Sadok Ghileb

Sadok Ghileb
Sadok Ghileb
Mayor of Tunis
Preceded by	Mohamed Asfouri
Succeeded by	Mustapha Dinguizli

Sadok Ghileb (c. 1840–1912) was a Tunisian politician and mayor of Tunis.

Biography

Ghileb was born in Tunisia around 1840, into a bourgeois family of Turkish origin. He was the maternal uncle of Mustapha Dinguizli, who succeeded him in office.^[1] During his studies at the Al-Zaytuna Mosque Ghileb became interested in politics.^[1] In 1864 he became an aide to Muhammad III as-Sadiq until he headed to City Council in Tunis as vice president in 1877.^[1] Between 1886 and 1902 he became the Governor of El Kef, of Soliman, Bizerte and Nabeul. He succeeded Mohamed Asfouri as the mayor of Tunis until his death in 1912.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour, Catégories de la société tunisoise dans la deuxième moitié du XIX^e siècle, éd. Institut national d'archéologie et d'art, Tunis, 1989, p. 235

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[achour235-1] Mohamed El Aziz Ben Achour, Catégories de la société tunisoise dans la deuxième moitié du XIX^e siècle, éd. Institut national d'archéologie et d'art, Tunis, 1989, p. 235

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