He is considered to be one of the key authors of period of the Bengali Muslim reawakening; encouraging education and glorifying the Islamic heritage.

[1] He also contributed greatly to introducing the Khilafat Movement in Bengal,[2] and provided medical supplies to the Ottoman Empire during the Balkan Wars.

[3] Anal-Prabaha, his first poetry book, was banned by the government and he was subsequently imprisoned as the first South Asian poet to allegedly call for independence against the British Raj.

His ancestor, Syed Ali Azam, migrated from the city of Shiraz in Iran to Bengal and received honour in the Mughal court.

[1] Siraji was a royal by day and writer by profession, who later immersed himself in the politics of Bengal and reawakening Bengali Muslim society, which had fallen behind as a result of colonial rule.

The book was banned by the government and he was subsequently imprisoned in March 1910 as the first South Asian poet to allegedly for independence against the British Raj.

[5] He influenced the next generation of Bengali Muslim writers such as Muhammad Enamul Haq and Sahityaratna Mohammad Najibar Rahman.