Abdur Rahman Chatgami Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

He died of old age on 10 November 2015 in Bashundhara, Dhaka. The chairman of Bashundhara Group, Ahmed Akbar Sobhan expressed condolences.

From 1983 to 1992 Mufti Abdur Rahman was a member of the 1st Shariah Council of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. Since then, he played an important role in the Islamic banking sector as shariah supervisor in various banks of the country. He was elected Chairman of the Central Shariah Board for Islamic Banks of Bangladesh (CSBIB) in 2007. In the meantime, worked as chairman of the Shariah Council of Al Arafah Islami Bank and as vice chairman of the Shariah Board of Social Investment Bank. He was also Shariah adviser of the Oriental Bank for a short period of time. He also serves as the Chairman of Shariah Board of Shahjalal Islami Bank. Abdur Rahman participated in different seminars and traveled to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, India and Pakistan.

Abdur Rahman Chatgami (Bengali: আব্দুর রহমান চাটগামী; 1920–2015), also known as Faqihul Millat, was a Bangladeshi Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school. He was born in Imam Nagar, Fatikchhari, Chittagong, in 1920. He was the founder director of the Islamic Research Center Bangladesh, Dhaka.

Abdur Rahman was born in 1920, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Imamnagar in Fatikchhari, Chittagong District, British India. His father was known as Chan Miah. Abdur Rahman completed his higher secondary education from Darul Uloom Muinul Islam Hathazari. Then he went to Darul Uloom Deoband for further studies. There Abdur Rahman successfully completed Dawra e Hadith and then engaged himself at the same institution in research in the field of Ifta (Islamic jurisprudence).