Vom Westen geschlagen? Zur heutigen Rezeption von ʿAli Šarīʿatī und Āl-e Aḥmad in Iran

Document Type : Review Paper

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University of Cologne, Germany

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In 1962, a booklet published in Iran, which included many of the thoughts that later Edward Said formulated in his Orientalism. The booklet was Jalal Āl-e Ahmad’s Gharbzadegī. Similarly, such thinking about the West continued in Ali Shariati’s Ommat wa Emāmat. These two books, in addition to the Tanbīh al-umma wa tanzīh al-milla (Awakening of Communion and Purification of the Nation) by Mirzā Moḥammad Ḥossein Nāʼīnī and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeyni’s Ḥokūmat-e eslāmī (The Islamic Government) are likely to be the most influential books in Iran in the twentieth century. This paper deals with the analysis of the mentioned books and today's reception of Ali Shariati and Āl-e Ahmad’s works in Iran. 

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