Titumir
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Syed Mir Nisar Ali (27 January 1782 – 19 November 1831), better known as Titumir, was one of the first Bengali-speaking revolutionaries in British India who developed a strand of Islamic revivalism, sometimes also for Bengali nationalism coupled with agrarian and political consciousness. He is famed for having built a large bamboo fort to resist the British, which passed into Bengali Muslim folk legend.
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Key facts
- Religious biography.religion
- Sunni Islam
- Religious biography.name
- Titumir Syed Mir Nasir Ali
- Religious biography.image
- File:Syed Mir Nisar Ali (Titumir).jpg
- Religious biography.birth_place
- Chandpur, Bengal Presidency, British India
- Religious biography.death_place
- Narikelbaria, Bengal Presidency, British India
- Religious biography.other_names
- Titumir
- Religious biography.known_for
- Titumir's rebellion
- Religious biography.influences
- Sayyid Ahmad Barelvi, Shah Ismail Dehlvi, Shah Jalal
- Religious biography.main_interests
- Islamic revivalism,Separatism,Jihad,Fiqh
- Religious biography.jurisprudence
- Hanafi
- Religious biography.influenced
- Almost all Bengali-speaking Separatist and Islamic Revivalist movements (including Bangladesh Islami Chhatrashibir, Intifada Bangladesh, Mukti Bahini, Bangladesh Liberation war, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami)
- Religious biography.title
- MujaddidHafiz MujahidShaykhBadshah
- Religious biography.movement
- Tariqah-i-Muhammadiya
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Religious-political activism
- Islamic resurgence
- Confrontation with zamindars
- Confrontations with the Company and Zamindars
- State declaration
- Final battle
- Contemporary reception
- Legacy
- References
Syed Mir Nisar Ali (27 January 1782 – 19 November 1831), better known as Titumir, was one of the first Bengali-speaking revolutionaries in British India who developed a strand of Islamic revivalism, sometimes also for Bengali nationalism coupled with agrarian and political consciousness. He is famed for having built a large bamboo fort to resist the British, which passed into Bengali Muslim folk legend.
Titumir was ranked number 11 in the BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of All Time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Titumir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.