UNB, Dhaka :
Syed Ashraf Ali, former Director General of Islamic Foundation Bangladesh and renowned scholar on Islam, died at a city hospital on Tuesday morning.
Syed Ashraf, admitted to Eden Multicare Centre a fortnight earlier with complications of the lungs, breathed his last at 6.05 am. He was in coma for two days prior to his death.
Son of late Syed Badrudduja, former Mayor
of Calcutta and Member of India’s Lok Sabha, and Rakia Badrudduja, Syed Ashraf Ali was born in 1939 and educated at St. Xaviers College, Calcutta, and Calcutta University.
He moved to the then East Pakistan in 1964 and joined Radio Pakistan. In the early phases of Bangladesh’s War of Liberation, he was instrumental in helping set up the Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Betar Kendra in Chittagong, where he was posted in March 1971.
Ali authored a number of books and treatises on Islam, and hosted regular programmes on Islam on television, particularly Bangladesh Television and ATN Bangla. His articles in newspapers on a wide range of subjects, including religion and music, were remarkable for their deep insight and liberality.
In the course of his career, he participated in a number of seminars and conferences at home and abroad.
He is survived by wife Sultana Ali, son Syed Mohammad Ali Zain, his daughter-in-law, siblings and innumerable well-wishers and fans.
Syed Ashraf Ali, former Director General of Islamic Foundation Bangladesh and renowned scholar on Islam, died at a city hospital on Tuesday morning.
Syed Ashraf, admitted to Eden Multicare Centre a fortnight earlier with complications of the lungs, breathed his last at 6.05 am. He was in coma for two days prior to his death.
Son of late Syed Badrudduja, former Mayor
of Calcutta and Member of India’s Lok Sabha, and Rakia Badrudduja, Syed Ashraf Ali was born in 1939 and educated at St. Xaviers College, Calcutta, and Calcutta University.
He moved to the then East Pakistan in 1964 and joined Radio Pakistan. In the early phases of Bangladesh’s War of Liberation, he was instrumental in helping set up the Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Betar Kendra in Chittagong, where he was posted in March 1971.
Ali authored a number of books and treatises on Islam, and hosted regular programmes on Islam on television, particularly Bangladesh Television and ATN Bangla. His articles in newspapers on a wide range of subjects, including religion and music, were remarkable for their deep insight and liberality.
In the course of his career, he participated in a number of seminars and conferences at home and abroad.
He is survived by wife Sultana Ali, son Syed Mohammad Ali Zain, his daughter-in-law, siblings and innumerable well-wishers and fans.
