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{{Short description|Urdu poet}}
{{Unreliable sources|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox Muslim leader
| honorific_prefix = [[Mawlana]]<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
| name = Abul Aziz Muhammad Ismail Ali
| title = Alam
| birth_date = 1868
| death_date = 1937 (aged approximately 69)
| death_place = [[Kanaighat]], [[Sylhet District]]
| Maddhab = [[Hanafi]]
| school_tradition = [[Sunni]]
| main_interests = [[Hadith]], [[poetry]]
| works = Waz Nasihat, Poetry
| influences = [[Ghalib]]
| relatives = [[Ibrahim Ali Tashna]] (brother) [[Oliur Rahman]] (nephew)
| influenced = [[Anjab Ali Shawq]], [[Salahuddin Yusuf]]
| religion = [[Islam]]
| module = {{Infobox Arabic name|embed=yes
| ism = Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ʿAlī محمد إسماعيل علي
| nasab = ibn ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān بن عبد الرحمن
| laqab = Ālam آلم
| kunya = Abū al-ʿAzīz أبو العزيز}}
| nocat_wdimage = yes
}}
'''Abū al-ʿAzīz Muḥammad Ismāʿīl ʿAlī''' ({{langx|bn|আবুল আজীজ মোহাম্মদ ইসমাঈল আলী}}; 1868–1937) was a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] politician, teacher and activist of the [[Khilafat Movement]]. He wrote poetry in [[Urdu]] under the [[pen name]] of '''Ālam''' ([[Urdu]]: {{Nastaliq|آلم}}). His Diwan-i-Alam poem led to the [[Aliah University|Calcutta Alia Madrasa]] awarding him the title of ''Parrot of Bengal'' in 1910.<ref name=shahid>{{cite book|title=স্মৃতির পাতায় জালালাবাদ|author=Chowdhury, Shahid|publisher=Jalalabad Forum|location=[[Japan]]|year=1994|language=bn}}</ref>

== Early life and family ==
Abul Aziz Muhammad Ismail Ali was born in 1868, to a [[Bengali Muslim]] family in the village of Batiail in [[Kanaighat Upazila|Kanaighat]], [[Sylhet District]]. His father, Mawlana Shah Abdur Rahman Qadri, was a notable [[mufti]] by occupation. His younger brother was the scholar [[Ibrahim Ali Tashna]]. The family was descended from Shah Taqiuddin, a 14th-century Sufi missionary and companion of [[Shah Jalal]].<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|title=হায়াতে তাইয়্যিবা|author=Rahmatullah, Mohammad|year=1985}}</ref><ref name="মাসিক মদিনা, ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০০৯">Monthly Madina, February 2009 (in Bengali)</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Mashayekhe Assam|language=bn|author=Ragbi, Abdul Jalil|publisher=Nuri Islamic Foundation|location=[[Nagaon]], [[India]]}}</ref>

== Education ==
Ismail initially studied at home with his father before studying at the [[Ajiria Madrasa]] in Fulbari, [[Golapganj Upazila|Golapganj]].<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|title=কানাইঘাটের উলামায়ে কেরাম|volume=1|author=Abdur Rahim, Muhammad|publisher=Pandulipi Prakashan|date=March 2018}}</ref> After getting good results in [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]], he enrolled at the [[Aliah University|Calcutta Alia Madrasa]] and graduated in 1897. He was also a [[murid]] of [[Shah Fazl-e-Rahman|Fazlur Rahman Ganj-e-Muradabadi]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book|author=Bismil, Mohammad Abdul Jaleel|title=Silhat mein Urdu|publisher=[[Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu]]|year=1980|location=[[Karachi]]|url=https://www.rekhta.org/ebook-detail/salhat-mein-urdu-mohammad-abdul-jaleel-bismil-ebooks}}</ref>

== Career ==
Along with his Bengali mother-tongue, Ismail Alam became a confident speaker of Arabic, Persian, and [[Urdu]]. This enabled him to play an important role in the subcontinent-wide [[Khilafat Movement]], in addition to writing poetry. He used to judicial work. He also taught [[Hadith studies]] at the Madinatul Uloom, [[Gauripur, India|Gauripur]] in [[Assam]], [[Jhingabari Senior Fazil Madrasa]], and [[Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah|Sylhet Government Alia Madrasa]].<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|title=জালালাবাদের ইতিকতা|author=Chowdhury, Dewan Nurul Anwar Hossain|publisher=[[Bangla Academy]]|location=[[Dhaka]]}}</ref>

== Works ==
[[File:দিওয়ান-ই-আলম.jpg|thumb|The cover of Diwan-i-Alam, Ismail Alam's magnum opus]]
Ismail Alam mainly wrote poetry in the Persian and Urdu languages, which was common among the upper-class Muslims of [[South Asia]]. His [[magnum opus]], titled Diwan-i-Alam was noticed by William Hamilton Harley, the erstwhile principal of [[Aliah University|Calcutta Alia Madrasa]]. Harley awarded Alam the title of ''Banglar Tota'', or the ''Parrot of Bengal''.<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|title=মাদ্রাসা-ই-আলিয়ার ইতিহাস|author=Ahmad, Mamtaz Uddin|publisher=[[Islamic Foundation Bangladesh]]|date=February 2004}}</ref> Alam composed the [[Diwan (poetry)|diwan]] in 1910 from [[Kanpur]] in [[North India]] when he was in Qayyumi, Waqiee Mahalla, Tikapur. It contained a [[Prophetic biography|sirah]] and various [[naʽat]]s dedicated to the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]]. Anjab Ali Shawq, another Urdu poet of Bengal, referred to Alam as his teacher of poetry.<ref>{{cite book|language=bn|title=বাংলাদেশের সূফী সাধক|author=Saqlain, Ghulam|publisher=[[Islamic Foundation Bangladesh]]|location=[[Dhaka]]|pages=111–114}}</ref>

== Death ==
Alam was [[Visual impairment|blind]] in the last thirteen years of his life. He died in 1937. He was buried in the Sarakerbazar [[Eidgah]] graveyard, located 20 miles away from his village in [[Kanaighat Upazila|Kanaighat]].<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name=shahid/>
== References ==
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[[Category:Urdu-language poets]]
[[Category:Persian-language poets]]
[[Category:1868 births]]
[[Category:1937 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Kanaighat Upazila]]
[[Category:20th-century Bengali poets]]
[[Category:19th-century Bengali poets]]
[[Category:Academic staff of Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah]]
[[Category:Bengali Muslim scholars of Islam]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian poets]]
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Ismail Alam - Revision history

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