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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| honorific_prefix = [[Moulvi]]<br />
| name = Abdul Munim Choudhury<br />
| native_name = আব্দুল মুনিম চৌধুরী<br />
| office = Member of [[Assam Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start = 1957<br />
| term_end = 1967<br />
| constituency = [[Karimganj South Assembly constituency|Karimganj South]]<br />
| predecessor = [[Moulvi M. Ali]]<br />
| successor = [[Prafulla Choudhury]]<br />
| birth_date = <br />
| birth_place = Bagbari, [[Karimganj district|Karimganj]], [[Sylhet Division|Sylhet district]] (now [[Assam]], India)<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| relatives = [[Najib Ali Choudhury]] (great-grandfather)<br />
| module = {{Infobox religious biography|embed=yes|religion=[[Islam]]|denomination=[[Sunni]]|jurisprudence=[[Hanafi]]|movement=[[Deobandi]]}}<br />
}}<br />
[[Moulvi]] '''Abdul Munim Choudhury''' ({{langx|bn|আব্দুল মুনিম চৌধুরী}}) was an Indian [[Bengalis|Bengali]] politician and [[Islamic scholar]]. He twice served as member of the [[Assam Legislative Assembly]] for the [[Karimganj South Assembly constituency|Karimganj South]] constituency.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Assam Election Results, 1962 |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3992-assam-1962/ |publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|access-date=11 February 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and family==<br />
Choudhury was born into a scholarly [[Bengali Muslim]] family of [[Chowdhury|Choudhuries]] in the village of Bagbari in [[Karimganj district|Karimganj]] (then under [[Sylhet Division|Sylhet district]]). His ancestors had either migrated from [[Ghor Province]] in [[Afghanistan]] during the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal period]], or were descended from Shah Umar Yemeni, one of the 360 companions of the [[Sufi]] saint [[Shah Jalal]].<ref name="Rahman2009">{{cite book|last1=Rahman|first1=Md. Matiur|last2=Bhuiya|first2=Abdul Musabbir|title=Teaching of Arabic language in Barak Valley: a historical study (14th to 20th century)|url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/92871/7/07_chapter%203.pdf |year=2009|publisher=Assam University|location=Silchar|pages=59–60}}</ref> Choudhury's great-grandfather, [[Najib Ali Choudhury]], was an [[Islamic scholar]] who had founded [[Madinatul Uloom Bagbari]], the first modern [[madrasa]] in the Sylhet region, and his grandfather Ghulam Rab Choudhury was also an Islamic scholar. Choudhury was educated in the Islamic tradition and received the title of [[Moulvi]].<ref name="LaskarBarbhuiya2019">{{cite book|last1=Laskar|first1=Ali Haidar|last2=Barbhuiya|first2=Atiqur Rahman|title=Indigenous People of Barak Valley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SLMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT86|year=2019|publisher=Notion Press|isbn=978-1-64678-800-2|page=86}}</ref><br />
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According to a handwritten manuscript by his grandfather's elder brother [[Abdul Hai Choudhury]], the family was descended from Gawhar Khan, a nobleman from [[Badakhshan]]. Khan was said to have given up his wealth to his younger brother, and become a [[da'i]] in [[Mughal Empire|Hindustan]], taking with him a handwritten ancestral [[mus'haf]] by Mir Husayn (dating to 1056 [[Islamic calendar|AH]] / 1647 CE), gilded by Muhammad Yusuf Ali. The emperor granted him [[jagir]]s near the village of Kaliganj, near present-day [[Karimganj district]].<ref name=tajul>{{citation|author=Qasemi, Ataur Rahman|publisher=[[Madinatul Uloom Bagbari]]|editor=Choudhury, Tajul|title=একটি উজ্জল ইতিহাস|language=bn|year=2021}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
In 1948, Choudhury was appointed the first Shaykhul Hadith (Professor of [[Hadith]]) at the [[Madinatul Uloom Bagbari]] madrasa.<ref name=tajul/><br />
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He was associated with the [[Indian National Congress]]. He won a seat in the [[Karimganj South Assembly constituency|Karimganj South]] constituency after participating in the [[1962 Assam Legislative Assembly election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.elections.in/assam/assembly-constituencies/karimganj-south.html|title=Karimganj South (Assam) Assembly Constituency Elections|website=Elections.in|access-date=6 September 2022}}</ref><br />
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