Khondokar Abdullah Zahangir
Quick Facts
Biography
Khondakar A. N. M. Abdullah Jahangir (Bengali: খোন্দকার আ. ন. ম. আব্দুল্লাহ জাহাঙ্গীর; 1958–2016) was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar. He was a TV speaker, professor of Islamic University Bangladesh, researcher and writer. He discussed contemporary issues of Islam on various books, newspapers and TV programms including Peace TV Bangla, Islamic TV and other Bengali language-based national TV channels.
Death
Abdullah Jahangir died in a road accident on the spot on May 11, 2016 on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Magura in the collision of his microbus and covered-van.Some local Islamic scholars claimed that it was a planned murder because he raised his voice against the christian missionaries. At his death, many persons and bodies including Jamaat-e-Islam's contemporary Ameer Maqbool Ahmad expressed their condolences . On 18 May 2016, a special discussion meeting was held in his memorial at his own workplace, Islamic University. On 4 June 2016, in a discussion arranged in the memory of Abdullah Jahangir, the speakers of the Bangladesh National Press Council, speakers called him a "devout scholar" and said, "Though he is a wise man of great height, we have never seen him telling any word or doing any work that can come to be arrogant and difficult. He could present religious rulings simply, and he was a man of pure heart".