Abul Hasan Jashori

Abul Hasan Jashori (Bengali: আবুল হাসান যশোরী; 1918 – 8 July 1993)[note 1] was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician, author, teacher and freedom fighter.

[2] Abul Hasan was born in 1918, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Bhabanipur in Harinakunda, Jhenaidah, then located under the Jessore District of the Bengal Province.

In 1959, philanthropist Chowdhury Altaf Husayn donated some land for the establishment of a madrasa in Jessore with the assistance of Mawla Faruq, son of Habibullah Qurayshi.

The madrasa was named Jamia Ezazia Darul Uloom Jessore after his teacher Izaz Ali Amrohi.

Jashori also provided refuge to Bengali freedom fighters and Hindu civilians at his madrasa in Jessore.

Gawhardanga Madrasa in Tungipara where Jashori served as Shaykh al-Hadith .