A ranar 23 ga Janairu, 1846, wani al’amari mai tarihi ya faru a Tunisiya: an soke bautar bisa hukuma bisa umarnin Ahmed Bey. Wannan hangen nesa ya sanya Tunisiya ta zama kasa ta farko a cikin kasashen Larabawa da musulmi da ke goyon bayan yunkurin kawar da shi. Ahmed Bey, wanda ra’ayoyin masu sassaucin ra’ayi na zamaninsa suka rinjayi, ya yanke wannan shawarar tun kafin Faransa.
Tuni Tunisiya wuri ne na tarurrukan ilimi, inda aka yada sabbin ra’ayoyi karkashin jagorancin Ahmed Bey.
Har ila yau, soke bautar yana da tushe na addini, wanda fatawar Sheikh Ibrahim Riahi da Bayrem de la Zitouna suka goyi bayan. Matakin ya haɗa bayi 167,000 cikin al’ummar Tunisiya, kodayake wasu yankuna sun ki amincewa da sauyin.
Wannan karimcin Ahmed Bey na nuni da budaddiyar tunani da zamanantar da kasar, kuma ya nuna mafarin samun sauyi a cikin al’umma a Tunisiya kuma ya ba da gudummawa ga hangen nesa a kasar ta fuskar sauye-sauyen nan gaba, musamman ma tsaron Faransa a 1881. Tsofaffin bayi sun amfana da su. ‘yancin tattalin arziki da iyali albarkacin dokar mulkin mallaka a 1890, wanda ya kara tasirin kawo sauyi da Ahmed Bey ya fara. A yau, wani allunan tunawa da kabarin Thomas Reade ya tuna da wannan lokaci mai cike da tarihi a Tunisiya.
