He was ex-chairman of Waqf board of Tamil Nadu.

Syed Abdul Rahman was born in Madurai in 1937 and died on 2 June 2017.

He was a professor of Tamil for 29 years at Islamiah College, Vaniyambadi.

He won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1999 under Tamil language category for his Poetry Aalaapanai.

[2][3] In 2009, he was made the chairman of the Waqf board of Tamil Nadu.