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Mohammad Lutfur Rahman

Bengali poet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6892154 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mohammad Lutfur Rahman (1889–1936), a Bengali homeopathist and author, was born in Magura District.

Early life and education

Mohammad Lutfur Rahman was born in 1889 to Sardar Muinuddin Ahmad and Shamsun Nahar in the village of Parnanduali in Magura, Jessore District, Bengal Presidency. He belonged to a Bengali family of Muslim Sardars hailing from the village of Hajiganj in Magura. Lutfur Rahman completed his entrance examination from Magura English High School in 1915, and later completed a degree in homeopathy from a specialist college in Krishnanagar, Nadia.

Career

Lutfur Rahman was a teacher and afterwards went to Calcutta and established a helping house for women named, ‘Naritirtha’. He published a magazine named Narishakti. Later, Mohammad Lutfur Rahman became a homeopathic doctor.

Writing career

His literary works were included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, higher secondary and graduation level Bengali literature in Bangladesh.

Self-development books

Unnoto Jibon

Manob Jibon

Mohot Jibon

Shotto Jibon

Uccho Jibon

Jubak Jibon

Dharmo Jibon

Cheleder Mohottokotha

Musolman

Mangal Vabishat

Priti Upohar

Bashor Upohar

Raihan

Pothohara

Uddom o Porishrrom

Poetry

Prokash

Translations

Chotoder Karbala

Don Quixote

References

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).

Bangla Sahitya (Bengali Literature), the national textbook of intermediate (college) level of Bangladesh published in 1996 by all educational boards.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mohammad Lutfur Rahman” as bengali poet. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 1936, 1915, 1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1889-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Mohammad, Lutfur and Rahman can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as bengali poet. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6892154. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1889, 1936, 1915 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohammad Lutfur Rahman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.