Thread by @Allama_Saquib

On this International Women's Day, I am sharing a few of the articles I have written on women. A thread 🧵👇

List of 8 Muslim women who broke the glass ceiling in a patriarchal society

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My article on Rashid-un-Nisa of Patna, the first woman novelist in Urdu who published Islah-un-Nisa in 1894

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My article on Sahir Ludhianvi's songs & idea of women's rights in those

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Rassundari Devi, the first Bengali woman to write an autobiography. This is an inspiring story of a woman who was self-taught to read and write

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My observation of women living around me, my mother, my wife and my sister in law. Festivals for women are different experience in comparison to men.

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When Muslim women demanded to end polygamy in 1920 through organising themselves

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In 1857, women also formed their own organisations to fight the English soldiers. Asghuri Begum of Muzaffarnagar was burnt alive for leading an armed struggle against the British.

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Do you know Muslim women got the right to divorce (Khula) after a fierce struggle? Read a brief story of the struggle which ended up in winning women this important right.

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Viranwali committed suicide after an English official raped her. Her suicide inspired several Indians to join revolutionary movement against the British rule.

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Story of an old Muslim Burqa clad woman who led armed men against the British in 1857. English considered her more courageous and intelligent than the most male commanders.

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Read about the struggles Hamida Salim faced in becoming first female economist from AMU, Aligarh. She is an aunt of @Javedakhtarjadu

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How Pathan women fought for the national independence in NWFP

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When Khwaja Ahmad Abbas wrote with a pseudonym of a girl to advocate women rights

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Sheikh Abdullah & Begum Waheed founded a Women's College at Aligarh in face of fierce opposition from the male leadership of AMU

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Bangladesh celebrated the women raped by Pakistan Army in 1971 as the War Heroines

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Begum Rokeya Sakhawat was one of the earliest Indian Muslim Women Rights activist.

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Amjadi Begum and her husband, Mohammad Ali Jauhar, were at the forefront of the freedom struggle during the Khilafat and Non-cooperation Movement

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Pioneer of female education in India, Fatima Sheikh founded a school along with Savitri Phule

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The attendance rate to school among Muslim girls is on a rise. An analysis of the data

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Nani Hakko was a Julaha woman from Panipat & holds a distinction for being the first Indian to weave her own Khadi shroud to get buried as part of Swadeshi Movement.
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Two US Soldiers raped & killed an Assamese girl in Jorhat. They didn't receive any punishment and more such cases were reported during the Second World War
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An inspiring story of Hajra Bibi Ismail, a freedom fighter from Andhra Pradesh

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I write about the Feminist Urdu poetry of Kishwar Naheed

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This 1954 Indian Movie about the sexual harassment faced by women at workplaces needs to be watched

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Why do we need more female judges?

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The idea of consent in the songs of Sahir Ludhianvi

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Begum Hijab Imtiaz Ali was the first Indian Muslim woman to become a pilot

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Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz led the fight to win voting rights for the Indian women

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Begum Mahboob Fatima was the First Muslim Woman to go to jail in Delhi during the Indian Freedom Struggle.

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How Indian Muslims were more receptive to the idea of sending girls to schools in general & co education school in particular in 1870.
Read on this #WomensDay
@aisha_naziya @adilhossain
@nirupamakotru @iamrana
@bysurbhigupta @shujaatQuadri
@rekha_bhardwaj
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A must read for those who think that Ulema really kept women backward. Mumtaz Ali, a Deoband passout, stood up against Sir Syed Ahmad Khan to fight for the right of women & argued through Islamic texts.
#WomensDay

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"For twenty-five years she taught young girls, a promise she made to her Allah as a young child. Muhammadi Begum was one of her disciples"
Story of a courageous self-taught woman
@aisha_naziya @NidaKirmani
@nirupamakotru @ZebrasAreKool

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jo ʿilm mardoñ ke liye samjhā gayā āb-e ḥayāt

ṭherā tumhāre ḥaq meñ vuh zahr-e halāhal sar-basar

How Altaf Hussain Hali campaigned for Women's College at Aligarh
@aisha_naziya @shujaatQuadri
@farinafazal @DanHusain
@RakhshandaJalil @iamrana
@irfaniyat
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Nawab Faizunnesa of Bengal got herself recognised as a Nawab on parity with male rulers instead of Begum, a title used for wives of Nawabs.

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