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SHARIATI & AL-E AHMAD
http://ghandchi.com/23-Shariati_Al-e_Ahmad.htm
It would be a greatly needed research to see how the likes of Shariati and Al-e Ahmad were the prophets of retrogression
that took shape among Iranian intellectuals during the last decades of Shah's
regime. For a long time, Shariati was allowed to
present his speeches at hoseinieh ershAd
in jAdeh-e ghadeem-e shemiran, which is now called
Shariati was a symbol of animosity with liberal democracy in the years following KhordAd 1342. The youth, who were disappointed with the last failure of Jebh-e Melli government of 1339, to establish democratic monarchy in Iran, either went the Islamist way of Shariati, or followed the leftist path of cherikhA-ye fadAyii khAlgh.
Another prophet of retrogression in those years, who highly influenced the youth was jalAl-e Al-e Ahmad. His infamous book called "gharb zadegi", did more damage to the Iranian youth's social thought, than any other book I can think of. It was in a way like Unabomber's hatred for modernization.
I have written a series of articles fifteen years ago,
entitled Progressiveness in the Present Epoch, where I explained how I see the
formation of the retrogression (vApas-garAii) that
finally took over
http://www.ghandchi.com/01-Progressiveness
I hope Iranian scholars do more research into how the ideas of the likes of jalAl-e Al-e Ahmad and Shariati have damaged Iranian social development so much in the last quarter century.
Sam Ghandchi
RELATED ARTICLE:
http://www.ghandchi.com/174-noshariati.htm
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