Tunisian writer and thinker. He was born in the village of Tazarka, in the governorate of Nabeul, Tunisia. He began his education in the village scribe, where he completed the memorization of the Qur'an before starting primary school in Qorba. Then he completed secondary school at the Sadiki Institute in 1933. In the same year, he joined the Faculty of Arts at the Sorbonne University to study Arabic language and literature. He graduated from it in 1936, and proceeded to prepare his first dissertation, "Abu Nawas Poetry School", and his second dissertation on "rhythm in Arabic assonance", but the Second World War prevented their completion. The second was published, later, in Arabic and French. Al-Masadi taught university in Tunisia and France. In addition to university teaching, Al-Masadi became involved in politics, taking responsibility for education affairs in the national independence movement, which he joined as a fighter against French colonialism. He also played a leading role in the union work of teachers. After independence in 1956, Messaadi took over the Ministry of National Education, where he founded the Tunisian University. Before that, he had been able to establish free education for every Tunisian child. In 1976, Al-Masadi took over the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. Before he ended his political life as Speaker of Parliament, and in addition to these responsibilities, the writer had extensive activities in UNESCO, ALECSO and the Arabic Language Academy in Jordan. He also supervised the "Al-Mabahith" magazine in 1944, and then the "Al-Hayat Al-Thaqafa" magazine in 1975. Al-Masadi wrote his important works between 1939 and 1947. These works reveal the influence of the Qur'an on his intellectual and ideological formation and his style. His works also reveal his awareness of the work of Muslim thinkers in different eras, and the ancient Arabic literature, which he began to be interested in since his secondary school stage, in addition to his extensive and deep knowledge of French literature in particular and Western literature in general. Al-Masadi’s books narrated by Abu Huraira he said (1939, the entire work was printed in 1973), the German translation was issued on 11/2009. Al-Sad (1940, the entire work was printed in 1955), the German translation was published in October 2007. The birth of oblivion, which was first published in 1945 and translated into French (1993) and Dutch (1995). The German translation was issued in March 2008. "A Rooting for an entity" in which he collected his literary and intellectual writings throughout his life. From the days of Imran.