Shah Ahmad Hasan

Aḥmad Ḥasan ibn Waṣī ar-Raḥmān ibn Ḥamīd ʿAlī al-Jīrawī (Arabic: أحمد حسن بن وصي الرحمن بن حامد علي الجيروي; 1882–1967), popularly known as Shah Ahmad Hasan (Bengali: শাহ আহমদ হাসান), was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist.

He was an early student of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam in Hathazari.

Hasan established Al Jameatul Arabiatul Islamia Jiri, which was the second Qawmi madrasa of Bangladesh.

[1] Ahmad Hasan was born in 1882 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Jiri in western Patiya under the Chittagong District of the Bengal Presidency.

After his death, he then became a disciple of Qazi Muazzam Husayn of Mirsarai, a khalifah (spiritual successor) of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.