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Muhammad al-Tahir Ibn Achour (Tunisia, 1296 AH / 1879-13 Rajab 1393 AH / 12 August 1973) is a Tunisian scholar and jurist. His family descended from Andalusia. His origins go back to the nobles of Morocco. The Idrisids studied at the Zaytuna Mosque and then became one of his top teachers. He was on a date with the meeting of Imam Muhammad Abdo in Tunisia when the latter visited it in Rajab 1321 AH corresponding to 1903 AD. He was named governor of the Mixed Council in 1909, then a Maliki judge in 1911. He rose to the rank of fatwa and in 1932 he was chosen to the position of Sheikh al-Islam al-Maliki, and when the scientific glasses were removed he became the first Sheikh of Zaytuna University and was expelled from it for political reasons to return to his position in 1945 and remained in it until after the independence Tunisia in 1956. Among the most famous of his peers who accompanied them at Zaytuna University: the late Sheikh of Al-Azhar, Muhammad al-Khidr Husayn, and his son Muhammad al-Fadil Ibn Ashour, in turn, was one of the prominent religious scholars in Tunisia. Sheikh Muhammad Al-Taher bin Ashour is considered the author of the fastest Friday sermon in the history of Islam, as he climbed on the pulpit of the Zaytuna Mosque in one of the Friday sermons. They complained to me in the market.” The worshipers did not speak, so the sheikh sat down, then got up and said: “There is no good in your prayers when your women are naked.” Then he said, “Establish prayer, O imam.”