Muhammad Habibur Rahman

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Muhammad Habibur Rahman
মুহাম্মদ হাবিবুর রহমান
Habibur Rahman in 2011
1st Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
In office 31 March 1996 – 23 June 1996
President	Abdur Rahman Biswas
Preceded by	Khaleda Zia (As Prime Minister
Succeeded by	Sheikh Hasina (As Prime Minister)
7th 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	(1928-12-03)3 December 1928 Murshidabad, Bengal, British India
Died	11 January 2014(2014-01-11) (aged 85) Dhaka, Bangladesh
Political 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 Chief Justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1995.^[1] He was the Chief Adviser of the 1996 caretaker government which oversaw the Seventh parliamentary elections in Bangladesh.^[1] 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.^[2] He played a significant role to implement Bengali in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.^[3] He wrote Jathashabdo (1974), the first thesaurus in the Bengali language.^[4]

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.^[1]