Tahar Haddad

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Tahar Haddad


Born
in Tunis , Tunisia
January 01, 1899

Died
December 07, 1935


Tahar Haddad (Arabic: الطاهر الحداد‎; 1899-7 December 1935) was a Tunisian author, scholar and reformer.

Haddad, was born in Tunis to a family of shopkeepers and attended the Great Mosque of Zitounia from 1911 until his graduation in 1920. He became a notary; he left this career to become a member of the Al-Destour, a political party. He left the party when unsatisfied with the leadership.[1]

Haddad was a feminist. In the 1930 book Our Women in the Shari 'a and Society he advocated for expanded rights for women and said that the interpretations of Islam at the time inhibited women.[2]

Haddad was never exiled at the moment that the French colonial government sent his friend and co-founder of the CGTT labor union into exile. For a short period o
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