Tahar Sfar (rear RTL الطاهرصفر), born in 1903 with Mahdia and dead the August 9th 1942, is a politician Tunisia N.

Formation

It carries out brilliant secondary studies with the Collège Sadiki then with the Lycée Carnot of Tunis. After its baccalaureat, it is requested to direct and reform the studies of the school El Arfania of Tunis. It joined Paris in October 1925 for studies of Droit, letters and Political science. It is found with comrades of Sadiki, such Habib Bourguiba, Mahmoud Materi, Bahri Guiga and Sadok Boussoffara. Among his/her French comrades with the Faculty of Law appears in good place the future President of the Council Edgar Faure. Indeed, this one reports in the volume two of its memories that during the first official maintenance that it has with the leader of the Néo-Destour Habib Bourguiba, in April 1955 with Matignon, Faure starts with him to recall its memories of student to Paris and precise: “I spoke to him about his compatriot Tahar Sfar who collected the prices in the contests of end of the year when I collected honourable certificates of merit…” Tahar Sfar takes part in addition, towards the end of the year 1927 with a group of fellow students Tunisian, Algérie NS and Morocco ains, with the creation of the Association of the Moslem students of the Maghreb from which he becomes the first vice-president.

Nationalist militant

He returns to Tunis in 1928 to exert parallel to the trade of lawyer many activities: political course of economy with the Khaldounia and articles in newspapers in Arab and French, such the Voice of the Tunisian and the Tunisian Action . He militates for the independence of Tunisia, within the Destour then takes part in the creation of the Néo-Destour to Ksar Hellal, a city of the the Tunisian Sahel, with his fellow students of which Bourguiba, Materi and Guiga.

The new party wants to be modernistic in its step, its methods and its organization and, at the same time, teacher and mobilizing of the popular masses for better awakening of the need for releasing the country of the Colonialisme. Sfar is a large friend of Bourguiba with which it likes to discuss and philosophize, the Philosophie being its passion. It has a great admiration for the mahatma Gandhi and, like, recommends the non-violent fight to him. The militants of Néo-Destour often designate it as the philosopher of the party.

Passages in prison

In January 1935, Sfar is moved away and assigned with residence with Zarzis, in the Tunisian South, at the same time as Guiga and Salah Ben Youssef. These persons in charge of Néo-Destour thus join their distant comrades since September 1934. Tahar Sfar benefits from its insulation to plunge themselves in various studies (legal and literary) and to write a kind of newspaper which is published in 1960, after its death, under the title of Journal of one exiled with a foreword of the father André Demeerseman, director of the review Ibla in Tunis. Demeerseman had attended some courses given by Tahar Sfar on the political economy to Khaldounia to the beginning of the Années 1930.

After the arrival of new the Resident general of France in Tunisia, Armand Guillon, it is released in 1936 at the same time as all the members of the political office of Néo-Destour. The dialog of Guillon with the Tunisian nationalists for reforms proves to be transitory. Sfar is found in prison after the serious attack of April 1938, although it belongs to what is called at the time moderate party. It leaves prison towards the end 1939 with a defective health and will die on August 9th, 1942. It has time, before dying, to publish in the French-speaking feminist review Leïla of the month of December 1939 an article denouncing with strength the mode of Adolf Hitler and clarifying the danger which it represents for the Humanité. This article had as a title the racist designs of Hitler .

Thought

Very as a militant for the release of his country, Tahar Sfar, by the feather, also militates for a real co-operation between the Orient and the Occident: “Peace in the future, the progress of very whole humanity depends on this union, of this close cooperation between the East and the Occident, which instead of turning the back, to be unaware of itself, must on the contrary, to support itself, to lend themselves support mutually and to cooperate for raising of the fate of humanity” writes it in the years 1930.

In an article published in the review Leïla in January 1941 under the title “What a civilization? ”, and after having developed its own definition of civilization, he concludes while declaring: Consequently, one cannot say of a Civilization, especially of a great civilization, at a given moment of the human history, which it is good or bad in oneself, that it produces of goods and happy results or that it involves with its continuation of the harmful effects for humanity, that it gets the Bonheur or the misfortune of the individuals; the concepts of well and Mal must be generally excluded: a civilization, it is a whole with its characteristics intrinsic and specific, with its goods and its bad sides, with what it comprises in fact of advantages and inconvéniants, with, all in all, all the inseparable elements of which it is made up '' One cannot deny the existence of a continuous Progrès within humanity; when the things top are observed and as the examination of the details is drawn aside, it is easy to recognize through the Histoire, the existence of a line of evolution which one can determine and follow the direction and the direction, as well in the material field as in the moral field. But this progress to be real is not less than one slowness almost despairing!

Family

Tahar Sfar is the son of Mustapha Sfar which exerted the functions of notary with Mahdia. It Marie in 1929 and has three children: two girls and a boy, Rachid Sfar, which will occupy of high positions in the Tunisian government. It is thus appointed Prime Minister by the president Bourguiba in July 1986 to leave Tunisia a financial serious attack.

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