Destour

Constitutional Liberal Party
الحزب الحر الدستوري
Abbreviation Destour
Former president Abdelaziz Thâalbi
(1921–1944)
Founded 4 June 1920 (1920-06-04)
Dissolved 1962
Preceded by Young Tunisians
Succeeded by Neo Destour
Ideology Tunisian nationalism,
Arab nationalism
Pan-Arabism

The Constitutional Liberal Party (Arabic: الحزب الحر الدستوري‎‎, al-Ḥizb al-Ḥurr ad-Dustūrī), most commonly known as Destour, was a Tunisian political party, founded in 1920, which had as its goal to liberate Tunisia from French colonial control.

The term Destour is usually translated as constitutional, and referred to the Tunisian constitution of 1863—the first in the Arab world. It is probably of Persian origin through the presence of Turkish in Northern Africa during the 17th to the 19th century. There is no trace of this word in the Arabic spoken during the pre-Islamic period, nor in the Quran or hadiths, nor in the Arabic language literature during the period preceding the Ottoman Empire, during which this word began to be used in Egypt.

The party wanted to remove all French influence from Tunisia and return to an earlier time. The students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Ez-Zitouna became an integral part of the 1920s Destour party. As time passed, graduates from Sadiki College took the high level positions in the party, while Zitouna graduates were the lower and medium cadres of it.[1]

Founding members

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Notes

  1. ↑ Micaud 93.

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