Hassan Hosni bin Saleh bin Abdul Wahhab bin Yusuf Al-Samadhi Al-Tujibi . He was born in Tunis, on Monday 27 Ramadan 1301 AH / 21 July 1884 AD - and died there on Saturday 18 Sha’ban 1388 AH / 9 November 1968 AD ) a Tunisian writer, linguist and historian, his name is compound: (Hassan Hosni)
Biography
Origins
Hassan Hosni Abdel-Wahhab descended from a family of ease and prestige, as he descended from Banu Sumadih, one of the Taifa dynasties of al-Andalus. His grandfather, Abdel-Wahhab Bin Youssef Al-Tujibi, was in charge of the affairs of the country's National Guard (Al-Hawanib) and presided over the ceremonies during the reign of the Husainid Beys during the reigns of Muhammad Bey, Hussein Bey and Mustafa Bey and Ahmed Bey I. His father, Saleh bin Abd al-Wahhab, held several positions in the state, including a special translator for the Minister of Foreign Affairs, General Hussein, and Amel al- Bey in al-Awad (southern Tunisia) and Mahdia. As for his mother, he is descended from Ali bin Mustafa Agha Kayseri, one of Hayreddin Pasha's chief aides.
His upbringing
He received his primary education in one of the schools of Tunis, then at the elementary school in Mahdia, where he memorized a quarter of the Qur’an and began learning French. Then he entered the first French school in the metropolis and obtained a certificate of primary sciences in 1899. At that time, he joined the Al-Sadiqi school and Bahadros Arabic and translation, then he went to the French capital, Paris, and joined the student body of the School of Political Science . However, he returned to Tunisia upon the death of his father in 1904.
Career path
Hassan Hosni Abdel Wahhab was fluctuated in several administrative positions, as he worked in the Department of Agriculture and Trade in the State Property Department between 1905 and 1910, then he was appointed head of the Department of the Zayatin Forest in the north of the Tunisian country . Head of the Tunisian archives treasury, and he was the first to put in place a device to index its contents. In the same year, he was appointed as a leader (i.e., a governor) over the Muthalith, and the headquarters of the leadership was the city of Jabiana, and he moved with the same plan in 1928 to Mahdia and stayed there until 1935, to move to the tribal homeland and its headquarters in the city of Nabeul. In 1939, he returned to the city of Tunis to be appointed as Under-Secretary of the Local and Regional Administration for the Internal Administration of the Country. Then, he was appointed head of the Endowment Authority between 1942 and 1943 . On 3 May of this year, he was appointed Minister of the Pen at the beginning of the reign of Muhammad Al-Amin Bey, and he continued in this position until July 1947 . After independence, he was appointed head of the National Institute of Archaeology and Arts between 1957 and 1962 and established during this period five museums, four of them for Islamic antiquities, and the fifth for Roman antiquities in Carthage.
Scientific activity
Despite his assumption of administrative positions, Hassan Hosni Abdel Wahab had a distinguished scientific and cultural activity, and he did not stop writing, giving lessons and lectures. Hassan Hosni Abdel-Wahhab participated in a large number of scientific and cultural conferences outside Tunisia, including: the orientalist conference organized in Algiers in 1905, he also participated in the Copenhagen conference in Denmark in 1908, the Paris conference of French orientalists in 1922 and the Rabat Al-Fath conference in Morocco in 1927 And the Oriental Music Conference in Cairo in 1932, along with several other conferences and symposia in which he represented the Tunisian government.
In addition, Hassan Hosni Abdel-Wahhab has been a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Damascus since 1919, the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo since 1932, the Iraqi Academic Academy and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Arts since 1939, He is also a member of the Egyptian Institute and a corresponding member of the Spanish Historical Institute. He also had the opportunity to teach history at the Khalduniya School between 1910 and 1924 .
Besides Arabic, Hassan Hosni Abdel Wahab speaks fluent French, and is relatively fluent in Italian and Turkish.
Concern for heritage
Hassan Hosni Abdel Wahhab was fond of collecting manuscripts and rare books, and during his life he collected a large number of precious manuscripts and presented them to the Tunisian National Library . Among the most important oldest copies of the Qur’an in the library of Hassan Hosni Abdel Wahhab in the National Library are the following: