Syed Sultan

Syed Sultan (c. 1550–1648) was a medieval Bengali Muslim poet, born at Habiganj in the Taraf region of greater Sylhet, into a family claiming royal descent. He devoted his verse to Islamic themes and championed the Bengali language against maulvis who despised the vernacular.

His masterpiece, the Nabibangsha of 1584, retells the lives of the prophets in Bengali epic verse and is one of the earliest Bengali adaptations of the Qisas al-Anbiya. In it he expressed his love for his mother tongue.