Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
Writer, thinker, and social and political critic
Died when: 45 years 281 days (549 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
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Seyyed Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (Persian: ???? ???????; 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".
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