Shamsul Haque Faridpuri

Shams al-Ḥaqq ibn Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Chirāgh ʿAlī al-Farīdfūrī (Arabic: شمس الحق بن محمد عبد الله بن تشراغ علي الفريدفوري), or simply known as Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (Bengali: শামসুল হক ফরিদপুরী; 1896 – 21 January 1969) was an Islamic scholar, educationist, and social reformer.

[citation needed] He traces his paternal ancestry to an Arab soldier who was one of the members of Bakhtiyar Khalji's army during his conquest of Bengal.

His ancestors settled in Jessore where they propagated Islam to locals with his great-great grandfather, Mawlana Abdul Awwal al-Ghazi, relocating the family to Faridpur.

[8] His father, Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah ibn Chiragh Ali, was a munshi and participant of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and his mother, Amena Khatun, was a homemaker.

Under Thanwi's advice, Faridpuri enrolled at the Mazahir Uloom seminary in Saharanpur where he completed Islamic studies up to a bachelors level.