Muhammad Habibur Rahman
Muhammad Habibur Rahman | |
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মুহাম্মদ হাবিবুর রহমান | |
Habibur Rahman in 2011 | |
| Chief Adviser of Bangladesh | |
| In office 30 March 1996 – 23 June 1996 | |
| President | Abdur Rahman Biswas |
| Preceded by | Khaleda Zia (As Prime Minister) |
| Succeeded by | Sheikh Hasina (As Prime Minister) |
| 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 | 3 December 1928 Dayarampur, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 11 January 2014 (aged 85) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Party | Independent |
| Alma mater | University of Dhaka University of Oxford |
| Awards | Ekushey Padak Bangla Academy Literary Award |
Muhammad Habibur Rahman (3 December 1928 – 11 January 2014) was a Bangladeshi jurist and statesman who served as Chief Justice of Bangladesh in 1995. He was Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the June 1996 Bangladeshi general election. 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. He played a significant role to implement Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He wrote Jathashabdo (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.
Habibur 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.