Jalal al ahmad biography for kids

Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator and philosopher

Seyyed Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad (Persian: جلال آل‌احمد; December 2, 1923 – September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher,^[1] socio-political critic, sociologist,^[2] as well as an anthropologist who was "one of the earliest and most prominent of contemporary Iranian ethnographers".^[3] He popularized the term gharbzadegi – variously translated in English as "westernstruck", "westoxification", and "Occidentosis" – ^[4] producing a holistic ideological critique of the West "which combined strong themes of Frantz Fanon and Marx".^[5]

Personal life

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 activel