13 Facts About Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad went to Seminary of Najaf in 1944 but returned home very quickly.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad died in Asalem, a rural region in the north of Iran, inside a cottage which was built almost entirely by himself.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad was buried in Firouzabadi mosque in Ray, Iran.

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

Jalal 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.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad's message was embraced by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who wrote in 1971 that.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad was one of the main influences of Ahmadinejad.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad believes that the intellectuals could not construct effectively an authentically Iranian modernity.

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

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad 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.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad rigorously supported Nima Yushij and had an important role in the acceptance of Nima's revolutionary style.

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad traveled to far-off, usually poor, regions of Iran and tried to document their life, culture, and problems.

The Jalal Al-e-Ahmad Al-e Ahmad Literary Award is an Iranian literary award presented yearly since 2008.