Tahar Haddad was a Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

n author, scholar and reformer.

Haddad, was born in Tunis

Tunis

Tunis is the capital of both the Tunisian Republic and the Tunis Governorate. It is Tunisia's largest city, with a population of 728,453 as of 2004; the greater metropolitan area holds some 2,412,500 inhabitants....

 to a family of shopkeepers and attended the Great Mosque of Zitounia

University of Ez-Zitouna

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 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.

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.

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 of time, he became the leader of the trade union movement. Haddad died of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

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