Who among the following reinterpreted verses from Quran to argue for women’s…

In late-19th and early-20th century India, reformers who championed women's education worked from two broad strategies: some reformers stayed within religious tradition and reinterpreted existing scripture to show that faith itself sanctioned women's education, using this reading to counter conservative clerical objections; others worked outside scripture, building new institutions such as schools, or writing literary and social critiques of prevailing gender norms.

Mumtaz Ali took the first path. He engaged directly with the Quran and reinterpreted its verses to argue that Islam supported, rather than opposed, women's education, using this scriptural reading to push back against orthodox clerical resistance to schooling girls.

The other reformers named in the options are remembered for different contributions to this period, not for this specific scriptural-reinterpretation approach:

• Begum Anis Qidwai is remembered chiefly for post-Partition refugee relief and rehabilitation work, not for reinterpreting Quranic verses on education.

• Hajara Beebi Ismail's contributions are tied to community and social work of the period, not to this scriptural-reinterpretation argument for women's education.

• Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain advanced women's education mainly by founding girls' schools and through literary and social critique of purdah and gender inequality, not primarily by reinterpreting Quranic verses.

So the reformer who reinterpreted Quranic verses to argue for women's education is Mumtaz Ali.