Qazi Mu'tasim Billah

Muḥaddith al-ʿAẓīm Qazi Mu'tasim Billah
কাজী মুতাসিম বিল্লাহ
Personal
Born	Qazi Mu'tasim Billah Bahar 15 June 1933 Kaliganj, Jessore District, Bengal Presidency
Died	15 July 2013(2013-07-15) (aged 80) Dhaka, Bangladesh
Resting place	Shahjahanpur Graveyard, Dhaka
Religion	Islam
Parent	Qazi Sakhawat Husayn (father)
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Movement	Deobandi
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Deoband
Tariqa	Chishti (Sabiri-Imdadi) Naqshbandi Qadri Suhrawardy
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)	Muʿtaṣim Billāh Bahār معتصم بالله بهار
Patronymic (Nasab)	ibn Sakhāwat Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Wadūd ibn Rawshan ʿAlī بن سخاوة حسين بن عبد الودود بن روشن علي
Epithet (Laqab)	Muḥaddith al-ʿAẓīm محدث العظيم
Toponymic (Nisba)	al-Qāḍī القاضي al-Jasarī الجسري al-Bangālī البنغالي
Muslim leader
Teacher	Hussain Ahmed Madani Ibrahim Balyawi Izaz Ali Amrohi Muhammad Tayyib Qasmi
Disciple of	Hussain Ahmed Madani Tajammul Ali
Students Mahmudul Hasan Muhammad Wakkas Farid Uddin Masood Abdul Jabbar Jahanabadi Azhar Ali Anwar Shah Ataur Rahman Khan Abul Fattah Yahya Muhammad Nuruddin Khalilur Rahman Barnavi Ishaq Faridi Abdullah Haripuri Abdur Rahman Hafezji Abu Saber Abdullah Abul Bashar Saiful Islam
Influenced by Abdullah Darkhawasti
Principal of Jamia Shar'iyya Malibagh
In office 1969–2013
Succeeded by	Ashraf Ali
Principal of Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Madania
In office 1969–1977
Succeeded by	Tajammul Ali
Personal details
Political party	Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam

Islam in Bangladesh
History Muslim conquest Islamic rule Bengal Sultanate Bengal Subah Anjuman-i-Ulama-i-Bangala
Culture Architecture Bangladeshi Bengali Indo-Islamic Indo-Saracenic Mughal Literature Arabic Bengali Dobhashi Jangnama Kissa Marsiya Puthi Persian Urdu Music Ghazal Hamd Nashid Naat Qawwali Zari Zikir
Major figures Bakhtiyar Khalji Shah Jalal Khan Jahan Ali Shah Makhdum Titumir Shariatullah Karamat Ali Jaunpuri Sher-e-Bangla Siraji Nazrul Bhashani
Communities Bengali Muslims Deshi Dhakaiyas Kan Mahifarash Mahimal Nashya Shaikh Shershabadia Sylhetis Rohingyas Bihari Muslims Pangals
Ideology/schools of thought Ahl-i Hadith Barelvi/Rezvi Deobandi/Qawmi Fultali Maizbhandari Shia
Educational organizations Alia Madrasah Qawmi madrasa Islamic University, Bangladesh International Islamic University Chittagong
Political parties Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish Bangladesh Khilafat Andolan Islami Andolan Islami Front Islami Oikya Jote Jamaat-e-Islami Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Khelafat Majlish Muslim League Nizam-e-Islam Party Tariqat Federation
Influential bodies Anjuman Mufidul Islam Hefazat-e-Islam Islamic Foundation Bangladesh Tablighi Jamaat Tamaddun Majlish
Other topics Bishwa Ijtema Mosques in Bangladesh (Baitul Mukarram) Muslim nationalism in South Asia Muslim chronicles for Bangladeshi history Sufism in Bangladesh
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Qazi Mu'tasim Billah Bahar (Bengali: কাজী মুতাসিম বিল্লাহ বাহার; 15 June 1933 – 15 July 2013) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, teacher, author and politician. He was the principal of Jamia Shar'iyya Malibagh for over four decades, a former professor at the University of Dhaka and the founding principal of Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Madania in Jatrabari, Dhaka. He has written many books and articles in the Bengali language and pioneered the introduction of a Bengali-medium among the Qawmi madrasas of Bangladesh.^[1]