Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Ulama Dal

Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Ulama Dal (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী ওলামা দল, lit.

'Bangladesh Nationalist Islamic Clergy Party')[1] is the Islamic scholar (Ulama) wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

[2] On 30 September 1979, President Ziaur Rahman founded the Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Ulama Dal with Muslim scholars (Ulama).

[2] Later on, Maulana SM Ruhul Amin was made Ulama Dal's president and Moazzem Hossain as the general secretary when the first conference of the group occurred.

[3][4] 171-member committee was formed on 5 April 2019 and then a new partial standing committee was formed on 26 April 2024 with the approval of Bangladesh Nationalist Party,[5] and another central committee was announced in July 2024, The committee had 137 members including Maulanas and religious scholars.

Firoze Noon and President Ziaur Rahman in 1979