Tibbia Habibia College has been producing Unani physician with the title DUMS (Diploma in Unani Medicine and Surgery). Hakim Habibur Rahman is still remembered and respected for this establishment. This was not only a college, it was the pioneer of Unani medicine revolution in Bangladesh. Tibbia Habibia College is the one of oldest medical colleges and the oldest Unani medical college in Bangladesh. Apart from his general support to the Dhaka Museum, he donated 231 old coins, some of gold and silver, to the museum in 1936. He founded the Tibbia Habibia College in Dhaka in 1930. He edited Al Mushriq, an Urdu monthly journal, in 1906, and launched another Urdu monthly, Jadu, together with Khwaja Adel in 1924.

In the 1920s and '30s he performed as a major arbitrator for the Sardar community of Dhaka, who were the traditional leaders of the Panchayet system of local government of Dhaka. Habibur Rahman was a prominent leader of the Khilafat Movement in East Bengal. In 1939 he was awarded the title of Shifaul Mulk for his contribution in the field of Unani medicine by the British government. Habibur Rahman trained for 11 years in tibb (traditional medical practice) and the Unani system of medicine at Kanpur, Lucknow, Delhi and Agra after completing his studies at Dhaka Madrasah. The Hakim Habibur Rahman Lane carries his name near his birthplace, the Choto Katra, a landmark in the old part of Dhaka. His wide collection of manuscripts, coins, weapons and artefacts is preserved at the Dhaka University Library as the Hakim Habibur Rahman Collection. His two chronicles of Dhaka, Asudegan-e-Dhaka and Dhaka Panchas Baras Pahle, remain important primary source material for researchers working on Dhaka. Rahman was a close associate of Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah of the Dhaka Nawab Family. (23 March 1881 – 23 February 1947) was an Unani physician, litterateur, journalist, politician and chronicler in early 20th-century Dhaka, British India (now Bangladesh).

Physician, writer, journalist, politician

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