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{{Infobox religious biography<br />
|religion = Islam<br />
|birth_date = 22 May 1878<br />
|birth_place = [[Shahpur, Punjab]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1908|11|02|1878|05|22}}<br />
|death_place = [[Shimla]], [[British India]]<br />
|honorific_prefix = Sayyidah<br />
|name = Muhammadi Begum<br />
|image = Muhammadi Begum.jpg<br />
|notable_works = ''[[Tehzeeb-e-Niswan (magazine)|Tehzeeb-e-Niswan]]''<br />
|children = [[Imtiaz Ali Taj]] (son)<br />
|relatives = [[Naeem Tahir]] (grandson), [[Faran Tahir]] (great-grandson)<br />
|spouse = [[Sayyid Mumtaz Ali]]<br />
|denomination = [[Sunni Islam]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Muhammadi Begum''' (also known as '''Sayyidah Muhammadi Begum''') (22 May 1878 – 2 November 1908) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, [[Urdu language|Urdu]] writer and an advocate of women education. She co-founded the Islamic weekly magazine ''[[Tehzeeb-e-Niswan]]'', and was its founding editor. She is known as the first woman who edited an Urdu magazine. She was the wife of [[Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Deobandi]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Muhammadi Begum was born on 22 May 1878 in [[Shahpur, Punjab]].<ref name="newspk" /> She memorized [[Quran]] and learned [[Urdu language]] with her brothers, and learned to write letters to remain in touch with her sister after she got married in 1886.<ref name="sumit">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GEPYbuzOwcQC&q=mumtaz+ali+deobandi&pg=PA360 |access-date=20 August 2020|title=Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader|isbn=9780253352699|last1=Sarkar|first1=Sumit|last2=Sarkar|first2=Tanika|year=2008|page = 363}}</ref><br />
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In 1897, she married [[Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Deobandi]], an Islamic scholar and an alumnus of [[Darul Uloom Deoband]].<ref name="sahafat">{{cite book |author1=Nayab Hasan Qasmi |title=Darul Uloom Deoband Ka Sahafati ManzarNama |publisher=Idara Tehqeeq-e-Islami, [[Deoband]] |pages=147–151 |chapter = Mawlana Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Deobandi}}</ref><ref name="dawn">{{cite news |author1=Rauf Parekh |title=Muhammadi Begum and Tehzeeb-e-Niswan |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1216870 |access-date=22 August 2020 |work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |date=2 November 2015}}</ref> On 1 July 1898, the couple started a weekly magazine for women called ''[[Tehzeeb-e-Niswan]]'', which is regarded as one of the pioneering works on women rights in Islam.<ref name="mansoor">{{cite journal |jstor = 1388032|title = Religion and Women: Islamic Modernism versus Fundamentalism|last1 = Moaddel|first1 = Mansoor|journal = Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|year = 1998|volume = 37|issue = 1|page = 116|doi = 10.2307/1388032}}</ref> She edited the magazine until her death in 1908.<ref name="thenews">{{cite web |author1=Tahir Kamran |authorlink1=Tahir Kamran |title=Re-imagining of Muslim Women - II |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/565865-re-imagining-muslim-women-ii |website=thenews.com.pk |publisher=[[The News International]] |access-date=22 August 2020 |date=8 July 2018}}</ref> Muhammadi Begum is reportedly seen as the first woman who ever edited an Urdu magazine. <ref name="dawn" /><br />
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Aged 30, Muhammadi Begum died at [[Shimla]] on 2 November 1908. <ref name="dawn" /><br />
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==Literary works==<br />
Books of Muhammadi Begum include:<ref name="newspk">{{cite news |author1=Sarwat Ali |title=Stuff legends are made of |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/655864-stuff-legends-are-made-of |access-date=22 August 2020 |work=[[The News International]] |date=10 May 2020}}</ref><br />
* ''Aaj Kal''<br />
* ''Safia Begum''<br />
* ''Shareef Beti''<br />
* ''Chandan Haar''<br />
* ''Aadab e Mulaqaat''<br />
* ''Rafeeqe Aroos''<br />
* ''Khaanadari''<br />
* ''Sughar Beti''<br />
==Legacy==<br />
Muhammadi Begum's grandson [[Naeem Tahir]] compiled ''Sayyidah Muhammadi Begum awr Unka Khandan'' ({{Translation|Sayyidah Muhammadi Begum and her family}}).<ref name="tahir">{{cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1433254 |title= A PIONEERING WOMAN OF LETTERS |work = [[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |date = 16 September 2018 |author = [[Asif Farrukhi]] |access-date=22 August 2020}}</ref><br />
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