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Shah Abdul Hannan has considerable amount of writings on Islamic economics and banking as well as social, cultural and women issues. He worked with groups of Islamic scholars to produce two volumes of "Economics in Al-Quran" and two volumes on "Codified Islamic law", covering all possible aspect of Islamic Law, in Bengali. He was actively involved in Islamic works since he was a student. He studied Arabic in Islamic Foundation, Dhaka from 1972 till 1974. He was an ardent student of Islamic Sciences and studied, particularly, tafsir, Hadith, commentary, usul-al fiqh, Islamic economic and banking. He held many appointments and retired as the Secretary of the govt. of Bangladesh in 1998. At different times he held charges of Social welfare Ministry, Banking Division and Internal Resource Division of the government of Bangladesh. While in civil service, he was involved with establishing the first Islamic bank in Bangladesh. Banking act was amended to facilitate Islamic banking and two more Islamic banks were allowed to function when he was deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank (central bank). |
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