Abdelaziz Thâalbi
Abdelaziz Thâalbi | |
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Born | |
Died | October 1, 1944 Tunis[2] | (aged 68)
Other names | ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Thaʿalibī |
Abdelaziz Thâalbi (عبد العزيز الثعالبي, September 5, 1876 – October 1, 1944) was a Tunisian politician. He was one of the founding members of the Destour party.[3]
Early life
Abdelaziz Thâalbi's father was a
Returning to Tunis in 1901,
In 1905 Thâalbi published L'esprit libéral du Coran ("the liberal spirit of the Quran") with César Benattar (who had been his defense lawyer) and el-Hadi Sebai. It was pro-French, in contrast with Sabil al-Rashid and his later writings. It claimed that
through a literal, rational, scientific, liberal, and faithful interpretation of the Quran and hadiths the Muslim people will recover their past intellectual greatness, and with the civilizing influence of the French, the descendants of those that proclaimed the principles of the French Revolution, Muslims minds, freed at last of all superstitions and prejudices, will be able to one day contribute, in collaboration with their Protectors, to the global civilization.[4]
Thâalbi made connections with the
Destour
After
In 1922, France proposed minor reforms in response to Destour pressure, but Thâalbi and the Destour rejected them. After the death of the ruler Muhammad V an-Nasir and the growing intolerance of the French authorities, Thâalbi left the country.[3]
Later years
After spending time in exile in Egypt, Iraq, and India, Thâalbi returned to Tunisia in 1937. By then the Destour had fallen into minority and had been eclipsed by the Neo Destour, who rejected Thâalbi's traditional values. He attempted to revive Destour with little success, and died in 1944.[3]
References
- ^ حجازي, ياسر. الثعالبي.. داعية الإصلاح والمقاومة (in Arabic). IslamOnline. Archived from the original on September 22, 2008. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
- ^ Ben Hamida, Abdesslem (1989). Le syndicalisme tunisien de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale à l'autonomie interne. Tunis: Université de Tunis. p. 54.
- ^ a b c d e f Perkins, Kenneth J. (2004). "Thaalbi, Abd Al-Aziz [1874–1944]". In Mattar, Philip (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). New York: Macmillan Reference USA. p. 2182.
- ^ ISBN 9004056874.
- ^ [4] claims 1901,[3] claims 1902
External links
- Media related to Abdelaziz Thaalbi at Wikimedia Commons
- "Biography of Abdelaziz Thâalbi, from Islam Online" (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2008-09-22. Retrieved 2012-07-21.