Ayub Ali

Abū al-Khayr Muḥammad Ayyūb ʿAlī al-Māturīdī (; 1919–1995), or simply Ayub Ali , was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, author and educationist. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 1976 by the Government of Bangladesh.

Early life and education Ali was born in 1919, He then enrolled at the University of Dhaka where he earned his BA Honors and MA degrees in Islamic Studies in 1943 and 1944 respectively. Ali received the Raja Kalinarayan Scholarship (one of the most prestigious scholarships at the university). He obtained a second MA degree in Persian from the same university in 1950. He then studied at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt where he received his Alimiyyah Diploma in 1953 and Ph.D. in 1955. and then at Government Madrasah-e-Alia, Dhaka from 1973 to 1979. He has written several books in English, Bengali and Arabic. In 1976, he was awarded the Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh for his literary contributions.