Muhammad Abdul Bari (academic)

Muhammad Abdul Bari (1930 – 4 June 2003) was a Bangladeshi academic, linguist and Islamic scholar.

[1] Abdul Bari was born in 1930, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Syedpur in Shibganj, Bogra District, Bengal Province.

His grandfather, Sayed Abdul Hadi, had founded the village of Nurul Huda in Dinajpur and was one of the pioneers of the Ahl-i Hadith movement in Bengal.

His father, Muhammad Abdullahil Baqi, was the vice-president of Muslim League, a member of Bengal Legislative Assembly, Pakistan General Assembly and East-Pakistan Legislative Council.

[1] He was head member of Islamic University establishing Planning Committee in January 1977.