Ibn Abī l-Ḍiyāf

by Oualdi, M'hamed

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Aḥmad Ibn Abī l-Ḍiyāf (1802–74) was, from 1827 to 1867, the personal secretary to the Ḥusaynid governors who had ruled the Ottoman province of Tunis since 1117/1705. He wrote an important chronicle in Arabic about the history of Tunisia and played a major role in 1861 in the promulgation of the first national constitution in a Muslim country. His family was part of the Awlād ʿŪn tribe in the Silyāna, southwest of Tunis. Ḍiyāf’s father moved to Tunis and became, by the end of the twelfth/

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Aḥmad Ibn Abī l-Ḍiyāf (1802–74) was, from 1827 to 1867, the personal secretary to the Ḥusaynid governors who had ruled the Ottoman province of Tunis since 1117/1705. He wrote an important chronicle in Arabic about the history of Tunisia and played a major role in 1861 in the promulgation of the first national constitution in a Muslim country. His family was part of the Awlād ʿŪn tribe in the Silyāna, southwest of Tunis. Ḍiyāf’s father moved to Tunis and became, by the end of the twelfth/

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2346

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eng Islam

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Oualdi, M'hamed

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