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| name = Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad<br />
| native_name = আবদুল করিম সাহিত্যবিশারদ<br />
| image = Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1871-1953).svg<br />
| birth_date = {{circa|1871}}<br />
| birth_place = Suchakradandi, [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now in [[Patiya Upazila]], [[Chittagong District]], Bangladesh)<br />
| death_date = {{death year and age|1953|1871}}<br />
| occupation = Writer<br />
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'''Abdul Karim''' (1871 – 1953), known as '''Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad''', was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] littérateur, historian of Bangla literature and collector and interpreter of old Bangla manuscripts.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Islam |first=Sirajul |year=2012 |chapter=Karim, Sahityavisharad Abdul|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Karim,_Sahityavisharad_Abdul |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Karim |editor2-first=Abdul|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/abdul-karims-discoveries-origins-modernity-bengali-literature-154528 | title=Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature | work=The Daily Star | date=10 October 2015 | access-date=23 September 2016 | author=Khan, Salimullah}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Karim was born in Suchakradandi village, [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now in [[Patiya Upazila]], [[Chittagong District]], Bangladesh). He passed his Entrance Examination in 1893 from Patiya High School. He served as a teacher in few schools. He later joined the office of the Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong and became Divisional Inspector of schools. He retired from the position in 1934.<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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==Literary career==<br />
[[File:Abdul Karim Sahityavisharad Reference Library (01).jpg|thumb|Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad Reference Library at Chittagong University Museum]]<br />
Karim had a special research interest in Muslim contribution to [[Bengali Literature]] in the medieval period. He collected [[puthi]]s (old Bangla manuscripts). The Bangiya Sahitya Parisad published his catalog of Bengali manuscripts titled ''Bangala Prachin Puthir Bivaran'' in two volumes in 1920–21. The Department of Bengali of the [[University of Dhaka]] published a catalog of the manuscripts preserved in the University Library under the title ''Puthi Parichiti''.<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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Karim edited and published eleven old Bengali texts and a book on the history and culture of Chittagong, titled ''Islamabad''. [[Daulat Qazi]], [[Alaol]], [[Syed Sultan]] and Muhamad Khan were notable Bengali poets. Karim discovered about a hundred Muslim poets whose names and works were not known before.<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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Literary Association of Nadia honored him with the title of ''Sahitya Sagar'' and Chattal Dharmamandali Sabha gave him the title of ''Sahitya Visharad''.<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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==Legacy==<br />
The [[Government of Bangladesh]] conferred [[Independence Day Award]] to Karim posthumously in 1995.<ref name=indepen>{{cite web|url=http://brri.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/brri.portal.gov.bd/page/87944ec4_496e_415d_af37_27a10fb35625/Independence%20Day%20Award.pdf|title=Independence Day Award|access-date=23 September 2016|publisher=Government of Bangladesh}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*''Golpo Songroho'' (Collected Stories), the national textbook of B.A. (pass and subsidiary) course of Bangladesh, published by [[University of Dhaka]] in 1979 (reprint in 1986).<br />
*''Bangla Sahitya'' (Bengali Literature), the national textbook of the intermediate (college) level of Bangladesh published in 1996 by all educational boards.<br />
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