Mohamed Bayram II (28 October 1748, in

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– 23 October 1831) is a Tunisian scholar and

cleric Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the ter ...

. Son of Mohamed Bayram I, he belongs to the Bayram family notable for being native from

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. His mother was the daughter of the

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Mufti Baroudi Hussein. Mohamed Bayram II learned

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and

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from his father,

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from

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Mohamed Qarbattaq and other religious sciences from Sheikh Salah Ibn Abi Kawech. He succeeded his father as

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and taught at the

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. In 1778, he was appointed as a

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in Tunis before returning to teaching in 1780.Ibn Abi Dhiaf, ''op. cit.'', p. 159 His father was appointed as a Hanafi mufti in 1801 by the sovereign

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and was at the head of the Sharia board until his death. He published a series of books on historical and genealogical dimension of Hanafi. He frequently used the

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to take the arguments of his fatwas. He still has a reputation as a prolific worker.

Works

* History of the Tunisian literature as Muradite and Husseinite dynasties () * Compilation of biographies of Tunisian scholars (), composed entirely in verses * The masters of poetry and literature () He also wrote a brief history of his family since his arrival in Tunis with the contingent of

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, several works on

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such as the uniqueness of

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and a book on the Muslim calendar based on the calculation and observation of the moon ().

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