Tehzeeb-e-Niswan ( ur, ) was an Islamic weekly magazine for women, started by

Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Deobandi (27 September 1860 – 15 June 1935) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and an advocate of women rights in the late nineteenth century. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. His book ''Huquq-e-Niswan'' and the j ...

along with his wife Muhammadi Begum in 1898. It is regarded as the pioneering work on women rights in Islam. It was published from

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between 1898 and 1949.

History

Named ''Tehzeeb-e-Niswan'' by Syed Ahmad Khan, this women rights magazine was started by

along with his wife Muhammadi Begum in 1898. Its first issue was published on 1 July 1898. It started with eight pages and subsequently had 10 pages, and finally sixteen pages. Mumtaz Ali's wife was the first editor of ''Tehzeeb-e-Niswan'' and after her death, Mumtaz Ali's daughter Waheeda Begum edited the magazine. It was later edited by Mumtaz Ali's son Imtiaz Ali Taj, and scholarly figures including Abdul Majeed Salik and

Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi ( ur, ) born Ahmad Shah Awan ( ur, ) (20 November 1916 - 10 July 2006) was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction ...

also edited it. The magazine helped many female writers gain prominence. In her research work titled ''Feminism in Modern Urdu Poetesses'', Ambreen Salahuddin wrote that "from the very first issue a large number of women started writing for this magazine nearly all of them wrote reformative articles against dowry superstitions or extravagance etc." According to

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, ''Tehzeeb-e-Niswan'' had 60 or 70 subscribers after three or four months, and after four years it had 300 or 400 subscribers. The magazine discontinued in 1949.

Legacy

Commending Mumtaz Ali for ''Tehzeeb-e-Niswan'', Pakistani historian

Ghulam Rasool Mehr Ghulam Rasool Mehr (13 April 1895 – 16 November 1971) (غلام رسول مہر) was a Pakistani Muslim scholar and political activist born in Phoolpur, a village in the district of Jalandhar, British India. Early life Mehr went to primary sch ...

said that,

References

External links

19th volume of ''Tehzeeb-e-Niswan'' i.e. 1916 issues
on Rekhta
Sayyid Mumtaz Ali and Tehzeeb-e-Niswan: Women's Rights in Islam
by Gail Minault. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tehzeeb-e-Niswan Islamic magazines Magazines established in 1898 Magazines disestablished in 1949 Mass media in Lahore Urdu-language magazines Weekly magazines published in Pakistan Women's magazines published in Pakistan Women's rights