
MembersIdris Khan, Abdul Qadir, Jitu Miah, Sara Khatun, Bint Rasul Bakhsh
Estate(s)K B Yahia Waqf Estate
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The Maulvi family (

Maulvis based in Sylhet. They played important religious and political roles in the history of Sylhet, Bengal and the subcontinent
. Jitu Miah, the last jagirdar of the family, died in 1925 without leaving behind an heir. However the family estate managed by the local government, continued to be a prominent landmark in the town and a legacy of the family.

History

Maulvi Kalim Faruqi is generally considered to be the founder of the family. Faruqi was a student and successor (

Sylhet region this early on; either originating from there or inhabiting there.[2]

Faruqi's grandson was

alims; Abu Muhammad Abdul Qadir and Maulana Abul Husayn Abdur Rahman Ziya (d. 1893).[3]

Maulvi Abu Muhammad Abdul Qadir was a respected

Persian) and Khulāṣah al-Masāʾil (Urdu, 1865) were in Kanpur and last editions circulated in 1969 by the Karachi Education Press. In 1886, he published the Urdu book Makhzan al-Irfān min Ṣunʾ is-Subḥān in Agra.[5]

Khan Bahadur Maulvi Abu Nasr Muhammad Yahia, commonly known by his sobriquet Jitu Miah, was born in either 1848 or 1851 in the family home in Sheikghat, Sylhet. Yahia first started working as a sub-registrar under the British Raj. From 1897 to 1903, he was vice-chairman and honorary magistrate of the Sylhet Municipality (now Sylhet City Corporation).[1] As part of the 1924 New Year Honours, King George V awarded Yahia with the First Class Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in St James's Palace for his public services in British India.[6]

Yahia's first wife was his paternal first cousin, Sara Khatun. Sara died shortly after. Yahia later married the daughter of Khwaja Rasul Baksh of the

mutawalli was the administrator of the Sylhet Division
. He was said to have donated 60% of his wealth to social, religious and educational institutions and charities.

Estate

Abdul Qadir built the first family house in 1886 located in what is now the cow-

Khwaja Nazimuddin, Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Yusuf Ali Chowdhury, Hussain Ahmed Madani, Badshah Mian (descendant of Haji Shariatullah) and M. A. G. Osmani.[11] The Government also gave rights for the possession of guns in the estate.[12]

Legacy

Yahia became notable for his philanthropic works and the family estate became so famed during his time that it continues to be locally known today as Jitu Miyar Bari (Jitu Miah's house) and officially as Yahia Villa. A popular old poem about the Sylhet city mentions the house:

চাদঁনী ঘাটের সিড়িঁ, আলী আমজদের ঘড়ি, বঙ্কু বাবুর দাড়ি, আর জিতু মিয়ার বাড়ি
Channighater Shiri, Bonku Babu'r Dari, Jitu Miah'r Gari, Ar Ali Amzade'r Ghori.

This translates to "The steps of Channighat, the beard of Bonku Babu, the house of Jitu Miah, and the clock of Ali Amzad", all of which are local landmarks.[13][14]

the region by making it the headquarters of the Department of Archaeology's Sylhet Divisional Archaeological Museum.[15]

Eponyms

See also

  • Mazumdars of Sylhet

References

  1. ^ a b জিতু মিয়ার বাড়ী. DC Sylhet. 23 August 2011. Archived from the original on 23 August 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Mawlana Nur Muhammad Azmi. "2.2 বঙ্গে এলমে হাদীছ" [2.2 Knowledge of Hadith in Bengal]. হাদীছের তত্ত্ব ও ইতিহাস [Information and history of Hadith] (in Bengali). Emdadia Library.
  3. ^ Mawlana HM Ghulam Kibriya Raqib (11 December 2016). বাংলাদেশে ইসলাম প্রবেশের ইতিহাস [History of the entrance of Islam in Bangladesh]. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali).
  4. ^ "Arabic writers". East Pakistan District Gazetteers: Sylhet. East Pakistan Government Press. 1970. p. 325.
  5. ^ Maulana Abdullah bin Said Jalalabadi (May 2020). জীবন-গাঙের বাঁকে বাঁকে-(২). Al Kawsar (in Bengali).
  6. ^ "Supplement to the London Gazette" (PDF). The London Gazette: 6. 1 January 1924.
  7. ^ ঈদে ঘুরে আসুন সিলেটের জল-ঝরনা ও চায়ের সবুজ গালিচায়. BanglaNews24.com (in Bengali). 13 July 2019.
  8. ^ ঈদে ঘুরতে পারেন সিলেটের শতাধিক পর্যটন কেন্দ্রে. jagonews24.com (in Bengali). 13 July 2019.
  9. ^ সিলেটের উৎপত্তি নিয়ে নানান জনশ্রুতি. Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). 13 July 2019.
  10. ^ জিতু মিয়ার বাড়ী. Sylhet City Corporation (in Bengali).
  11. ^ সিলেট রেল স্টেশন, ক্বীন ব্রিজ, আলী আমজাদের ঘড়ি এবং জিতু মিয়ার বাড়ি. Sylhet District (in Bengali).
  12. ^ Choudhury, Achyut Charan (2000) [1916]. "মোসলমান বংশ বর্ণন: সদর - মৌলবী পরিবার". Srihatter Itibritta: Uttorangsho (in Bengali). Kolkata: Kotha. p. 123.
  13. ^ Siddiquee, Iqbal (27 August 2011). "Sylhet's 137-Year Old Icon". The Daily Star. Dhaka. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  14. ^ Dash, Sumankumar (28 May 2019). এক বছর থেমে আছে আলী আমজদের ঘড়ির কাঁটা [Ali Amzad's Clock not working for the last 1 year]. Prothom Alo. Dhaka. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  15. ^ "Sylhet's archaeological heritage about to find new home". The Daily Star. 27 December 2019.

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