El pensador tunecino Ṭāhar al-Ḥaddād (1899-1935): vida, obra y legado

Abstract

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to study the works of the Tunisian thinker Ṭāhar al-Ḥaddād (1899-1935) in order to analyze his thought, his ideology and his proposals, linking these elements with the socio-political and economic context of the colonial era in which he lived. Ṭāhar al-Ḥaddād is known as a nationalist, as well as a defender of the emancipation of women and the rights of workers. Throughout his life, he wrote two complete and one incomplete books, a collection of aphorisms, several newspaper articles and numerous poems, as well as a Qur’ānic commentary that remains unpublished. Of all his contributions, the first two that we have mentioned have been the ones that have received the most attention from the academic world, which began to rescue his legacy from the seventies onwards. In his lifetime, both works were highly controversial, drawing fierce criticism from the Dustūr party, the settlers, and Tunisia's conservative religious elite.