 Habibur Rahman was a prominent leader of the Khilafat Movement in East Bengal.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.He edited "Al Mushriq", an Urdu monthly journal, in 1906, and launched another Urdu monthly, "Jadu", together with Khwaja Adel in 1924.