Sayyid Mumtaz Ali

Mawlānā
Sayyid Mumtaz Ali
Mawlānā Sayyid Mumtaz Ali
Title	Shams al-Ulama
Personal
Born	27 September 1860; Deoband, British India
Died	15 June 1935 (aged 74); Lahore, British India
Religion	Islam
Spouse	Muhammadi Begum
Children	Imtiaz Ali Taj (son)
Denomination	Sunni Islam
Movement	Deobandi
Notable work(s)	Tehzeeb-e-Niswan, Huquq-e-Niswan, Tafṣīl al-bayān fī maqāṣid al-Qurʼān
Alma mater	Darul Uloom Deoband
Teachers	Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi and Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi
Relatives	Yasmeen Tahir (granddaughter) ; Naeem Tahir (grandson) ; Faran Tahir (great-grandson)
Organization
Founder of	Rifah-e-Aam Press

Sayyid Mumtaz Ali Deobandi (27 September 1860 – 15 June 1935) was an Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and an advocate of women rights in the late nineteenth century. He was an alumnus of Darul Uloom Deoband. His book Huquq-e-Niswan and the journal Tehzeeb-e-Niswan that he started with his wife Muhammadi Begum are said to be pioneering works on women rights.^[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.

[mansoor-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.

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