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A Research Journal Dept. of Islamic History wimvP© Rvb©vj Research Journal Z…Zxq msL¨v †g 2021 A Research Journal Department of Islamic History and Culture University of Rajshahi Bangladesh A Research Journal Department of Islamic History and Culture University of Rajshahi Vol. 3 May 2021 Published by Professor Dr. Md. Fazlul Haque Chief Editor & Chairman Department of Islamic History and Culture University of Rajshahi Rajshahi-6205 Cover Design Dr. Suman Sen Printed by Uttoran Offset Printing Press Greater Road, Rajshahi-6100 Price : Tk. 350 $ 7 ISSN No : 2664-780X Contact Address Chief Editor A Research Journal Department of Islamic History and Culture University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi-6205, Bangladesh E-mail: [email protected] www.ru.ac.bd/ihc EDITORIAL BOARD Chief Editor Professor Dr. Md. Fazlul Haque Chairman Department of Islamic History and Culture University of Rajshahi Members Professor Emeritus Dr. A K M Yaqub Ali Professor Dr. Kazi Md. Mostafizur Rahman Professor Dr. Mohammad Mohibullah Siddiquee Professor Dr. Syeda Nure Kaseda Khatun Professor Dr. Md. Azizul Haque Message from the Chief Editor The Research Journal, Department of Islamic History & Culture, is going to launch its third volume with 23 research articles contributed by the faculty members and researchers of Islamic History & Culture, History, and relevant other disciplines from home and abroad. The articles are of acceptable standards and will hopefully come to the use of the students and researchers of various discipline, specially of the Islamic History & Culture. The publication of the journal is the result of collective efforts of all the scholarly members of the editorial board. They have ungrudgingly helped me in its publication. I am grateful to them for their cooperation. I thank the teachers and officers of the department for their assistance and also the employees of the Uttoran Offset Printing Press for their support. The present volume (Vol. 3) is the last volume of the journal under my Chief Editorship. Earlier I had the opportunity to remain involved as Chief Editor both for Vol.1 and Vol. 2. I wish this journal every success in the succeeding volumes. Professor Dr. Md. Fazlul Haque Chief Editor and Chairman Department of Islamic History & Culture University of Rajshahi Rajshahi-6205 E-mail: [email protected] m~wPcÎ 1. My Historical Testament 1 Professor Bangabandhu Chair Dr. Syed Anwar Husain 2. The Oriental and Occidental Education in Bengal 9 Professor Emeritus Dr. A K M Yaqul Ali 3. Concept of History and Culture in Islam 23 Dr. Muhammad Gholam Rasul 4. Mughal Portrait Painting in the Collection of the Varendra 31 Research Museum, Rajshahi University: An Appraisal Dr. Najma Khan Majlis 5. Role of the Bengali Muslim Women in National Movements 39 (1920-1947) Dr. Saika Hossain 6. The Importance of Family : A comparative study between 48 Islam and Western Society Dr. Sumaiya Ahmed 7. Mughal Royal Ladies in Feasts, Fairs and Festivals 71 Dr. Tuhina Islam 8. Understanding the Turkish Modernization Period over 77 Laicite and Nationalism Reforms in Sebilürreşad Journal Fevzi Taha Hökelek, SelçukKahraman 9. British Colonial Rule in Burma: An Analysis of Burmese 84 Reaction Dr. Md Shayeed Hossain 10. The Rohingya Infiltration in Bangladesh: Response of the 96 World with special reference to Muslim Community Tamanna Siddiquee 11. •mq` Avgxi Avjx (1849-1928), gymwjg AvB‡bi BwZnvmwe`: GKwU 104 ch©v‡jvPbv W. Gg. b~iæj Bmjvg gbRyi 12. 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Avãyj gwZb 21. wkÿKe„‡›`i `„wófw½‡Z gva¨wgK ¯Í‡ii QvÎx‡`i S‡i covi KviY 228 AbymÜvb: cvebv †Rjvi Dci GKwU mgxÿv W. †gv. gvngy` Avjg, W. †gvnv¤§` bvwRgyj nK 22. iY`vcÖmv` mvnv : Rxeb I Kg© 244 Iqvmxg cvi‡fR wmwÏKx 23. aigcyi gmwR`: cÖPvinxb cÖZœm¤ú` 251 W. †gv. wRjøyi ingvb wimvP© Rvb©vj, Bmjv‡gi BwZnvm I ms¯‹…wZ wefvM, ivRkvnx wek¦we`¨vjq, Z…Zxq msL¨v, 2021 ISSN- 2664-780X My Historical Testament Dr. Syed Anwar Husain After having crossed over six and a half decades of my life as a homo sapien as I look over I find that the bulk of my life has been spent in the service of Clio. I have had history as my amour propre ever since I had my first exposure to this discipline as junior school student way back in the mid-fifties of the just gone by century. Ever since then history has also