Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

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Jalāl Āl-e-Ahmad جلال آل‌احمد
Born	(1923-12-02)2 December 1923 Tehran, Sublime State of Persia
Died	9 September 1969(1969-09-09) (aged 45) Asalem, Pahlavi Iran
Nationality	Iranian
Occupation(s)	Writer, social and political critic
Political party	Tudeh Party (1945–1948) Third Force (1948–1951) Toilers Party (1951–1952) Third Force (1952–1953)
Spouse	Simin Daneshvar (1950−1969, his death)
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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]