Famous People with Name Azraf

Dewan Mohammad Azraf            Origin/Culture/Country: Muslim

Dewan Mohammad Azraf: was a teacher, author, politician, journalist, philosopher and advocate of women's progress in East Bengal. In 1993, he was honored as a national professor in Bangladesh. He was also a supporter of the Bengali Language Movement. For his support of the movement he was dismissed form the post of the principal of Sunamganj College in 1954, the same year he was promoted to the post. His support was particularly influential when he edited the Nao Belal in 1948.After his dismissal from Sunamganj College, he taught at various colleges, eventually becoming the principal of Abujar Gifari College in Dhaka, where he served from 1967 to 1980. He taught part time at the departments of Philosophy and Islamic Studies of the University of Dhaka from 1973 to 1990. A supporter of Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, he joined the Muslim League in 1946 in protest of the treatment against Muslim immigrants in Assam, and was elected to the Assam Provincial Committee. He also served 10 months of prison sentence for violation of Section 144.