Tahar al-Haddad

Tahar Haddad (; 1899 – December 1935) was a Tunisian author, trade unionist, socialist, scholar and reformer.

Haddad was born in Tunisia and studied Islamic law at the University of Ez-Zitouna from 1911 until his graduation in 1920. He became a notary, and he abandoned his career to join Destour, which was the first major political party spearheading the Tunisian national movement. In the following years, he became a prominent member in the burgeoning Tunisian labor movement, and he quickly became a leading spokesperson for the movement. He left the Destour party when he became dissatisfied with the leadership, particularly the party's negative attitude towards the labor movement.

Haddad was a key figure in the early Tunisian labor movement, which had emerged as a reaction to the French labor movement's reluctance to defend the interests of indigenous Tunisian workers and was active for over a decade. However, Haddad would later be known first and foremost as a pioneering Tunisian feminist. even though his work was based on a questionnaire sent to senior teachers of the prestigious University of Ez-Zitouna. A major Zitouna scholar, Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad, wrote a scathing response to Haddad's book, though it was later revealed that he had not even read it.