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Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour | |
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محمد الفاضل بن عاشور | |
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| Born | 1909 (age 115–116) La Marsa, Tunisia |
| Died | 1970 (age 54–55) |
| Nationality | Tunisian |
| Occupation(s) | writer, trade unionist, intellectual |
| Father | Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur |
| Relatives | Yadh Ben Achour (son) Sana Ben Achour (daughter) |
Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour (Arabic:محمد الفاضل بن عاشور; October 16, 1909 – April 20, 1970) was aTunisiantheologian, writer,trade unionist, intellectual and patriot born inLa Marsa.
Born October 16, 1909, in a family of Scholars, Magistrates and High Officials of the upper middle class of Tunisia, he began to learn theQuran andArabic grammar from the age of three years. He also learnsFrench language at the age of nine. He made his entry in 1922 inUniversity of Ez-Zitouna where he is directly enrolled in second year. In 1928, he obtained the first diploma of Zitounian high school leaving, then called tatwi. In 1931, he enrolled at the Faculty of Letters of Algiers as a free auditor. He then rapidly gravitated to the various ranks of the Zitounian teachers: he succeeded in 1932 in the assistance of second-level teachers and, in 1935, in first-degree teachers at theUniversity of Ez-Zitouna.[1]
A few years later, he became director of theKhaldounia, General manager of the Institute of Islamic Research, annexed to Khaldounia, then the firstDean of the Faculty of Religious Sciences of Tunis and finally member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo and of theArab Academy of Damascus.[2]
As the GrandMufti of theTunisian Republic, he was one of the religious who defended the provisions of theCode of Personal Status (CPS) in Tunisia,[3][4] as they represent possible interpretations ofIslam.[5] He described the CPS as "a necessity of modern times [...] but always in accordance with the foundational texts of Islam."[6]
Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour married Sabiha Djaït, the daughter of SheikhMohamed Abdelaziz Djaït, in 1938. The couple had six children: two sons, Yadh and Rafâa, and four daughters: Hela (a philosophy professor), Raoudha, Rabaâ (an academic), and Sana (an academic and jurist).[7]
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