Maniruzzaman Islamabadi

Munīruzzamān Khān Islāmābādī (; 1875-1950), also known by the epithet Biplobi Maulana , in Patiya Upazila (present Chandanaish Upazila) of Chittagong district. As he became older, he taught at various traditional madrassas.

Political activism Islamabadi's activism started in 1904 with the "Islam Mission Samity" which had undertaken a course of action to preach awareness among Bengali Muslims of their cultural heritage. Referring to the uneducated mullahs' reservation about learning geography on the baseless ground that the subject was created by the "Kafir English," Islamabadi wrote: quote|text=We wouldn’t be able to change our conditions, let alone make progress, until we would take the trouble to review out[sic] history and acquire essential knowledge about geography, science, industry, commerce and agriculture, et cetera.

He was one of the architects of the Bengal Pact of 1923. He left Congress politics in the 1930s and joined the Krishak Praja Party and was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1937 from this party. Islamabadi was disgusted with the Muslim League, which he viewed as elitist, lacking piety, and not "true Muslims". All the same, by the mid-1930s many Anjuman members, including Mohammad Akram Khan, abandoned Anjuman for the Muslim League. Political scientist Ranabir Samaddar described Islamabadi as "a lonely voice marked by loss, disappointment, and despair" thereafter.

Death and legacy He was a critic of the Pakistan movement and lived his life at Kolkata after the partition of India, where he died.

Islamabadi was a preacher who wanted to give Bengali Muslims a new identity by invoking universal morality to purify the modern.