remained my first love; and most certainly, would remain so until my mortal life meets with predestined end. In fact, of the total length so far of my life more than two-thirds have been spent in teaching and researching history (I am not sure if I have ever been able to teach or research history; for I am yet to be properly blessed by Clio). But prima facie, history has been my profession; and more that that- a vocation. The prime reason for my romance with history is my unwavering knack for seeking truth as I trudge through mixed experiences of life. Rene Descartes and Mahatma Gandhi throughout their life sought and found truth in their own and different ways. I am quite unlike them, but have the audacity of hope to be one of them as a very humble seeker of truth. History, as well-known in Leopold von Ranke‟s construction, is a subject that seeks nothing but the “naked truth”. One qualifier is that the historical truth is tentative, not absolute. The historical truth changes as the supporting evidence changes; and even assumes different perspective as interpretations of facts vary. Nevertheless, history is a discipline which is overwhelmingly concerned with truth. As my active profession nears its prefixed end I deem it my duty to put in words my feelings about the discipline - with which I have so long had a romantic tryst. In effect, what I contemplate would end up being my historical testament (I admit such a claim may sound somewhat tendentious; and this is so in view of the fact that I have already put across that I am yet to comprehend history in its entirety, and for which reason, I still consider myself as an apprentice of history). But as I set out to do as per my humble undertaking I find myself simply overwhelmed by the enormity of changes and profundity of expansions that the discipline of history has undergone during my yet to be completed life time. I, like any denizen of the planet earth, have seen and lived through changes - some of which rewarding, and some disastrous. Indeed, change is always a mixed phenomenon. Yet it was the English poet John Donne, who in the 17th century had an unqualified commendation for change when he wrote. Change is the nursery; Of music, joy and eternity. Professor Bangabandhu Chair, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2 wimvP© Rvb©vj, Bmjv‡gi BwZnvm I ms¯‹…wZ But Winston Churchill was more discerning and realistic about change as he said, “There is nothing wrong with change if it is in the right direction.” Right or wrong, history has to be the record-keeper and analyser of changes. As such, the job of any historian (which I have all along been trying to be, but so far had no success) is really daunting. I History now needs reappraisal in terms of both definition and content as a discipline. It is disquietingly insufficient, and may even be erroneous to regard history as simple a record of the past or a discipline that means only a dialogue with the past (E.H. Carr). The ancient Indian wisdom vis-a-vis history as Iti + ha + asa meaning it was like this or things happened like this, although underscores the content of the discipline, fails as a definition in the contemporary context. Benedetto Croce provides the relevant cue for redefining history when he suggests that “all-history is contemporary history.” In suggesting so he appeared to depart form the prevalent idea of history and contemporaneity of all historical accounts. A professional historian, like any human being, is the product of his time and space and the ideas contemporaneous to him. But it does not mean that his mindset is not inclusive of only the host of ideas of past origin. He does borrow on the ideas preceding his time and space, but he does that by entwining the same with those of his contemporary times. Thus the mindset with which he goes about the business of historical studies combines both the past and the present perspectives. Nevertheless, as an entity, his mindset is a contemporary one, and he looks at the human happenings of the past through the prism of his contemporary mindset. In explaining the job of a historian in such a perspective one more angle of vision becomes pertinent. All history, and all works of historians have the present context; and which appear to be an exercise covering the gamut which spans the present and the past.
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