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Jalal Al-e-Ahmad was born on 2 December, 1923 in Tehran, Sublime State of Persia, is an Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator and philosopher. Discover Jalal Al-e-Ahmad's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 45 years old?

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Occupation Writer, social and political critic
Age 45 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 2 December, 1923
Birthday 2 December
Birthplace Tehran, Sublime State of Persia
Date of death 9 September, 1969
Died Place Asalem, Pahlavi Iran
Nationality Iran

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1923

Seyyed Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad (December 2, 1923 – September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, socio-political critic, sociologist, as well as an anthropologist who was "one of the earliest and most prominent of contemporary Iranian ethnographers".

He popularized the term gharbzadegi – variously translated in English as "westernstruck", "westoxification", and "Occidentosis" – producing a holistic ideological critique of the West "which combined strong themes of Frantz Fanon and Marx".

Jalal was born in Tehran, into a religious family – his father was a cleric – "originally from the village of Aurazan in the Taliqan district bordering Mazandaran in northern Iran, and in due time Jalal was to travel there, exerting himself actively for the welfare of the villagers and devoting to them the first of his anthropological monographs".

He was a cousin of Mahmoud Taleghani.

After elementary school Al-e-Ahmad was sent to earn a living in the Tehran bazaar, but also attended Marvi Madreseh for a religious education, and without his father's permission, night classes at the Dar ul-Fonun.

1944

He went to Seminary of Najaf in 1944 but returned home very quickly.

He became "acquainted with the speech and words of Ahmad Kasravi" and was unable to commit to the clerical career his father and brother had hoped he would take, describing it as "a snare in the shape of a cloak and an aba."

1946

In 1946 he earned an M.A. in Persian literature from Tehran Teachers College and became a teacher, at the same time making a sharp break with his religious family that left him "completely on his own resources."

1948

They formed an alternative party the Socialist Society of the Iranian Masses in January 1948 but disbanded it a few days later when Radio Moscow attacked it, unwilling to publicly oppose "what they considered the world's most progressive nations."

Nonetheless, the dissent of Al-e-Ahmad and Maleki marked "the end of the near hegemony of the party over intellectual life."

1950

In 1950, he married Simin Daneshvar, a well-known Persian novelist.

Jalal and Simin were infertile, a topic that was reflected in some of Jalal's works.

He died in Asalem, a rural region in the north of Iran, inside a cottage which was built almost entirely by himself.

He was buried in Firouzabadi mosque in Ray, Iran.

Commons and his wife, Simin, believe he was poisoned by SAVAK.

1951

He pursued academic studies further and enrolled in a doctoral program of Persian literature at Tehran University but quit before he had defended his dissertation in 1951.

1952

He later helped found the pro-Mossadegh Tudeh Party, one of the component parties of the National Front, and then in 1952 a new party called the Third Force.

1953

Following the 1953 Iranian coup d'état Al-e-Ahmad was imprisoned for several years and "so completely lost faith in party politics" that he signed a letter of repentance published in an Iranian newspaper declaring that he had "resigned from the Third Force, and completely abandoned politics."

1962

Al-e-Ahmad is perhaps most famous for using the term Gharbzadegi, originally coined by Ahmad Fardid and variously translated in English as weststruckness, westoxification and occidentosis - in a book by the same name Occidentosis: A Plague from the West, self-published by Al-e Ahmad in Iran in 1962.

In the book Al-e-Ahmad developed a "stinging critique of western technology, and by implication of Western `civilization` itself".

He argued that the decline of traditional Iranian industries such as carpet-weaving were the beginning of Western "economic and existential victories over the East."

His criticism of Western technology and mechanization was influenced, through Ahmad Fardid, by Heidegger, and he also considered Jean-Paul Sartre as another seminal philosophical influence.

There was also Ernst Jünger, to whom Jalal ascribes a major part in the genealogy of his famous book, and he goes on to say "Junger and I were both exploring more or less the same subject, but from two viewpoints. We were addressing the same question, but in two languages."

Throughout the twelve chapters of the essay, Al-e Ahmad defines gharbzadegi as a contagious disease, lists its initial symptoms and details its etiology, diagnoses local patients, offers prognosis for patients in other localities, and consults with other specialists to suggest a rather hazy antidote.

1967

He describes his family as a religious family in the autobiographical sketch that published after his death in 1967.

1969

However, he remained a part of the Third Force political group, attending its meetings, and continuing to follow the political mentorship of Khalil Maleki until their deaths in 1969.In 1963, visited Israel for two weeks, and in his account of his trip stated that the fusion of the religious and the secular he discerned in Israel afforded a potential model for the state of Iran.

1971

His message was embraced by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who wrote in 1971 that "'The poisonous culture of imperialism [is] penetrating to the depths of towns and villages throughout the Muslim world, displacing the culture of the Qur'an, recruiting our youth en masse to the service of foreigners and imperialists...'"

1979

and became part of the ideology of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which emphasized nationalization of industry, independence in all areas of life from both the Soviet and the Western world, and "self-sufficiency" in economics.

He was also one of the main influences of Ahmadinejad.

Ali Mirsepasi believes that Al-e Ahmad is concerned with the discourse of authenticity along with Shariati.

According to Mirsepasi, Jalal extended his critiques of the hegemonic power of west.

The critique is centered on the concept of westoxication.

Al-e Ahmad attacks secular intellectual with the concept.

He believes that the intellectuals could not construct effectively an authentically Iranian modernity.

In this occasion, he posed the concept of “return” to an Islamic culture which is authentic at the same time.

Al-e Ahmad believed for avoiding the homogenizing and alienating forces of modernity, it is necessary to return to roots of Islamic culture.

In fact, Al Ahmad wanted to reimagine modernity with Iranian-Islamic tradition.

Al-e-Ahmad joined the communist Tudeh Party along with his mentor Khalil Maleki shortly after World War II.

They "were too independent for the party" and resigned in protest over the lack of democracy and the "nakedly pro-Soviet" support for Soviet demands for oil concession and occupation of Iranian Azerbaijan.

2010

In 2010, the Tehran Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Department bought the house in which both Jalal Al-e Ahmad and his brother Shams were born and lived.