Tehzeeb-e-Niswan (magazine)

Tehzeeb-e-Niswan (Urdu: تہذیبِ نسواں‎) was an Islamic weekly magazine for women, started by Sayyid Mumtaz Ali along with his wife Muhammadi Begum in 1898. It is regarded as the pioneering work on women rights in Islam.[1] It was published from Lahore between 1898 and 1949.

Tehzeeb-e-Niswan
Cover image of 2 January 1943 issue of Tehzeeb-e-Niswan
First EditorMuhammadi Begum
Later editorsWaheeda Begum, Imtiaz Ali Taj, Abdul Majeed Salik, Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
CategoriesWomen Magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherSayyid Mumtaz Ali
FounderSayyid Mumtaz Ali, Muhammadi Begum
First issue1 July 1898
Final issue1949
CompanyDarul Isha'at, Lahore
Country British India (1898-1947)
 Pakistan (1947-1949)
Based inLahore
LanguageUrdu

History

Named Tehzeeb-e-Niswan by Syed Ahmad Khan,[2] this women rights magazine was started by Sayyid Mumtaz Ali along with his wife Muhammadi Begumin 1898.[3] Its first issue was published on 1 July 1898.[4] It started with eight pages and subsequently had 10 pages, and finally sixteen pages.[5]

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.[2] It was later edited by Mumtaz Ali's son Imtiaz Ali Taj,[2] and scholarly figures including Abdul Majeed Salik and Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi also edited it.[4]

According to Gail Minault, Tehzeeb-e-Niswan had 60 or 70 subscribers after three or four months, and after fours years it had 300 or 400 subscribers.[5] The magazine discontinued in 1949.[2][4]

Legacy

Commending Mumtaz Ali for Tehzeeb-e-Niswan, Pakistani historian Ghulam Rasool Mehr said that,

The girls of Muslim families, from Peshawar to Kanyakumari who have a bit of understanding about reading and writing or have gained higher education or are studying, are undoubtedly indebted to Shams al-Ulama Mawlāna Mumtaz Ali, who sacrificed his whole life for the betterment and education of women. If he have had tried in political or religious sphere, he would have been a great leader of the country, but it would have delayed or deferred education and upbringing of the half of the Nation, because there is no second to Mawlāna in this field."[4]

References
  1. Moaddel, Mansoor (1998). "Religion and Women: Islamic Modernism versus Fundamentalism". Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 37 (1): 116. doi:10.2307/1388032. JSTOR 1388032.
  2. Tahir Kamran (8 July 2018). "Re-imagining of Muslim Women - II". thenews.com.pk. The News International. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. Afsaneh Najmabadi; Jacqueline Siapno; Julie Peteet; Seteney Shami; Suad Joseph (eds.). Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Methodologies, paradigms and sources. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  4. Nayab Hasan Qasmi. "Mawlāna Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Deobandi". Darul Uloom Deoband Ka Sahafati ManzarNama. Idara Tehqeeq-e-Islami, Deoband. pp. 147–151.
  5. Kenneth W. Jones (1992). Religious Controversy in British India Dialogues in South Asian Languages. State University of New York Press. p. 191. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
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