Athar Ali (Bengali: আতহার আলী; 1891 – 6 October 1976) was a Bangladeshi Islamic activist, author, teacher and politician.

[1][2] Ali was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Ghungadia Nawangaon, Beanibazar, Sylhet District, Bengal Presidency, British India.

[3] He then did Hadith studies at the Darul Uloom Deoband under Anwar Shah Kashmiri and Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, which he graduated from in 1338 AH (1919-1920 CE).

He began focusing more on propagating Islamic teachings to the Bengali Muslim masses through public lectures.

These include:[3] Ali died on 6 October in 1976 in the premises of a madrasa that he had founded, the Jamia Al Islamia , Chorpara in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, as a result of paralysis.