Munshi Mohammad Meherullah

Bangabandhu
Munshi Mohammad Meherullah
মুনশী মোহাম্মদ মেহেরুল্লাহ
Personal life
Born1861
Died7 May 1907(1907-05-07) (aged 45–46)
Senior posting
Disciples
Arabic name
Personal (Ism)Muḥammad Mihirullāh
محمد مهر الله
Patronymic (Nasab)ibn Muḥammad Wārith
بن محمد وارث
Toponymic (Nisba)al-Jasarī
الجسري

Munshi Mohammad Meherullah (1861 – 7 May 1907) was a Bengali Islamic scholar, poet and social reformer. He is best known for his oratory and writing on Islam and comparative religion and his efforts has been compared to Raja Ram Mohan Roy's defense of Hinduism against anti-Hindu views expounded by Christian missionaries in India. In 1891, writer Mirza Muhammad Yusuf Ali referred to Munshi Meherullah as Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengal) in the introduction to his book 'Dughd-Sarobar'.