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{{Infobox person
| name = Syed Mujtaba Ali
| native_name = সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Mujtaba_Ali.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1904|09|13}}<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Khan |first=Nurur Rahman |year=2012 |chapter=Ali, Syed Muztaba |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Ali,_Syed_Muztaba |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>
| birth_place = [[Karimganj]], [[Assam Province]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1974|02|11|1904|09|13}}<ref name=star>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/a-man-of-many-hues-10754|title=A man of many hues|publisher=The Daily Star|date=11 February 2014}}</ref>
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]
| nationality = [[India|Indian]] (1904–1947) [[Pakistani]] (1947–1949) [[Indian people|Indian]] (1949–1972) [[Bangladeshi]] (1972–1974)
| education = PhD (comparative religious studies)
| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Sylhet Government Pilot High School]] | [[Murari Chand College]] | [[Visva-Bharati University]] | [[Aligarh Muslim University]] | [[University of Bonn]]}}
| occupation = Writer, journalist, travel enthusiast, academician, linguist
| spouse = Rabeya Khatun
| parents = Khan Bahadur Syed Sikandar Ali (father) Amtul Mannan Khatun (mother)
| relatives= [[Syed Murtaza Ali]] (Brother) [[Syed Mohammad Ali]] (Nephew) [[Syed Muazzem Ali]] (Nephew) 
[[Shegufta Bakht Chaudhuri]] (Nephew)
}}
'''Syed Mujtaba Ali''' ({{lang-bn|সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী}}; 13 September 1904 – 11 February 1974) was a Bengali author, journalist, travel enthusiast, academic, scholar and linguist. He lived in [[India]], [[Bangladesh]], [[Germany]], [[Afghanistan]] and [[Egypt]].

==Early life and education==
Ali was born in [[Karimganj]] in the [[Sylhet region|District of Sylhet]] of [[Assam Province]]. His father, [[Khan Bahadur]] Syed Sikander Ali, was a sub-registrar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://moulvibazar.gov.bd/site/page/350ceefb-0757-11e7-a6c5-286ed488c766/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%8C%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%20%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF|title=Prakhyata Byaktitva|website=Moulvibazar Zila|accessdate=24 September 2018}}</ref><ref name=rebel>{{cite news |author=Abdulla Shibli |date=13 March 2015 |title=Syed Mujtaba Ali as a Rebel |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/literature/syed-mujtaba-ali-rebel-5464 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> He traced his paternal descent from Shah Ahmed Mutawakkil, a local holy man and a [[Syed]] of Taraf, though apparently unrelated to Taraf's ruling [[Taraf Kingdom#Syed rule|Syed dynasty]].<ref>{{citation|first=Nurur Rahman|last=Khan|editor=Sharif Uddin Ahmed|title=Syed Mujtaba Ali|journal=Sylhet: History and Heritage|pages=824–25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_BtAAAAMAAJ|date=1999|publisher=Bangladesh Itihas Samiti|location=[[Sylhet]]|isbn=978-984-31-0478-6}}</ref> Ali's mother, Amtul Mannan Khatun, was a Chowdhury of Bahadurpur, an Islamised branch of the [[Pal family]] of [[Panchakhanda]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Ali|first=Syed Murtaza|authorlink=Syed Murtaza Ali|title=Amadera kalera katha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ExFXAAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Baighara|page=27|language=bn}}</ref> Mujtaba was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom being the writer [[Syed Murtaza Ali]].<ref name=rebel/>

Mujtaba Ali passed the matriculation exam from [[Sylhet Government Pilot High School]] though was said to have not passed his intermediate exam from [[Murari Chand College|MC College]].{{cn|date=May 2020}} In 1919 when [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was visiting Sylhet, Mujtaba Ali met Tagore who had great influence on Mujtaba Ali's writings. Later, in 1921 Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet. In the same year 1921, he went to [[Visva-Bharati University]] in [[Santiniketan]] and graduated in 1926 with B.A. degree. He was among the first graduates of the Visva-Bharati. He studied for a brief period in [[Aligarh Muslim University]]. Later, he moved to [[Kabul]] to work in the education department (1927–1929) as a professor. From 1929 to 1932 he went to Germany with Wilhelm Humboldt scholarship and studied at the universities in [[Berlin]] and later in [[Bonn]]. He earned his PhD from the [[University of Bonn]] with a dissertation on comparative religious studies on [[Khojas]] in 1932.<ref name=star/>

==Career==
Ali then studied at the [[Al-Azhar]] University in [[Cairo]] during 1934–1935. He taught at colleges in [[Baroda]] (1936–1944) and [[Bogra]] (1949). He briefly lived in [[East Pakistan]] before he moving back to India in 1949. After a brief stint at [[Calcutta University]] in 1950, he became Secretary of the [[Indian Council for Cultural Relations]] and editor of its Arabic journal ''Thaqafatul Hind''.<ref name=star/> From 1952 to 1956 he worked for [[All India Radio]] at New Delhi, [[Cuttack]] and [[Patna]]. He then joined the faculty of Visva-Bharati University (1956–1964) as professor of German language and later of Islamic Culture. He lived in [[Calcutta]] till early 1972. Following the [[Liberation of Bangladesh]], he moved with his family to Dhaka and lived there till his death in 1974.

