Mawlana Abdur Rahim (Bengali: মাওলানা আব্দুর রহিম; 2 March 1918 – 1 October 1987) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, South Asian politician and the first promoter of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh.
Mohammad Abdur Rahim was born in the village of Shialkathi into a prominent family of Pirojpur District in Bangladesh.
[1] Abdur Rahim used to receive the magazine Tarjamanul Qur'an, edited by Abul A'la Maududi, when he was a student at the Aliya Madrasa.
Deeply influenced by this magazine and other writings of Syed Abul A'la Maududi, Abdur Rahim participated in the All-Indian conference of Jamaat-e-Islami held in Allahabad in 1946, at which he became acquainted with many of the leaders of the Jamaat.
During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, he refused to join the East Pakistan Central Peace Committee and asked Maulana Mawdudi not to support the Pakistani military regime.