Seyyed Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (جلال آل‌احمد‎) was a prominent Iranian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, translator, socio-political critic, sociologist as well as an anthropologist.  He was born in Tehran, Iran on December 2nd, 1923 and died on September 9th, 1969. He popularized the term Gharbzadegi which translates to west-detoxification, producing a holistic ideological critique of the West "which combined strong themes of Frantz Fanon and Carl Marx".