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Mustafa Zaman Abbasi
Bangladeshi musicologist Mustafa Zaman Abbasi was born in Balarampur, Koch Bihar, then in British India, on 8 December 1936 into a well-connected and musical family. His father Abbasuddin Ahmed was a Pakistani folk song composer and singer, his sister is a composer and musician and his eldest brother was the Chief Justice of Bangladesh. He was trained by Indian classical musicians.
His more than fifty books include two on the Bhawaiya folk music of northern Bengal. These include approximately one thousand two hundred songs in staff notation. He also wrote books about thirteenth and seventeenth century poets and worked as a TV presenter.
Mustafa Zaman Abbasi died at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 10 May 2025, aged eighty-eight.