Mohamed Ennakhli

محمد النخلي

1869 CE · 1286 AH – 1924 CE · 1342 AH

Qayrawan → Tunis

Tunisian Zaytuna scholar and reformer (1869–1924), born at Kairouan, who taught at the Zaytuna for some thirty-five years and counted Mohamed Tahar Ben Achour and Abdelhamid Ben Badis among his students. A leading voice of the reform current inspired by Muhammad Abduh in Tunisia, he also taught at the Khaldounia, sat on the Sadiki College improvement council set up in 1906, and argued throughout his life for reconciling science and religion; the only work printed in his lifetime was a short treatise on the life of the Arabic language, while his many studies remained in manuscript.