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Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

1923 - 1969

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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, 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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jalal Al-e-Ahmad is the 3,980th most popular writer (down from 3,531st in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Iran (down from 314th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Iranian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 3,980 out of 7,302. Before him are Hafez Ibrahim, Maurice Scève, Marko Kropyvnytskyi, Shuntarō Tanikawa, Tarabai Shinde, and Milovan Glišić. After him are Chandrashekhara Kambara, Elia Abu Madi, Edna O'Brien, Dulce María Loynaz, Richard Beer-Hofmann, and Janko Matúška.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 241. Before him are Victor Papanek, Jorge María Mejía, Joseph Colombo, Ioannis Grivas, Devan Nair, and Al Lewis. After him are Charlie Mariano, Mikhail Yegorov, Inger Jacobsen, Og Mandino, Karl-Heinz Metzner, and Lygia Fagundes Telles. Among people deceased in 1969, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 138. Before him are Kurt Blome, Juan Modesto, C. N. Annadurai, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Gabriel Chevallier, and Silvestre Igoa. After him are Otto Fahr, Al Taliaferro, Saverio Ragno, René Guillot, Henri Decoin, and Ernst Deutsch.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 336 out of 631. Before him are Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Abbas (1944), Kamal-ol-molk (1848), Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904), Hossein Wahid Khorasani (1921), and Ali-Morad Khan Zand (1779). After him are Simin Behbahani (1927), Ibn Bibi (1250), Ismail III (1733), Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Mohammad Rasoulof (1972), and Haj Ali Razmara (1901).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad ranks 43. Before him are Nima Yooshij (1897), Ahmad Shamlou (1925), Subh-i-Azal (1831), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Saib Tabrizi (1592), and Simin Daneshvar (1921). After him are Simin Behbahani (1927), Ibn Bibi (1250), Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995), Iraj Mirza (1874), Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (1001), and Cassandra Clare (1973).

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