==Language activism==
After the [[Partition of India]] into India and [[Pakistan]] in 1947, Ali went from India to the then [[East Pakistan]]. He was one of the first to call for Bangla as East Pakistan's state language on 30 November 1947, at the Sylhet [[Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Samsad]].<ref name="The Daily Star">{{cite news|title=Syed Mujtaba Ali – a pioneer of our Language Movement|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=75281|accessdate=24 January 2013|date=11 February 2009}}</ref> He was a prominent activist and supporter of [[Bengali language|Bengali]] as the national language of East Pakistan.<ref name="The Daily Star"/> In 1948, being the principal of [[Azizul Huq College]], Bogra, he wrote an essay, 'The State Language of East Pakistan', which was printed in ''Chaturanga'' of [[Kolkata]]. During that time, the [[West Pakistan]] Rulers tried to impose [[Urdu]] as the only state language of East Pakistan while Bengali was spoken by most of the people. The government of Pakistan demanded an explanation. But Ali resigned and moved to India.

==Linguistic abilities and literary works==
The mother tongue of Ali was Bengali but he knew 14 languages – English, [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Arabic]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Urdu language|Urdu]], [[Hindi]], [[Sanskrit]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Pashtu]] and [[Greek language|Greek]]. Alongside Natya Guru Nurul Momen and Jajabar (Binay Mukhopadhyay), Ali was one of the trail-blazers of a unique category of Bengali writing. 'Ramya Rachana' in the Bengali language, an anecdotal story-telling – often based on real-life experiences – became immensely popular, mostly because of the attractive writing style of Ali. ''[[Deshe Bideshe]]'', the story of his journey to and experiences in Kabul during his brief stint as professor in a college there is one of Ali's best works. ''Panchatantra'' is a collection of thoughts and short stories (some already published in 'Desh' magazine) of his days in Europe, Cairo and Baroda.

==Bibliography==
# ''[[Deshe Bideshe]]'' (1949)
# ''Panchatantra'' (1952)
# ''Abishwasya'' (1955)
# ''Chacha Kahini'' (1955)
# ''Mayurkanthi'' (1957)
# ''Jale Dangay'' (1957)
# ''Dhupchhaya ''(1958)
# ''Shabnam'' (1960)
# ''Chaturanga'' (1960)
# ''Shreshtha Galpa'' (1962)
# ''Parash Pathar'' (1962)
# ''Bahubichitra'' (1962)
# ''Bhabaghure O Anyanya'' (1962)
# ''Shreshtha Ramya Rachana'' (1962)
# ''Tunimem'' (1964)
# ''Duhara'' (1966)
# ''Pachandashai'' (1967)
# ''Shahriyar'' (1969)
# ''Hitler'' (1970)
# ''Kato Na Ashrujal'' (1971)
# ''Musafir'' (1971)
# ''Prem''
# ''Dwandwa Madhur''
# ''Tulanahina''
# ''Raja Ujir''
# ''Chalak Hobar Pahela Kitab ''

==Death and legacy==
In 1949, he was awarded the Narsinghadas Prize and in 1961 he was awarded the [[Ananda Puraskar]]. In 1972, after the liberation of the country, Ali returned to Bangladesh. He died on 11 February 1974.<ref name="Embassy of Bangladesh">{{cite book|title=Bangladesh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHAwAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA10|year=1974|publisher=Embassy of Bangladesh.|page=4}}</ref> Extracts from his literary works are included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, higher secondary and graduation level [[Bengali Literature]] in both Bangladesh and India, particularly in the states of [[West Bengal]] and [[Tripura]]. He was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]], the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh in 2005 by the Government of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite news |title=14 to get Ekushey Padak |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/02/18/d50218011817.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=18 February 2005}}</ref>

==Awards==
*Narsinghadas Prize (1949)
*[[Ananda Puraskar]] (1961) awarded by Anandabazar Group
*[[Ekushey Padak]] (2005) by the Government of Bangladesh

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* ''Saiyad Mujtaba Ali Rachanabali'' (complete works), edited by Gajendrakumar Mitra, Sumathanath Ghosh, Sabitendranath Ray and Manish Chakrabarty, eleven volumes published by Mitra O Ghosh (Kolkata) 1974–1983.
* ''Saiyad Mujtaba Ali: Jibankatha'', by Nurur Rahman Khan, published by Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Dhaka) 1990.
* ''Mujtaba Sahityer Rupbaichitrya o Rachanashaili'', by Nurur Rahman Khan, published by Bangla Academy (Dhaka) 1990.
* ''Prasanga: Mujtaba Ali'', edited by Bijanbihari Purakayastha, published by Nabapatra Prakashan (Kalikata) 1998 (first published as ''Mujtaba Prasanga ''in Sylhet in 1977).
* ''Syed Mujtaba Ali: Proshongo Oproshongo'' by Golam Mostakim, who was close with Syed Mujtaba Ali from 1971 to 1974, till Syed Mujtaba Ali's death. The book illustrates Syed Mujtaba Ali as a person rather than a personality. Published by Student Ways, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1995.

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