| Tehzeeb-e-Niswan | |
| Language: | Urdu |
| Category: | Women Magazine |
| Founder: | Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Muhammadi Begum |
| Previous Editor: | Muhammadi Begum Waheeda Begum Imtiaz Ali Taj Abdul Majeed Salik Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi |
| Publisher: | Sayyid Mumtaz Ali |
| Company: | Darul Isha'at, Lahore |
| Frequency: | Weekly |
| Firstdate: | 1 July 1898 |
| Finaldate: | 1949 |
| Country: | British India (1898-1947) Pakistan (1947-1949) |
| Based: | Lahore |
Tehzeeb-e-Niswan (Urdu: {{Nastaliq|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.
Named Tehzeeb-e-Niswan by Syed Ahmad Khan, this women rights magazine was started by Sayyid Mumtaz Ali along with his wife Muhammadi Begum in 1898.[2] Its first issue was published on 1 July 1898.[3] 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.[4] It was later edited by Mumtaz Ali's son Imtiaz Ali Taj, and scholarly figures including Abdul Majeed Salik and Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi 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."[5]
According to Gail Minault, Tehzeeb-e-Niswan had 60 or 70 subscribers after three or four months, and after four years it had 300 or 400 subscribers.[6] The magazine discontinued in 1949.
Commending Mumtaz Ali for Tehzeeb-e-Niswan, Pakistani historian Ghulam Rasool Mehr said that,