Muhammad Shahidullah
Muhammad Shahidullah | |
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মুহম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহ | |
Shahidullah in a literary conference in Curzon Hall, Dhaka (April 1954) | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 10 July 1885 |
| Died | 13 July 1969 (aged 84) Dacca, East Pakistan, Pakistan |
| Spouse | Marguba Khatun |
| Children | 9, including Muhammad Takiullah and Murtaja Baseer |
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| Honours | Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1967) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Creed | Maturidi |
| Muslim leader | |
| Disciple of | Mohammad Abu Bakr Siddique |
Muhammad Shahidullah (Bengali: মুহম্মদ শহীদুল্লাহ; 10 July 1885 – 13 July 1969) was a Bengali linguist, philologist, educationist, and writer. He played vital role in Language movement of 1952 he was the first to establish logic about Why Bengali should be the state language of Pakistan over Urdu.
In 2004, he was ranked number 16 in the BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time. He is considered as one of the best scholar of linguistics that South Asia ever produced.There is a residential hall in Dhaka University named after him.