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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Habibur Rahman<br />
|native_name = মুহাম্মদ হাবিবুর রহমান<br />
|native_name_lang = bn<br />
|image=Habibur Rahman.jpg<br />
|caption=Rahman in 2011<br />
|office = [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]]<br><small>Acting</small><br />
|president = [[Abdur Rahman Biswas]]<br />
|term_start = 31 March 1996<br />
|term_end = 23 June 1996<br />
|predecessor = [[Khaleda Zia]]<br />
|successor = [[Sheikh Hasina|Hasina Wazed]]<br />
| office2 = [[Chief Justice of Bangladesh]]<br />
| term_start2 = 1 February 1995<br />
| term_end2 = 30 April 1995<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Shahabuddin Ahmed]]<br />
| successor2 = [[A. T. M. Afzal]]<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|12|3|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Murshidabad]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2014|1|11|1928|12|3}}<br />
|death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh<br />
|party = [[Independent (politician)|Independent]]<br />
|alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]]<br/>[[University of Oxford]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Muhammad Habibur Rahman''' (3 December 1928 – 11 January 2014) was a Chief Justice of [[Bangladesh Supreme Court]] in 1995.<ref name=bp>{{cite book |last=Khan |first=Muazzam Hussain |year=2012 |chapter=Rahman, Justice Muhammad Habibur |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Rahman,_Justice_Muhammad_Habibur |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> He was the [[Chief Adviser of Bangladesh|Chief Adviser]] of the 1996 [[caretaker government]] which oversaw the [[Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh]].<ref name=bp/> He was a faculty member at the Department of Law, [[University of Rajshahi]] and [[University of Dhaka]]. Besides, being a [[Bengali language movement|language activist]], advocate of the Bengali language, he wrote extensively and published eight books on the subject.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kaliokalam.com/%e0%a6%ae%e0%a7%81%e0%a6%b9%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%ae%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%ae%e0%a6%a6-%e0%a6%b9%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%ac%e0%a7%81%e0%a6%b0-%e0%a6%b0%e0%a6%b9%e0%a6%ae%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%a8/|script-title=bn:মুহাম্মদ হাবিবুর রহমান|last=Anisuzzaman|author-link=Anisuzzaman|date=2014-03-24|website=কালি ও কলম|language=bn |access-date=2019-04-27}}</ref> He played a significant role to implement [[Bengali language|Bengali]] in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://opinion.bdnews24.com/bangla/archives/14468|script-title=bn:বিচারপতি হাবিবুর রহমান: মহাপ্রয়াণের পর|last=Khan|first=Salimullah|author-link=Salimullah Khan|date=2014-01-12|work=[[Bdnews24.com]] |language=bn |access-date=2019-04-27}}</ref> He wrote ''Jathashabdo'' (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/law-our-rights/news/remembering-justice-muhammad-habibur-rahman-1687498|title=Remembering Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman|date=2019-01-15 |work=The Daily Star |language=en|access-date=2019-04-27}}</ref><br />
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Rahman was awarded [[Bangla Academy Literary Award]] in 1984 and [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2007 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]]. He served as a Fellow of [[Bangla Academy]], [[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]] and [[Worcester College, Oxford]].<ref name=bp/><br />
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==Education==<br />
Rahman was educated in [[Kolkata]], [[Dhaka]], [[Oxford]] and [[London]]. He attended the [[University of Dhaka]]<ref name=bp/> and was an activist in the [[Bengali Language Movement]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Habibur Rahman passes away|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/01/11/habibur-rahman-passes-away|date=11 January 2014|accessdate=8 July 2017|newspaper=bdnews24.com}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Rahman began his career as a lecturer in history of [[Dhaka University]] in 1952. Later he joined [[Department of Law, University of Rajshahi]] where he subsequently held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Law (1961) and of Reader in History (1962–64). He changed his profession in 1964 when he took to law and joined the [[Dhaka High Court]] Bar. In his legal career, he held the offices of Assistant Advocate General (1969), Vice President of High Court Bar Association (1972) and member of Bangladesh bar council(1972).<ref name="bp" /><br />
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==Literature==<br />
Rahman was an author of seventy books in Bengali on law, language, literature, poetry and religion and five books in English, including two books of verse. Law of Requisition (1966), Rabindra Prabandhey Sanjna O Parthakya Bichar (1968), Jatha-sabda (1974), Matri-bhashar Sapakshey Rabindranath (1983), Qur'an-sutra (1984), Bachan O Prabachan (1985), Gangariddhi thekey Bangladesh (1985), Rabindra Rachanar Rabindra-byaksha (1986), Rabindra-kabyey Art, Sangeet O Sahitya (1986), Koran-shorif Sorol Banganubad, On Rights and Remedies, Amara ki Jabo-na Tader Kachhey Jara Shudhu Banglai Katha Baley (1996).<br />
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==Legacy==<br />
Rahman made notable contributions to the [[Bengali language movement|Language Movement]], 21 February 1952 of the then [[East Pakistan]]. He was the first person to break the [[Section 144]] lead the first batch of a procession and was arrested soon after that. On that day, the police and parliamentary forces resorted to widespread tear gas shelling, clubbing and finally shooting. Consequently, several students were killed, hundreds were injured and thousands were arrested.<br />
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==Death==<br />
On 11 January 2014, at the age of 85, Rahman died at United Hospital, Gulshan, [[Dhaka]].<ref name=bp/><br />
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