1. Muhammadi Begum was a Sunni Muslim scholar, Urdu writer and an advocate of women education.
13 Facts About Muhammadi Begum
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Muhammadi Begum co-founded the Islamic weekly magazine Tehzeeb-e-Niswan, and was its founding editor.
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Muhammadi Begum is known as the first woman who edited an Urdu magazine.
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Muhammadi Begum was the wife of Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Deobandi.
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Muhammadi Begum was born on 22 May 1878 in Shahpur, Punjab.
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Muhammadi Begum learned Urdu and she became a Hafiz as she memorized the Quran.
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Muhammadi Begum learned to write letters to remain in touch with her elder sister after she got married in 1886.
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Muhammadi Begum learned Arabic and Persian from her new husband and was privately educated in English, Hindi and mathematics.
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Muhammadi Begum has been considered as India's first Muslim feminist woman and the first woman who ever edited an Urdu magazine.
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Muhammadi Begum authored thirty books which included Shareef Beti, which dealt with the hazards of arranged marriages of children which often lead to enforced marriages.
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Aged 30, Muhammadi Begum died at Shimla on 2 November 1908.
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Muhammadi Begum's son was Imtiaz Ali Taj who was born in 1900.
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Muhammadi Begum nicknamed him "Mera Taj" and in time he would become a leading playwright and adopt her pet name for him, "Taj", as part of his own name.