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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Bangladeshi academic (1932–2020)}}<br />
{{infobox person<br />
|name=Sufia Ahmed<br />
|native_name=সুফিয়া আহমেদ<br />
|image = File:Sufia Ahmed.jpeg<br />
|native_name_lang=bn<br />
|birth_date={{birth date|1932|11|20|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Faridpur District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date={{death date and age|2020|4|9|1932|11|20|df=y}}<br />
|death_place=[[Dhaka]], Bangladesh<br />
|occupation=Academic<br />
|alma_mater={{ubl|[[Brojomohun College]]|[[University of Dhaka]]}}<br />
|nationality=Bangladeshi<br />
|education=Ph.D.<br />
|spouse={{marriage|[[Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed]]|1955|2003|end=d.}}<br />
|awards=[[Ekushey Padak]]<br />
|father=[[Muhammad Ibrahim (justice)|Muhammad Ibrahim]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Sufia Ahmed''' ({{nee|Ibrahim}}; 20 November 1932 – 9 April 2020)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://bengaloralhistory.tufts.edu/oralhistories.html|title=Thirty Oral History interviews|publisher=Bengali Cultural Heritage|access-date=June 13, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/news/national-professor-sufia-ahmed-no-more-1891402|title=National Professor Sufia Ahmed no more|date=April 9, 2020|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=April 11, 2022}}</ref> was a Bangladeshi academician. She was selected as the first female [[National Professor]] of Bangladesh in January 1995. She was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2002 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<ref name=biplobi>{{cite web|url=http://www.biplobiderkotha.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84:2010-02-07-08-59-12&catid=52:2011-02-20-10-18-09&Itemid=68 |script-title=bn:জাতীয় অধ্যাপক সুফিয়া আহমেদঃ অন্যতম ভাষা সৈনিক |date=February 7, 2010 |access-date=June 13, 2016 |newspaper=Biplobider Kotha |author=Sheikh Rafiq |language=bn |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222020052/http://www.biplobiderkotha.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84:2010-02-07-08-59-12&catid=52:2011-02-20-10-18-09&Itemid=68 |archive-date=February 22, 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Ahmed was born in the [[Faridpur District]] to [[Muhammad Ibrahim (justice)|M Ibrahim]], a justice and former [[Chancellor (education)#Vice-chancellor|vice-chancellor]] of the [[University of Dhaka]] and Lutfunnessa Ibrahim.<ref name=biplobi/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-45244|date=July 12, 2008|access-date=June 13, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star|author=Mustafa Kamal|title=Ishtiaq: An extraordinary legal mind}}</ref> She was a student of [[Brojomohun College]] in Barisal. In 1950, she got admitted to the [[University of Dhaka]] (DU). She was one of the female forerunners to break section 144 and deny the curfew in DU Campus on February 21, 1952.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2010/02/04/special_feature.htm|title=His-story vs Her-story|date=February 26, 2010|access-date=June 13, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star|author=Audity Falguni}}</ref> She earned her Ph.D. degree in 1960 in [[London]].<ref name=biplobi/><br />
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Ahmed joined as a faculty member at the Department of Islamic History and Culture of the University of Dhaka in 1961.<ref name=biplobi/> She was a visiting professor of [[Boğaziçi University|Bosphorus University]] in [[Istanbul]] and Alverno College in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]].<ref name=biplobi/><br />
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Ahmed served as a member of board of the directors of [[Bangladesh Bank]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/author/dr-sufia-ahmed|title=DR SUFIA AHMED|access-date=June 13, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> She was the president of Bangladesh Itihas Parishad.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-41071|title=Preserve real history for new generation|date= June 14, 2008|access-date=June 13, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Ahmed married Barrister [[Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed]] in June 1955. Together they had a son, Syed Refaat Ahmed, a judge of the [[Bangladesh Supreme Court]] and a daughter, Raina Ahmed, a physician.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2003/07/21/d30721020526.htm|title=In memorium : Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed|date=July 21, 2003|access-date=June 13, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref><br />
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On July 18, 2004, Sufia Ahmed established a trust fund titled ''"Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Memorial Foundation"'' at the [[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news | title=Barrister Ishtiaqmemorial foundation established | url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/07/22/d40722100691.htm | newspaper=The Daily Star | date=22 July 2004 | access-date=2 August 2022}}</ref><br />
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Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Tasneem Raina Fateh, the two worthy children of Sufia Ahmed, established a trust fund titled ''"National Professor Dr. Sufia Ahmed Memorial Foundation"'' on November 20, 2020 at the [[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/trustfunds.html#Sufia_Ahmed|title=National Professor Dr. Sufia Ahmed Memorial Foundation|website=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh|access-date=March 31, 2021}}</ref><br />
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==Awards==<br />
* Sufia Kamal Award (2015)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/city/eight-women-get-sufia-kamal-award-100525|title=Eight women get Sufia Kamal Award|date=June 21, 2015|access-date=June 13, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> <br />
* [[Ekushey Padak]] (2002)<br />
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