Occidentosis: A Plague from the West (Contemporary Islamic by Ahmad, Jalal Al-i; Translated by R. Campbell; Annotations PDF

By Ahmad, Jalal Al-i; Translated by R. Campbell; Annotations and Introduction by Hamid Algar

ISBN-10: 0933782128

ISBN-13: 9780933782129

Suppressed in Iran through the reign of the Shah, this booklet for the 1st time in a cautious, annotated translation was once released after the Islamic Revolution. it's a powerful and emotional assertion through an Iranian highbrow deeply inquisitive about what he observed as his country’s succumbing to "A plague from the West" or "occidentosis." providing observations, insights, purposes for satisfaction in Iran’s prior and tradition, and important analyses of the Western position in th international. Jalal Al-i Ahmad expresses the various matters that agitated the intelligentsia through the twenty years sooner than the Islamic Revolution. the writer starts off by means of explaining his time period "occidentosis: and describing how he sees the realm: as divided among the poles of East and West. The department isn't a lot a geographical or an ideological schism, as a department among the produces and the shoppers of machines. a quick evaluation of background is helping clarify how and why Iran grew occidentotic. He can't and doesn't forget about the function of oil. the various contradictions that outcome from the compelled intake of Western machines and items in Iran are the topic of the longest and such a lot conscientiously thought of chapters within the booklet. Westerners, who industrailized step-by-step over enormous quantities of years, by no means observed such sharp contrasts as "a guy grading Kharg Island with a titanic bulldozer with blue bead striking from the steerage wheel." Breaking the spell of occidentosis is the topic of one other bankruptcy. the writer rejects either the choices of closing passive shoppers of the laptop and eschewing the desktop and reverting to pre-industrial modes of lifestyles. relatively, he advocates gaining keep an eye on of the laptop so Iranians can use it as a way, no longer an finish, "to abolish poverty and placed fabric and non secular welfare with the achieve of all." As an educator Jalal Al-i Ahmad was once relatively all for ow Iran's colleges look after its occidentotic society. He issues out during this e-book how leaders whose first curiosity was once now not the welfare of the Iranian humans or the protection of its cultural traditions have been grew to become out yr after 12 months by way of Iranian universities or back to their state from American and eu academic associations. The ebook closes with a plea for everybody not only Iranians or Easterners, to evoke to the hazards of mechanosis, the last word finish of with the intention to be destruction of the area with a nuclear bomb.