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{{infobox officeholder
| name = Abdul Mannan
| native_name = আবদুল মান্নান
| native_name_lang = bn
| office = [[Ministry of Religious Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of Religious Affairs]]
| term_start = 1986
| term_end = 14 June 1988<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ershad Fires Religion Minister|url=https://apnews.com/article/d9604c7a93528a93c0de21bd17d08e5c|access-date=2020-11-10|work=AP News}}</ref>
| constituency_MP1 = Comilla-24<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of 2nd Parliament Members|url=https://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-2nd-parliament-members-bangla|access-date=2020-09-09|website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref>
| term_start1 = 2 April 1979
| term_end1 = 24 March 1982
| predecessor1 = Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of 1st Parliament Members|url=https://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-1st-parliament-members|access-date=2020-09-09|website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref>
| successor1 = ''Position abolished''
| constituency_MP2 = [[Chandpur-6]]
| term_start2 = 10 July 1986
| term_end2 = 6 December 1990
| predecessor2 = ''Position created''
| successor2 = [[Alamgir Hyder Khan]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=List of 5th Parliament Members|url=https://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-5th-parliament-members-bangla|access-date=2020-09-09|website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref>
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| death_date = {{death date and given age|2006|2|6|71|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
}}

'''Abdul Mannan''' (died 6 February 2006)<ref name=nomore/> was a Bangladeshi religious leader and journalist who served as the Minister for Religious Affairs in the cabinet of [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]]. He was a key collaborator of the [[Pakistan Army|Pakistani Army]] and was accused of war crimes during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Liberation war of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Inqilab press sealed, 3 arrested |url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2014/01/16/police-raid-inqilab-office |newspaper=BDNews24 |date=16 January 2016 |access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref>

==Political career==
Mannan was a general secretary of the Islamic Advisory Council and Regional Council during the administration of [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]].

===Opposition to the independence of Bangladesh===
On 29 September, under the leadership of Mannan, a group of the teachers of [[Madrasah]] met [[Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi]]. At that meeting, Mannan gave a copy of the Quran to general Niazi and stated that they are ready to support the Pakistan army to preserve the security of Pakistan and the glory of Islam.<ref name=genocide>{{cite book |last1=Śarīpha |first1=Āhamada |date=1987 |title=Genocide '71, An Account of the Killers and Collaborators |location=Dhaka |publisher=Muktijuddha Chetana Bikash Kendra |page=107 |oclc=21593686}}</ref>

Mannan was allegedly involved in the abduction and murder of physician [[AFM Alim Chowdhury]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Śarīpha |first1=Āhamada |date=1987 |title=Genocide '71, An Account of the Killers and Collaborators |location=Dhaka |publisher=Muktijuddha Chetana Bikash Kendra |pages=108–110 |oclc=21593686}}</ref>

===After 1971===
After independence, he became the president of the Jamiat-e- Mudarressin Bangladesh, an organisation of madrasah teachers and the founder of the ''[[Daily Inqilab]]'', one of the country's highly circulated newspapers.<ref name=nomore/><ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=President and PM condole death of Maulana Mannan|url=http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2006/02/05/president-and-pm-condole-death-of-maulana-mannan |newspaper=BDNews24 |date=5 February 2006 |access-date=4 August 2016}}</ref> In ''Saptahik Bichitra'' (a weekly magazine), Mannan denied that he had been a member of [[Peace committee]] and claimed that he had not issued any statement in favor of [[Pakistan Army]] and the genocide committed by them.<ref name=genocide />

In 1979, he was elected a lawmaker from [[Chandpur District|Chandpur]] and was appointed minister by President [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]]'s cabinet.<ref name=nomore>{{cite news |title=Maulana Mannan no more |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/02/07/d60207011916.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=7 February 2006}}</ref><ref name="South Asia Analysis Group">{{cite web |url=http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/paper232 |title=Bangladesh: A Bengali Abbasi Lurking Somewhere? Paper no. 232. |last=Raman |first=B. |date=23 April 2001 |website=South Asia Analysis Group}}</ref>

==Trial and release==
Hotel Intercontinental and Holy Family Hospital was declared neutral zones by the government on 11 December 1971. Mannan took shelter in one of these zones.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Śarīpha |first1=Āhamada |date=1987 |title=Genocide '71, An Account of the Killers and Collaborators |location=Dhaka |publisher=Muktijuddha Chetana Bikash Kendra |page=77 |oclc=21593686}}</ref>

In a report released in March 1994, a People's Inquiry Commission, identified, in addition to [[Ghulam Azam]], eight others as the collaborators of the [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)|Al-Badr]] in the atrocities. Mannan was one of those identified collaborators.<ref name="South Asia Analysis Group"/>

[[Shyamoli Nasrin Chowdhury]], wife of the [[AFM Alim Chowdhury]], alleges that Mannan was responsible for the death of her husband.<ref>{{cite news |title=Al-Badr Mannan, whom we sheltered killed my husband-Shyamoli Nasrin Chowdhury |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=453738$date=2014-12-08&dateCurrent=2014-12-18 |publisher=BSS |date=8 December 2014 |access-date=4 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827053900/http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=453738$date=2014-12-08&dateCurrent=2014-12-18 |archive-date=27 August 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> She filed a case against Mannan.<ref name="New Age">[http://www.newagebd.com/2009/dec/14/front.html ''New Age'', a Daily Newspaper].{{dead link|date=August 2016}}</ref> The absconding Mannan was caught by police from the [[Azimpur, Dhaka|Azimpur]] area of the city of [[Dhaka]]. Mannan confessed that three members of the [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)|Al-Badr]] who were his students took away AFM Alim Chowdhury.

Mannan was taken to the [[Dhaka Central Jail]] on 27 December. He was released for some unknown reason and went into hiding.

==Death==
Mannan died on 6 February 2006 at his [[Banani Model Town|Banani]] residence in Dhaka.<ref name=":0" /> His funeral was held at the Gausul Azam Mosque Complex in [[Mohakhali]] the next day where he was buried.<ref name=nomore />

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Abdul Mannan Bangladeshi politician - Revision history

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