Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0009
Hamid Dabashi
A detailed consideration of Al-e Ahmad’s translations of mostly European sources. What were these translations, from what originals, for what reasons, and what do they tells us about Al-e Ahmad's state of mind?
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0003
Hamid Dabashi
In this chapter I wish to place the short but exceptionally rich and important life of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923–69) in the context of the most vital events of his deeply consequential life. Born during the waning years of the Qajar dynasty (1789–1925) and dead at the age of forty-six, soon after the June 1963 uprising of Ayatollah Khomeini against Mohammad Reza Shah, Al-e Ahmad lived an enduringly influential life, leaving his indelible mark on the fate of his homeland. His intellectual and political career began at a very young age in his late teens, and he died of a sudden stroke at the prime of his literary and intellectual productivities.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0001
Hamid Dabashi
I thought if I were to deliver a paper in this conference, I’d say that the first anthropologists were following Alexander the Great, then following Christianity and then Islam. In other words, anthropologists have always camped with world conquerors. Alexander was the best among them, and [the age of] machine the worst. In other words, what is called ‘anthropology’ or ‘ethnography’ etc. have all been there because world conquerors needed to know the people they were going to rule....
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0002
Hamid Dabashi
In this chapter I wish to map out the historical and theoretical landscape upon which I intend to construct this book on Jalal Al-e Ahmad, whom I am proposing be read as ‘the last Muslim intellectual’. To do so I would like to begin with the last time I had an urgent occasion to write on Al-e Ahmad. Detailing the particular time of that occasion and why I then turned to Al-e Ahmad is the best means of describing why I have now returned to this seminal figure in the history of the Iranian encounter with colonial modernity.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0006
Hamid Dabashi
The study of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s arguably most seminal text Gharbzadegi (Westoxication) has historically suffered from a mode of bizarre nativism that has in turn projected the nativism of the Iranian or Iranist scholar onto the presumed nativism of the subject of their studies, Al-e Ahmad himself. Al-e Ahmad, contrary to their common assumption, was not a nativist. Quite to the contrary: he had a wide global perspective in his prose and politics. They are nativist – these scholars who have historically, systematically and consistently abused, misread and sought to discredit him as ‘a nativist’. This chapter revist Al-e Ahmad’s classic text --
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0008
Hamid Dabashi
This chapters covers the writings of Al-e Ahamad on his travels around the world as well as inside Iran. He was famous for his ethnographic writings on small Iranian villages, and he carried his observations around the world to Russia, Europe, US, and most perhaps pointedly to his famous Hajj pilgrimage. What did he see what did he think and what did he write?
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0004
Hamid Dabashi
Before I go any further and in this chapter explore the relationship of Jalal Al-Ahmad and his wife Simin Daneshvar, a seminal aspect of both their lives and characters, let me briefly recap the major points I have been driving home so far as I write this book on the person I have suggested we consider ‘the last Muslim intellectual’.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0010
Hamid Dabashi
Why should one bother to go back and re-examine the short life and enduring significance of a public intellectual if not to push his crucial but limited achievements forward and place them on a global stage? It is now time for me to bring all my previous chapters together in this final push to deliver on my main objective of suggesting Al-e Ahmad as a harbinger of a post-Islamist liberation theology
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Pub Date : 2021-03-31DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474479288.003.0005
Hamid Dabashi
Our conclusions towards the end of the last chapter open up new ways of thinking about Al-e Ahmad’s prose and politics as we move steadily towards considering his legacy for the posterity of a post-Islamist liberation theology. The question of gender remains central and even definitive to the moral imperative of that liberation theology. If that liberation theology will remain pathologically masculinist and its politics ignorant of the gendered disposition of being a Muslim, let alone an intellectual, then that liberation could never shed its reactionary disposition. It is of course absolutely necessary and indispensable for women of different classes and races to be integral to the social and political disposition of that liberation – in the formation of the very public sphere upon which that theology is to be articulated.
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