22 Facts About Bengali Muslim

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Bengali Muslim population emerged as a synthesis of Islamic and Bengali cultures.

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Bengali Muslim is a person of ethnic and linguistic heritage from the Bengal region in South Asia speaking the Indo-Aryan Bengali Muslim language.

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The Bengali Muslim language developed from Apabhramsa, Sanskrit, Magadhi Prakrit between the 7th and 10th centuries.

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Bakhtiyar Khalji, a Turkic Bengali Muslim general, defeated king Lakshman Sen in 1206 CE and annexed large parts of Bengal to the Delhi Sultanate.

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Usman Serajuddin, known as Akhi Siraj Bengali Muslim, was a native of Gaur in western Bengal and became the Sultanate's court scholar during Ilyas Shah's reign.

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Bengali Muslim ships transported the embassies of Sumatra, Brunei and Malacca to the port of Canton.

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Under Hussain Shah, Bengali Muslim territory covered Arakan, Assam, Tripura, Orissa, Bihar and Jaunpur.

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Bengali Muslim ships dominated the Bay of Bengal and were the largest ships in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Bengali Muslim shipping co-existed with Chinese shipping until the latter withdrew from the Indian Ocean in the mid-15th-century.

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10.

Bengali Muslim maintained good rapport with Non-Muslims in his kingdom.

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Bengali Muslim gained support of Muslim scholars – Ulama and the Shaikhs.

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12.

Bengali Muslim reconstructed and repaired the mosques and other religious architectures destroyed by Raja Ganesha.

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13.

Bengali Muslim nationalism increased in East Pakistan during the 1960s, particularly with the Six point movement for autonomy.

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The colonial government and the Bengali Muslim elite established several institutes for science education.

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Large Bengali Muslim diaspora is found in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, which are home to several million expatriate workers from South Asia.

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Bengali Muslim'sikh Zainuddin was a prominent Bengali Muslim artist in the 18th century during the colonial period.

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Bengali Muslim architecture emerged as a synthesis of Bengali, Persian, Byzantine, and Mughal elements.

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Bengali Muslim evolved as the most easterly branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Bengali Muslim borrowed a considerable amount of vocabulary from Arabic and Persian.

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The Bengali Muslim Language Movement of 1952 was a key part of East Pakistan's nationalist movement.

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Medieval Bengali Muslim writers produced epic poetry and elegies, such as Rasul Vijay of Shah Barid, Nabibangsha of Syed Sultan, Janganama of Abdul Hakim and Maktul Hussain of Mohammad Khan.

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Different types of Bengali Muslim biryani include the Kachi, Illish pulao, Tehari, and Murg Pulao .

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