M. Harunur Rashid (28 December 1939 – 26 November 2024) was a Bangladeshi academic, educational administrator, editor, and translator.
[5] Rashid was born on 28 December 1939, to a Bengali Muslim family in Tinsukia district, Assam Province in British Raj.
[5] On the eve of the Second World War, his father Rahimuddin Ahmed, an employee of the Assam Bengal Railway, was transferred to Chittagong.
He got himself admitted to Brahmanbaria Government College, and passed his Intermediate in Arts examination (1957) under Dhaka University standing 5th in the merit list.
During the interim government of Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed he was appointed Director General of Bangla Academy[7] on 7 February 1991.
[10] He published the Bangla Academy English–Bengali Dictionary (ed Z R Siddiqui)[11] and devised such marketing policies as made it an instant best seller.
But his journalistic career was short-lived and he joined North South University[14] as an adjunct professor of English.
He learnt the principles of Sufism sitting at his feet[21] and practised the basics of Ma'refat without which, the Guru emphasized, Islam could not be seen in its wholeness, beauty and excellence.
[22] Nearly 12 years after his Shaykh's death he published a magnum opus Syed Rashid Ahmed Jaunpuri (RA) Smarak Grantha (2013).