Education
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad graduated from the University of Tehran in 1946. He pursued academic studies further and enrolled in a doctoral program of Persian literature at Tehran University but quit before he had defended his dissertation in 1951.
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad graduated from the University of Tehran in 1946. He pursued academic studies further and enrolled in a doctoral program of Persian literature at Tehran University but quit before he had defended his dissertation in 1951.
He served as a teacher. Later he held the post of an editor and writer for various political publications, including Mardom and Rahbar. Mr. Al-e-Ahmad was also known to be a fiction and nonfiction writer.
He died in Asalem, a rural region in the north of Iran, inside a cottage which was built almost entirely by himself. He was buried in Firouzabadi mosque in Ray, Iran. Commons and his wife, Simin, believe he was poisoned by Savak.
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A religious skeptic and social critic throughout his life, Mr. Al-e-Ahmad joined Iran’s Tudeh Communist party while still in college. His political and ideological loyalties gradually shifted over the course of his life. Eventually Jalal Al-e-Ahmad left the communist party to support the Iranian nationalist cause, aligning himself with the National Front Movement and the Third Force Party during the 1950s. At the end of his life he came nearly full circle politically, espousing a return to Islamic values as the basis of Iranian culture.
Mr. Al-e-Ahmad married Simin Daneshvar in 1950. Jalal and Simin were infertile.