Muhammad Habibur Rahman
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Muhammad Habibur Rahman (3 December 1928 – 11 January 2014) was a Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1995.[1] He was the Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh.[1] He was a faculty member at the Department of Law, University of Rajshahi and University of Dhaka. Besides, being a language activist, advocate of the Bengali language, he wrote extensively and published eight books on the subject.[2] He played a significant role to implement Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.[3] He wrote Jathashabdo (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.[4]
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Habibur Rahman | |
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মুহাম্মদ হাবিবুর রহমান | |
Acting Prime Minister of Bangladesh | |
In office 31 March 1996 – 23 June 1996 | |
President | Abdur Rahman Biswas |
Preceded by | Khaleda Zia |
Succeeded by | Sheikh Hasina |
7th Chief Justice of Bangladesh | |
In office 1 February 1995 – 30 April 1995 | |
Appointed by | Abdur Rahman Biswas |
President | Abdur Rahman Biswas |
Prime Minister | Khaleda Zia |
Preceded by | Shahabuddin Ahmed |
Succeeded by | A. T. M. Afzal |
Personal details | |
Born | (1928-12-03)3 December 1928 Murshidabad, Bengal Presidency, British India |
Died | 11 January 2014(2014-01-11) (aged 85) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Political party | Independent |
Alma mater | University of Dhaka University of Oxford |
Rahman was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 and Ekushey Padak in 2007 by the Government of Bangladesh. He served as a Fellow of Bangla Academy, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and Worcester College, Oxford.[1]