Awa Khaled Rashid Uddin Ahmad (Bengali: আবা খালেদ রশীদ উদ্দিন আহমদ, Urdu: ابا خالد رشید الدین احمد; 1884–1959) was a prominent Islamic scholar, politician, social reformer, and spiritual leader; he was also known as Pir Badshah Miah.
[1] Badshah Miah was born in 1884 in the village of Bahadurpur, under Shibchar Thana, in the Madaripur Mahakuma of the then Bengal Presidency, British India, to Khan Bahadur Syed Uddin.
[2] In 1887, Badshah Miah began learning the Arabic language from his father and studied Qaida Baghdadi under Qari Syed Ahmad at his home.
In 1907, at a conference held in Munshiganj Thana's Rekabi Bazaar in Dacca District, to strengthen the Muslim League, Salimullah presided over the event, while Badshah Miah was the chief speaker.
[2] On 15 August 1907, Badshah Miah married Saleha Begum, daughter of Khwaja Rasul Baksh of the Dhaka Nawab family.