Ibrahim Chatuli

Ibrahim Ali Chatuli ( Arabic: إبراهيم على (جتولي); ; 1894–1984) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, politician and social reformer. He was the Education Minister of Assam Legislative Council, and an elected Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind political party. His constituency joined the East Bengal Legislative Assembly after the Partition of India in 1947.

Early life Ibrahim Ali Chatuli was born in 1894, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Haratail in Barachatul Union, Kanaighat, Sylhet District. His father Munshi Abdul Karim was a scholar and poet. He studied at Jhingabari Alia Madrasa in Kanaighat, Ajiria Madrasa in Golapganj and Rampur Madrasa in India. He was a disciple of Hussain Ahmad Madani. After the Sylhet referendum which incorporated the district into Pakistan, he became a member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly.

He was the general secretary of the then Ulema-e-Hind in the province of Assam, and a leader of the Indian independence movement.

Death Chatuli died in 1984.