page_title: Muhammad III as-Sadiq
section_title: Private life
hierarchical_section_title: Muhammad III as-Sadiq / Private life
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Private drawing room, Palace of the Bey of Tunis, Kasr-el-Said. This color photochrome print was made in 1899 in Kasr-el-Said, Tunisia.
context_page_description: Muhammad III as-Sadiq GCB was the Husainid Bey of Tunis from 1859 until his death. Invested as Bey al-Mahalla on 10 June 1855, he succeeded his brother Muhammad II ibn al-Husayn on 23 September 1859. Named as divisional General in the Imperial Ottoman Army on 10 June 1855, he was promoted to the rank of Marshal on 10 December 1859.
context_section_description: Muhammad as-Sadiq had several wives. The first was his cousin, the daughter of the Qaid Ahmed al-Munastiri, from a Turkish family which had been influential in the harem of the Beys of Tunis throughout the century; her mother and grandmother were respectively the second wives of Hussein II Bey et Mahmud ibn Muhammad. His second wife was Henani, daughter of Ali Laroussi, a rich merchant dealing in traditional Tunisian chéchia headgear. He also married a Circassian odalisque Lella Kmar, who was a gift from the Ottoman sultan.
  His main residence was the Ksar Said palace, built in an Italianate style in front of the Bardo palace.  It had been confiscated from the former minister and Keeper of the Seals, Ismail as-Sunni, who was accused of treason and executed in 1867. (This minister was the maternal grandfather of the future Moncef Bey). It was to one of the first floor staterooms of this palace that, on 12 May 1881, the French consul Théodore Roustan brought the French General Jules Aimé Bréart to the Bey's privy council to secure his signature on the Treaty of Bardo.
  In his later years, the Bey fell under the influence Mustapha Ben Ismaïl, and died without issue.  He was buried in the Tourbet el Bey mausoleum in the medina of Tunis. He was succeeded by his brother Ali III ibn al-Husayn.
caption: Private chambers of Muhammad III as-Sadiq in Ksar Said
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