Mohammed Aziz Bouattour

محمد العزيز بوعتور

1825 CE · 1240 AH† – 4 February 1907 CE · 1324 AH †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Tunis

Tunisian statesman (1825–1907), educated at the Zaytuna, who rose through the state chancellery and the finance administration to become Minister of the Pen, and was appointed grand vizier in 1882, holding the post until his death — the first ethnic Tunisian to head the government, serving under the French protectorate alongside Resident General Paul Cambon. He was the maternal grandfather of the scholar Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur.