Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish

Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish
3rd President of Awami League
In office
10 October 1957  25 January 1966
General SecretarySheikh Mujibur Rahman
Preceded byHuseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Succeeded bySheikh Mujibur Rahman
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh
In office
1971–1973
ConstituencyNE-25 (Pabna-II)
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
1955–1958
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
In office
10 August 1947  24 October 1954
Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
1937–1945
Personal details
Born
Khandakar Sayed Abdur Rashid

(1900-11-27)27 November 1900
Salanga, Bengal, British India
Died20 August 1986(1986-08-20) (aged 85)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Political partyAll-India Muslim League (1936–1947)
Muslim League (1947–1952)
Awami League (1952–1975)
Gano Azadi League (1976–1986)
Personal life
EducationDarul Uloom Deoband
Mazahir Uloom
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
LineageAli al-Sajjad
JurisprudenceHanafi
MovementDeobandi
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)ʿAbd al-Rashīd
عبد الرشيد
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn Abī Isḥāq
إبن أبي إسحاق
Epithet (Laqab)Tarkabāghīsh
تركباغيش
Toponymic (Nisba)Al-Abedi
العبيدي
as-Sayyid
السيد

Khandakar Abdur Rashid (Bengali: খন্দকার আব্দুর রশীদ), better known as Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (Bengali: আব্দুর রশীদ তর্কবাগীশ; 27 November 1900 – 20 August 1986) was a Bangladeshi politician and Islamic scholar. His career spans from the anti-colonial independence movement to the establishment of both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Tarkabagish was the second president of the All Pakistan Awami Muslim League, and served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and later the Parliament of Bangladesh. Despite being a member of the treasury bench, he opposed what he considered to be the repressive mentality of the Nurul Amin government towards the Bengali Language Movement.