Syed Mumtaz Ali, a feminist moulvi, and other feminist moulvis
It is a general
perception, albeit imperfect, that religious-inclined Muslims and particularly
Muslim students are against women’s rights. they are not supporting the thought
of women’s education, unnumbered say.
The fact is that Muslim students have perpetually been in favor of teaching girls and have supported giving them the rights that Islam has given them. However, at the hands of Muslims, a number of these Muslim students have suffered necessary for supporting women’s rights favoring unmanful education. Moulvi Syed Mumtaz Ali was one analogous person.
He launched AN Urdu magazine for girls and created
Muhammadi Muhammadan, his woman, its editor. it was the time 1898. And
fashionable angling ways in which utilized by social media zealots’ moment
weren't available e in smart previous days, however communicating services were
necessary for situ in British Asian nation and Mumtaz Ali often entered hate
correspondence, hole falls and curses.
The magazine was named
Tehzeeb-e-Niswan (conjointly written as Tehzeeb-un-Nissan at the masthead,
however, was typically referred to as Tehzeeb-e-Nissan). because the name
suggests, the magazine was supposed to reform the ladies, however, Moulvi
Mumtaz Ali’s fellow Muslims differed, and unnumbered of them felt he was dishonorable
for “deceiving” innocent Muslim girls.
Interestingly, Mumtaz Ali
had consulted Sir Syed Ahmed Khan before naming his journal, and Sir Syed,
whereas suggesting a title among various bones transferred to him, wrote back
angrily that he wasn't in favor of launching a journal for girls in the 1st
place. Sir Syed, one of the foremost sacred ultra-modernists and liberals,
wasn't in favor of women’s education. However, Mumtaz Ali determined and
Tehzeeb-e-Nissan, a yearly, was launched from the metropolis in 1898. It came
to the first-ever magazine within the key to possess had a lady as its editor.
Although Tehzeeb-e-Nissan wasn't Urdu’s 1st journal revealed merely for girls,
analogous earlier magazines had no unmanful staffers and editors were virile.
Before Moulvi Mumtaz Ali,
Urdu literature had seen a handful of feminist pens Moulvi Nazeer Ahmed Dehlvi
and Altaf Husain Hali. Nazeer Ahmed, a madressah- educated scholar of Islam and
Arabic, was a passionate supporter of women’s education and wrote Mirat- ul-
Aroos, AN Urdu novel, in 1869, with intention of teaching girls, particularly
his daughters.
Although his read of the
sphere of sweat for girls was rather slender and also the introductory theme of
the novel was homiletic, it was a good vault forward. Hali, conjointly educated
in the ancient system and a scholar of Arabic and Persian, wrote quite various
poems celebrating girls and their immolations, informing about the adversities
girls had to travel through in key society.
But Moulvi Mumtaz Ali was
unnumbered manner ahead, realistic manner before his times. Tehzeeb-e-Niswan
revealed papers not solely on housework or a way to point out good youngsters
but conjointly inspired inventive notations by girls. Informing girls of their
legal rights as permissible by Islam was another exceptional side of the
magazine. Mumtaz Ali launched another Urdu journal for girls and named it
Musheer-e-Madar (Mother’s counsel) in 1905. His book Huqooq-e-Nissan (1898)
explains a lady’s legal rights in Islam. His magazine for kids Phool tested to
be a corner in the history of Urdu’s juvenile literature.
Moulvi Syed Mumtaz Ali
was born in 1860 in Deoband, UP, a British Asian nation. He was educated at
Deoband madrassah and, afterwards on, at Lahore’s government world since his
father, Zulfiqar Ali, was in government service and was transferred to Punjab.
In those days, Christian missionaries and Muslim students went to dialogue
about spiritual problems on Lahore’s roads and alleys. Soon, Arya Samaj, a
Hindu reformist movement, joined the fray.
Mumtaz Ali was keenly
curious about these debates and felt Muslim students demanded deep data. thus
he began reading “munazraati”( concerning spiritual debates) literature.
somebody asked him to put in writing to Sir Syed Ahmed Khan for contemporary
spiritual data. immature Mumtaz wrote to the nice man.
Despite his very busy
schedule, Sir Syed asked him to return over and bat the problems that were
bothering him. Mumtaz Ali was happy once exchanged with Sir Syed. Meanwhile,
Mumtaz Ali landed employment as a translator at metropolis judicature. All this
— Deoband, fashionable education, spiritual debates, legal matters, and Sir
Syed’s modern and reformist program — formed his worldview and contend a
significant half in his course of action within the future. tho' Mumtaz Ali
couldn't complete his education and will not pass his examinations conjointly
from Deoband or his BA examinations he paved the manner for girls’ education
further as journalism feeding merely to women. Through his publisher in the
metropolis, named Dar- ul- Isha’at Punjab, he revealed unnumbered books valued
for their content and language.
Moulvi Syed Mumtaz Ali
passed away in Lahore on June 15, 1935.