Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Politician · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Colonial Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
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Life in time
History-writing and social thought
Place in the story
- OfficialTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi, a Tunisian and Ottoman statesman, born in the land of the Circassians in 1238 AH (1822 CE) and died in 1308 AH (1890 CE). 1
Public life
He presided over the Tunisian government, and wrote on political reform. 1
People and things also explored
Disputing the count of raids and sariyas· Orientalism· Stopping the genealogy at Ma'add· Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima· Abd al-Jabbar al-Jumurd· Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti· Abd al-Rahman Badawi· Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Khayr al-Din al-Tunisi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/khayr-al-din-al-tunisi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.