Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904-74)
The eminent Bengali litterateur and novelist, Syed Mujtaba Ali was born in 1904 in Sylhet. He had his early education at a Government school in the district. In 1921 he came to Santiniketan and was among the first students of Visva-Bharati.
After leaving Santiniketan he took up a teaching assignment in Kabul at the invitation of the then Amir Amanullah. The term in Kabul over, he went to Germany where he did his research in Bonn University and received his doctorate. He then joined the Al Azhar University of Cairo to teach Comparative Philology.
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