Mustapha Kaak
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Mustapha Kaak | |
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 Portrait of Mustapha Kaak. | |
| Grand Vizier of Tunis | |
| In office July 21, 1947 – August 17, 1950 | |
| Monarch | Lamine Bey |
| Preceded by | Slaheddine Baccouche |
| Succeeded by | M'hamed Chenik |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 17, 1893 Tunis (French protectorate of Tunisia) |
| Died | July 26, 1984 Tunis (Tunisia) |
| Political party | Independent |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Mustapha Kaak (17 April 1893 in Tunis - 26 July 1984 in Tunis) was a lawyer, scholar, and politician from Tunisia.
Biography
[edit]He presided over the Association of Former Students of the Sadiki College,[1] the musical association of La Rachidia, and Espérance sportive de Tunis from 1926 to 1930.
At the initiative of the French General Resident Jean Mons, who sought to give him extra legitimacy, a decree dated July 12, 1947, established the admission of Tunisian lawyers to the bar of Tunis and the bar council; Kaak was elected on July 18 as the head of the bar; this was a unique case of a Muslim being elected as head of the bar under the French protectorate of Tunisia.[2] However, under pressure from the Neo-Destour, he resigned in October of the same year[2].
Appointed grand vizier by Lamine Bey shortly after his election on July 19, he asked Salah Ben Youssef, the secretary-general of the Neo-Destour, to join his government, but he refused. [citation needed] Kaak is also credited with initiating the works of the Majallah, which foreshadowed the Personal Status Code and whose author was his minister of justice, Mohamed Abdelaziz Djaït.[3] As the first grand vizier to reside permanently at the new headquarters of the Tunisian government, Dar El Bey, he left his position on August 16, 1950.
He is often considered one of the Tunisian figures, including Slaheddine Baccouche, Abdelkader Belkhodja, and Hédi Raïs, who opposed the policies of the Tunisian National Movement dominated by Neo-Destour and Habib Bourguiba and Ben Youssef. This party considered Kaak's policy too conciliatory towards the colonial power. Kaak aimed for appeasement, trying to avoid confrontation between activists and security forces, but without notable political advances or concessions from France.
He was the older brother of historian Othman Kaak.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Imen Abderrahmani. "Association des anciens élèves du collège Sadiki : comme au bon vieux temps !" (in Arabic). Retrieved January 13, 2016..
- ^ a b Éric Gobe (2013). Les avocats en Tunisie de la colonisation à la révolution (1883–2011). Paris: Karthala. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-2-8111-1056-7.
- ^ Khaled Lasram. "Kamel Eddine Djaït, the man who fought heterodoxy" (in French). Retrieved January 13, 2016.
- ^ Abou Zayane Salah Saadi (July 3, 2009). "Cultural evening on Othman Kaak" (in Arabic). Retrieved January 13, 2016.
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