Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad Ayyūb ʿAlī al-Māturīdī (Arabic: أبو الخير محمد أيوب علي الماتريدي; 1919–1995), or simply Ayub Ali (Bengali: আইয়ূব আলী), was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, author and educationist.
[3] Ali was born in 1919,[4][5][note 1] to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Telikhali in Firozpur, Backergunge District, Bengal Presidency.
His father, Abdul Wahed, was a moulvi, and his mother, Abida Khatun, was a housewife.
[3] Ali studied at the Calcutta Alia Madrasa, receiving his alim certification in 1933, fazil in 1936 and kamil in 1938.
[4] He then enrolled at the University of Dhaka where he earned his BA Honors and MA degrees in Islamic Studies in 1943 and 1944 respectively.