Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad

Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad (Arabic: محمد صلاح بن مراد), (1881–1979) was a Tunisian theologian, journalist and intellectual.

Born in the Medina of Tunis near the Tourbet el Bey, Mohamed Salah was the son of the Hanafi Bach-mufti, Sheikh H'mida Ben Mrad, a specialist in rhetoric and the elder brother of the sheikhs Neji (who served as qadi and mufti) and Brahim Ben Mrad (who served as imam, teacher at the Zaytuna, and judge at the Tunis tribunal).

He defends the idea of Tunisian women wearing "safsari", which he finds not a sign of religious identification but a more traditional dress akin to a national uniform shared by all social groups.

He also rejects the idea that social reforms can be accomplished without the time necessary for their understanding and assimilation by a colonized population still largely illiterate.

Contrary to what some thought, the sheikh gave his daughters a modern education that closely mingled with the intellectual and cultural life in Tunis.