Titumir
Syed Nisar Ali Khan তিতুমীর | |
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| Title | Mujaddid Hafiz Mujahid Shaykh Badshah |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 27 January 1782 Chandpur, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 19 November 1831 (aged 49) Narikelbaria, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Main interest(s) | Islamic revivalism, Separatism, Jihad, Fiqh |
| Known for | Titumir's rebellion |
| Other names | Titumir |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Movement | Salafi-Wahhabi |
| Senior posting | |
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| Islam in Bangladesh |
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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 Bangladeshi 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.