Tahar Haddad

Tahar Haddad ( born December 4, 1899 in Tunis, † December 7, 1935; Arabic: الطاهر الحداد ) was a Tunisian writer, scholar and reformer.

Life

Haddad was born in Tunis, the son of one coming from El Hamma family of merchants. He first visited an Islamic primary school ( Kouttab ) and then studied from 1911 until his graduation with a high school certificate ( Tatwi ) as a notary in 1920, Islamic Studies and Islamic Law ( Shari'a ) at a madrasa, the University of Great Ez- Zitouna mosque. However, the profession of notary, he exercised little and was a member of the party founded in 1920, Al- Destour. He headed the public relations of the entering for an independent Tunisia party. However, the activities of the party leadership seemed not sufficient and as he stepped out again.

He then worked as a journalist and writer, at the same time he became involved in the labor movement. Unlike Mohamed Ali El Hammi, his friend and co-founder in 1925 briefly existing Tunisian labor movement CGTT, Haddad was not forced by the French colonial administration to leave the country and took over for a short time the chair of the union. In 1927 he published the Tunisian trade union movement a first book entitled Tunisian Workers and the Union Movement. The following year he took up the study of law in Tunis.

Haddad campaigned for women's rights. In his 1930 editorial published on October 5, Our Women in the Shari 'a and Society (about Our women in Islamic law and society), he supported expanded rights for women and stated that its interpretation of the term Islam, women hinders. However, his is standing demands prevented his admission to graduation and earned him hostility in the press and in public one.

Haddad died of tuberculosis.

Importance

Haddad joined, among others, for a high degree of equality between men and women in civil law, called for a regular and equal education for women as for men, an equal property and inheritance for women and a civil marriage and divorce, which replace the Islamic divorce law should. The polygamy and the marriage of girls against their will, he refused as well as the full-body veiling of women, as for his knowledge after no corresponding rules in the Koran were found.

His demands were taken up by women who participated in demonstrations of Al- Destour party for independence of the country and this half also fell into custody. After the Second World War, made ​​Habib Bourguiba, the leader of the successor party to Neo - Destour in which many of these women were organized, Haddad's own and they were transferred receivables mainly to a large extent in the laws adopted after the country's independence. So polygamy in Tunisia, for example, banned the wearing of the niqab and in public spaces is not officially allowed.

In Tunisia several streets and schools were named after Tahar Haddad.

The Boeing 737-600 Tunisair with the identifier of the TS- IOR was also named after him in 2001.

Writings

• Les travailleurs tunisiens et l' avènement du mouvement syndical / Tunisian Workers and the Union Movement, 1927
• Imraatouna fi achari'a walmojtamaa ( Notre femme dans de la chari'a et dans la socité / Our Women in the Shari 'a and Society ), 1930
• Khaouater ( reflection / Thoughts ), Maison du Livre Arabe / Arab Book Publishing House, 1975 ( posthumously printed )