# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shah-abdul-karim
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:55:47.298Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shah-abdul-karim"
name: "Shah Abdul Karim"
slug: "shah-abdul-karim"
description: "Baul Shah Abdul Karim was a Bangladeshi Baul musician and philosopher. Widely regarded as one of the greatest Baul musicians of all time, he was called Baul Samrat. The Government of Bangladesh awarded him the Ekushey Padak, the country's second highest civilian decoration, in 2001. Alongside his enormous discography of Baul music, Karim had contributed significantly to developing the Baul philosophy; his work is generally seen as the refined continuation of classic Bauls like Fakir Lalon Shah. Beyond Baulism, Karim's multidisciplinary contribution to several sectors, including body theory, Sufism, Ma'rifa, and revolutionary music has made him one of the enduring examples of Bangladeshi secular pluralism."
tagline: "Bangladeshi musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shah_Abdul_Karim.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1916-02-15"
deathDate: "2009-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.890966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Shah Abdul Karim"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "শাহ আবদুল করিম"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/414f7baf-492e-4e61-9910-94c952532085"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ಬೌಲ್ ಶಾಹ್ ಅಬ್ದುಲ್ ಕರೀಂ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump