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  "ar": "الطاهر الحداد",
  "en": "Tahar Haddad",
  "ur": "طاہر حداد"
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  "ar": "مؤلف ونقابي ومصلح تونسي (1899–1935)؛ درس الشريعة بجامع الزيتونة وتخرج 1920، وكان من مؤسسي الحركة النقابية التونسية مع محمد علي الحامي، واشتهر بكتابه «امرأتنا في الشريعة والمجتمع» (1930) الداعي إلى تعليم المرأة وإصلاح أحوالها، فتعرض لحملة تكفير وتشهير من المؤسسة المحافظة ونُبذ حتى وفاته.",
  "en": "Tunisian author, trade unionist and reformer (1899–1935). He studied Islamic law at the Zitouna and graduated in 1920, co-founded the Tunisian labour movement with Mohamed Ali El Hammi, and became known above all for Our Women in the Shari'a and Society (1930), which argued for women's education and legal reform; the conservative establishment answered with takfir fatwas and a smear campaign, and he died ostracised.",
  "ur": "تونسی مصنف، مزدور رہنما اور مصلح (1899–1935)؛ جامع زیتونہ سے 1920 میں فارغ التحصیل ہوئے، محمد علی الحامی کے ساتھ تونسی مزدور تحریک کے بانیوں میں سے تھے، اور اپنی کتاب «امرأتنا فی الشریعہ والمجتمع» (1930) سے مشہور ہوئے جس میں خواتین کی تعلیم اور قانونی اصلاح کی وکالت کی گئی؛ قدامت پسند حلقوں نے ان کے خلاف تکفیر اور بہتان کی مہم چلائی اور وہ گوشہ نشینی میں وفات پا گئے۔"
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   "note": "Born in Tunis; the French article notes that some sources wrongly give El Hamma in the Gabès region, where his family originated.",
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   "edtf": "1935-12-07",
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   "note": "The date, 7 December 1935, is agreed by all three articles. The place of death is not established: the English and French texts say he left Tunisia and died in exile, the French article's own categories mark the place of death unknown, and the Arabic article gives no place; the Hijri year is tabular-derived (the Arabic article's lead gives his lifespan as 1317–1353 AH).",
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    "value": "Tahar Haddad",
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   "note": "The date, 7 December 1935, is agreed by all three articles. The place of death is not established: the English and French texts say he left Tunisia and died in exile, the French article's own categories mark the place of death unknown, and the Arabic article gives no place; the Hijri year is tabular-derived (the Arabic article's lead gives his lifespan as 1317–1353 AH).",
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    "value": "unknown",
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    "note": "No source names a school for him personally, and his own religious position is presented in two opposed ways, both preserved here. The English and French articles present his 1930 book as an argument made from within Islam: a modernist reading of the Qur'an, a call to renewed ijtihad, and proposals drawn, in the French article's account, from what accords with the shari'a; the English article, citing Qantara, calls him an Islamic scholar 'loyal to the Koran'. Against that stand his opponents' verdicts: the same article records that fatwas from the Zitouna establishment declared him a heretic and even an apostate. Those fatwas are judgements by opponents, not a description of his own unbelief, and no two sources describe Haddad himself as having left Islam, so the bar for any other value is not met either. Studying at the Zitouna is not a personal attestation. Under the doubt rule no value is recorded.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الطاهر الحداد (1899–1935) مؤلف ونقابي وباحث ومصلح تونسي، تخرج في جامع الزيتونة سنة 1920، وكان من قادة الحركة النقابية التونسية الناشئة، وعُرف قبل كل شيء رائدًا من رواد الدفاع عن حقوق المرأة التونسية.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد الحداد بتونس العاصمة في 4 ديسمبر 1899 في أسرة متواضعة أصلها من الحامة بالجنوب — وبعض المصادر تخطئ فتجعل الحامة نفسها مسقط رأسه — فتعلّم في مدرسة تقليدية ست سنوات ثم التحق بجامع الزيتونة سنة 1911 وتخرج فيه سنة 1920 بعد دراسة الشريعة.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar} اشتغل موثّقًا (عدل إشهاد) ثم هجر المهنة.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحركة النقابية",
     "markdown": "انضم الحداد إلى الحزب الحر الدستوري عند تأسيسه وتولى فيه الدعاية، لكنه سرعان ما غادره غير راضٍ عن قيادته وموقفه من الحركة العمالية.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en} وأسس مع محمد علي الحامي جمعية التعاون الاقتصادي في يونيو 1924 وشارك في قيام جامعة عموم العملة التونسية في ديسمبر من السنة نفسها.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar} وفي سنة 1927 أصدر كتابه «العمال التونسيون وظهور الحركة النقابية» برنامجًا لتحسين أحوال العمال.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "«امرأتنا في الشريعة والمجتمع»",
     "markdown": "في كتابه الأشهر، الصادر سنة 1930، دعا الحداد مستندًا إلى نصوص القرآن إلى تحرير المرأة التونسية: حمايتها من الطلاق التعسفي، وحقها في رفض تعدد الزوجات واختيار زوجها، وتعليمها، بل والمساواة في الميراث.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} وتصف المقالة الفرنسية منهجه بأنه قراءة تحديثية للقرآن ودعوة إلى إحياء الاجتهاد تستند إلى ما يوافق الشريعة، بينما تقدّمه المقالة الإنجليزية نقلًا عن موقع قنطرة «باحثًا إسلاميًا وفيًّا للقرآن».{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en} وقد أثار الكتاب ضجة كبرى: فشنّت مؤسسة الزيتونة المحافظة ودستوريون محافظون حملة تشهير ضده، وكتب محمد صالح بن مراد ردًّا لاذعًا، وصدرت فتاوى تكفّره وتعدّه مرتدًا — وهي أحكام خصومه المسجلة هنا بوصفها أحكامهم لا حكم المتحف.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سنواته الأخيرة ووفاته",
     "markdown": "نُبذ الحداد وشُتم في الشوارع ومُنع من متابعة دراسة الحقوق ومن الزواج، فاعتزل الحياة العامة.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} وتوفي في 7 ديسمبر 1935؛ تقول المقالات الإنجليزية والفرنسية إنه مات في المنفى بعد مغادرته تونس، بينما تجعل تصنيفات المقالة الفرنسية نفسها مكان وفاته غير معروف وتضع دفنه في مقبرة الجلاز بتونس.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أثره",
     "markdown": "أُعيد الاعتبار إلى الحداد بعد سنوات من وفاته، وأثّرت أفكاره في واضعي مجلة الأحوال الشخصية التونسية سنة 1956، الإصلاح الأبرز لحبيب بورقيبة، التي منعت تعدد الزوجات والطلاق التعسفي وعلمنت قانون الأسرة.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} ورُقّي بعد وفاته إلى رتبة ضابط أكبر لوسام الجمهورية في الذكرى الثمانين لوفاته.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- ويكيبيديا العربية، «الطاهر الحداد».{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar}\n- ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية، \"Tahar Haddad\".{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}\n- ويكيبيديا الفرنسية، \"Tahar Haddad\".{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}\n- ويكيداتا، Q969533.{cite:wikidata-tahar-haddad}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Tahar Haddad (1899–1935) was a Tunisian author, trade unionist, scholar and reformer, a graduate of the Zitouna who became a leading figure of the Tunisian labour movement and, above all, a pioneer of Tunisian feminism.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Education",
     "markdown": "Born in Tunis on 4 December 1899 into a modest family originally from El Hamma in the south — some sources wrongly give El Hamma itself as his birthplace — Haddad was educated at a traditional school for six years before entering the Zitouna in 1911; he graduated in 1920, having studied Islamic law.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en} He became a notary but abandoned the career.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The labour movement",
     "markdown": "Haddad joined the Destour party at its foundation and took charge of its propaganda, but soon left, dissatisfied with its leadership and its attitude to the labour movement.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en} With Mohamed Ali El Hammi he founded the Association of Economic Cooperation in June 1924 and helped set up the Confédération générale des travailleurs tunisiens (CGTT) that December.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} In 1927 he published Tunisian Workers and the Emergence of the Labour Movement, a programme for improving workers' conditions.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Our Women in the Shari'a and Society",
     "markdown": "His best-known book, published in 1930, argued from citations of the Qur'an for the emancipation of Tunisian women: protection against repudiation, the right to refuse polygamy and to choose a husband, education, and even equality in inheritance shares.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} The French article describes his method as a modernist reading of the Qur'an and a call to return to ijtihad, drawing on what accords with the shari'a; the English article, citing Qantara, presents him as an Islamic scholar \"loyal to the Koran\".{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en} The book caused an uproar: the Zitouna establishment and Destour conservatives ran a smear campaign against him, Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad wrote a scathing rebuttal, and fatwas were issued declaring him a heretic, some going as far as declaring him an apostate — verdicts recorded here as his opponents' judgements, not as the museum's.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Final years and death",
     "markdown": "Haddad was shunned, insulted in the streets, barred from continuing his law studies and from marrying, and withdrew from public life.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} He died on 7 December 1935; the English and French texts say he died in exile after leaving Tunisia, while the French article's own categories mark his place of death unknown and place his burial at the Djellaz cemetery in Tunis.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Legacy",
     "markdown": "A few years after his death Haddad was rehabilitated. His ideas influenced the drafters of Tunisia's Code of Personal Status of 1956, the signature reform of Habib Bourguiba, which banned polygamy and repudiation and secularised family law.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} He was posthumously made a Grand Officer of the Order of the Republic on the eightieth anniversary of his death.{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "References",
     "markdown": "- English Wikipedia, \"Tahar Haddad\".{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}\n- Arabic Wikipedia, \"الطاهر الحداد\".{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar}\n- French Wikipedia, \"Tahar Haddad\".{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}\n- Wikidata, Q969533.{cite:wikidata-tahar-haddad}"
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    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "طاہر حداد (1899–1935) تونسی مصنف، مزدور رہنما اور مصلح تھے؛ جامع زیتونہ سے 1920 میں فارغ التحصیل ہوئے، محمد علی الحامی کے ساتھ تونسی مزدور تحریک کے بانیوں میں شامل ہوئے، اور اپنی کتاب «امرأتنا فی الشریعہ والمجتمع» (1930) سے شہرت پائی۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تعلیم اور مزدور تحریک",
     "markdown": "وہ 4 دسمبر 1899 کو تونس شہر میں پیدا ہوئے، 1911 میں جامع زیتونہ میں داخل ہوئے اور 1920 میں شرعی تعلیم مکمل کی۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} دستوری پارٹی سے الگ ہو کر انہوں نے الحامی کے ساتھ 1924 میں مزدوروں کی جنرل کنفیڈریشن قائم کی اور 1927 میں مزدور تحریک پر اپنی کتاب شائع کی۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "کتاب اور اس کا ردعمل",
     "markdown": "1930 کی کتاب میں انہوں نے قرآن کی نصوص سے استدلال کرتے ہوئے خواتین کی تعلیم، طلاق سے تحفظ، تعدد ازدواج سے انکار کے حق اور وراثت میں برابری کی وکالت کی۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} قدامت پسند زیتونی حلقوں نے ان کے خلاف مہم چلائی اور تکفیر و ارتداد کے فتوے جاری کیے — یہ ان کے مخالفین کے احکام تھے، جو یہاں انہی کی نسبت سے درج ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات اور میراث",
     "markdown": "وہ سماجی بائیکاٹ میں 7 دسمبر 1935 کو وفات پا گئے؛ انگریزی و فرانسیسی مضامین ان کی وفات جلاوطنی میں بتاتے ہیں جبکہ فرانسیسی مضمون کی درجہ بندی جائے وفات کو نامعلوم اور تدفین تونس کے جلاز قبرستان میں بتاتی ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr} ان کے افکار نے 1956 کے تونسی قانونِ احوال شخصيہ پر اثر ڈالا۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حوالہ جات",
     "markdown": "- انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Tahar Haddad\"۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-en}\n- عربی ویکیپیڈیا، «الطاهر الحداد»۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-ar}\n- فرانسیسی ویکیپیڈیا، \"Tahar Haddad\"۔{cite:wikipedia-tahar-haddad-fr}\n- وکی ڈیٹا، Q969533۔{cite:wikidata-tahar-haddad}"
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