Tungipara Sheikh family

{{Short description|Bangladeshi political family}}

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{{Infobox Family

| name = Tungipara Sheikh family
টুঙ্গিপাড়া শেখ বংশ

| crest = 240px

| caption = Residence of Sheikh family in Tungipara, Gopalganj (Beside Mausoleum of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman)

| region = Bangladesh
United Kingdom
United States
India
Canada

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| origin = Baghdad, Iraq{{Cite journal |url=https://geniusjournals.org/index.php/esh/article/view/323 |title=The Representation of The Cultural and Social Variations in The Work "Unfinished Memoirs" Of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Translated from English into Russian Languages |date=2021-12-30 |access-date=2024-12-19 |first=Abushaev Amir |last=Kamilevich |journal=Eurasian Scientific Herald |volume=3 |pages=52–58 |issn=2795-7365 |archive-date=19 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241219125133/https://geniusjournals.org/index.php/esh/article/view/323 |url-status=live }}

| founded = Early 18th Century

| founder = Sheikh Abdul Awal

| members = See below

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| distinctions = Political prominence within the Bangladesh Awami League, Labour Party (UK) and Bangladesh Jatiya Party

| heirlooms =

| estate = Tungipara Sheikh Bari

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Tungipara Sheikh family ({{langx|bn|টুঙ্গিপাড়া শেখ বংশ|Ṭuṅgipāṛā śēkh bôngśô}}) of Tungipara is one of the two most prominent Bangladeshi political families, other being the Zia family. The family primarily consists of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina, Sheikh Rehana and their relatives.{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mujibur-Rahman |title=Mujibur Rahman Family |encyclopedia=Britannica |date=11 August 2023 |access-date=9 September 2023 |archive-date=16 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416203911/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mujibur-Rahman |url-status=live }} Their political involvement has traditionally revolved around the Bangladesh Awami League.{{cite magazine |last=Amundsen |first=Inge |date=November 2013 |title=Dynasty or Democracy? Party politics in Bangladesh |url=https://www.cmi.no/publications/file/4974-dynasty-or-democracy-party-politics-in-bangladesh.pdf |magazine=CMI Brief |location=Bergen |publisher=Chr. Michelsen Institute |volume=12 |issue=6 |access-date=24 January 2016 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202080339/https://www.cmi.no/publications/file/4974-dynasty-or-democracy-party-politics-in-bangladesh.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite book |last1=Derichs |first1=Claudia |last2=Thompson |first2=Mark R. |date=2013 |title=Dynasties and Female Political Leaders in Asia: Gender, Power and Pedigree |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UKBcLhCxSvQC&pg=PA115 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |pages=115– |isbn=978-3-643-90320-4}}{{cite news |title=Bangladesh shaken by war of the dynasties |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-shaken-by-war-of-the-dynasties-436023.html |date=2007-02-12 |newspaper=The Independent |location=Dhaka |access-date=2017-01-24 |archive-date=9 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309224504/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-shaken-by-war-of-the-dynasties-436023.html |url-status=live }}{{cite magazine |magazine=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2010/01/bangladesh |title=In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina settles scores |date=2010-01-22 |access-date=2017-01-24 |archive-date=17 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317215227/http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2010/01/bangladesh |url-status=live }}

Family origin

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The first member of the Tungipara Sheikh family to come to Bengal was Sheikh Abdul Awal Darwish. Sheikh Abdul Awal was born in a suburb of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. During the early eighteenth century, Sheikh Abdul Awal had travelled to Chittagong to pursue business and to promote Islam in the region of Bengal, similar to that of the founders of other Sheikh families of Bengal. Sheikh Abdul Awal had preached in Chittagong for many years, until he went to Sonargaon for business and started preaching there. He married into the Khandakar family of Kandirpar, Faridpur, later his son Sheikh Zahiruddin also married into this family. Many years later, Sheikh Zahiruddin moved to Kolkata with his son Sheikh Jan Mahmud, since their wholesale business was based there. Sheikh Jan Mahmud's son, Sheikh Borhanuddin, continued to run that wholesale business and eventually shifted back to East Bengal.

He married a girl from the Kazi family of Tungipara and permanently settled there. The Tungipara Sheikh family are related to a Sheikh family of Kolkata, a member of that family being Sheikh Assimuddin, the Kandirpar Sheikh family and a Sheikh family in Sonargaon as a result of these relocations.{{Cite book |last=Milton |first=Dr Abul Hasnat |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EmLeEAAAQBAJ&dq=kazi+family+of+tungipara&pg=PT25 |title=Sheikh Hasina: The Making of an Extraordinary South Asian Leader |date=2023-10-17 |publisher=Balboa Press |isbn=978-1-9822-9828-9 |language=en |archive-date=7 August 2024 |access-date=4 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240807154311/https://books.google.com/books?id=EmLeEAAAQBAJ&dq=kazi+family+of+tungipara&pg=PT25 |url-status=live }} Sheikh Borhanuddin had a son named Sheikh Ekramullah, who in turn had two sons: Sheikh Wasimuddin and Sheikh Mohammad Zakir. Sheikh Mohammad Zakir had three sons: Sheikh Abdul Majid, Sheikh Abdul Hamid, and Sheikh Abdul Rashid. Sheikh Abdul Hamid was the father of Sheikh Lutfar Rahman while his wife, Sayera Khatun, was the daughter of his father's brother, Sheikh Abdul Majid. Their son was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who married his third-cousin Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, great-granddaughter of Sheikh Wasimuddin (his great-grandfather Sheikh Zakir's brother). Sheikh Mujib and Begum Mujib's daughter, Sheikh Hasina, married M. A. Wazed in 1968.{{Cite book |last=Haque Khoka |first=Mominul |url=https://doc.liberationwarbangladesh.net/books/ahik/#p=20 |title=অস্তরাগের স্মৃতি সমুজ্জ্বল : বঙ্গবন্ধু, তাঁর পরিবার ও আমি |publisher=Shahitya Prakash |year=1998 |isbn= |edition= |location=Dhaka |pages=24 |language=bn |orig-year= |archive-date=21 April 2021 |access-date=21 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421211052/https://doc.liberationwarbangladesh.net/books/ahik/#p=20 |url-status=dead }}

Family tree

=Family of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman=

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= Family of Sheikh Fatema Begum =


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= Family of Sheikh Asia Begum =


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= Family of Sheikh Amena Begum and Abdur Rab Serniabat =


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= Family of Sheikh Abu Naser and Begum Razia Naser Dolly =


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=Family of Khadijah Hossain Lily and ATM Syed Hossain=


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Extended family & in-laws

See also

References

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{{Sheikh Mujibur Rahman}}

{{Sheikh Hasina}}

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