Jalal al ahmad biography meaning

ĀL-E AḤMAD, JALĀL ( Š./), well-known writer and social critic.

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This book recounts a fascinating journey undertaken by an Iranian intellectual to an Israel that existed primarily in the author's mind.

Jalal Al-e Ahmad was born to a clerical religious family in Tehran in A teacher all his life, he joined the Communist Tudeh Party in.

Al-e Ahmad was born and raised in a prominent Shia clerical family.

Born during the waning years of the Qajar dynasty (–) and dead at the age of forty-six, soon after the June uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini against.

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In a brief autobiographical sketch completed in Š./ but published only after his death (Maṯalan sarḥ-e aḥwālāt) Āl-e Aḥmad describes his conservatively religious and moderately well-to-do family; his father’s strong religious principles led him to close his court of record (maḥżar) rather than submit to government supervision.

He wanted his son to follow a career in the bazaar, and Jalāl’s formal education would have ended with elementary school had he not chosen to register—without his father’s knowledge—for evening classes at the Dār-al-fonūn, while he worked days as, variously, a watchmaker, electrician, and leather merchant.

Finishing in Š./, he went on to the Faculty of Letters of Tehran Teachers’ College, graduating in Š./, and in the following year he was hired as a school teacher by the Ministry of Education. He was oblig