Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani; used for entity facts only. It gives his birth on 12 December 1880 (his birth year is disputed, 1880–1885), his taking as a disciple (talib-e-ilm) by the pir Sayyid Nasir al-Din al-Baghdadi in 1904 and his study at Deoband (1907–1909), his attaining pir status, his founding of the Awami Muslim League in 1949 and the National Awami Party in 1957, and his death at Dhaka on 17 November 1976 with burial at Santosh. Its religious-life infobox gives Islam, Sunni, Hanafi and Deobandi.