Ahmad Fardid, born Seyyed Ahmad Mahini Yazdi in 1910 in Yazd, Iran and dying in 1994 in Tehran, was an Iranian philosopher and Tehran University professor considered one of the philosophical ideologues of the Islamic government of Iran established after the 1979 revolution. Deeply influenced by Martin Heidegger, whom he considered the only Western philosopher who truly understood the world, he worked mostly as an oral philosopher due to his sparse written output, attempting to synthesize Eastern civilizations with Western philosophy as interpreted through Heidegger while critiquing the anthropocentrism and rationalism he traced to classical Greece, including its influence on Islamic philosophers such as al-Farabi and Mulla Sadra. He is credited with coining the concept of Westoxication, describing cultural contamination from the West, a term later popularized by Jalal Al-e-Ahmad and adopted as a core idea by Iran's Islamic government.
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Defining MomentCoined the term Westoxication (gharbzadegi) in the 1940s 2 Notable PublicationDidar-e Farahi va Fotuhat-e Akhar-e Zaman (The Divine Encounter and Apocalyptic Revelations) 1 Office HeldProfessor of philosophy at the University of Tehran 2 TraditionHeideggerian philosophy combined with Islamist anti-Western nativism 3 In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Iran, originated there.
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1. Ahmad Fardid, Wikipedia
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Ahmad Fardid (Persian: سید احمد فردید; 1910, Yazd - 16 August 1994, Tehran), born Ahmad Mahini Yazdi, was a prominent Iranian philosopher and a professor of Tehran University.
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Ahmad Fardid (Persian: سید احمد فردید; 1910, Yazd - 16 August 1994, Tehran), born Ahmad Mahini Yazdi, was a prominent Iranian philosopher and a professor of Tehran University.
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Ahmad Fardid (Persian: سید احمد فردید; 1910, Yazd - 16 August 1994, Tehran), born Ahmad Mahini Yazdi, was a prominent Iranian philosopher and a professor of Tehran University.
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Ahmad Fardid. Didar e Farahi va Fotuhate Aakhare Zamaan [The Divine Encounter and Apocalystic Revelations], 2nd edition. Tehran: Moassesseye Farhangi va Pajoheshi Chap va Nashr Vaza, 2008, p. 77.
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Ahmad Fardid (Persian: سید احمد فردید; 1910, Yazd - 16 August 1994, Tehran), born Ahmad Mahini Yazdi, was a prominent Iranian philosopher and a professor of Tehran University.
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Ahmad Fardid (Persian: سید احمد فردید; 1910, Yazd - 16 August 1994, Tehran), born Ahmad Mahini Yazdi, was a prominent Iranian philosopher and a professor of Tehran University.
View the Source2. Gharbzadegi, Wikipedia
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The phrase was first coined in the 1940s by Ahmad Fardid, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran, to refer to the hegemony of ancient Greek philosophy, a different meaning from that later popularised by Jalal Al-e-Ahmad.
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The phrase was first coined in the 1940s by Ahmad Fardid, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tehran, to refer to the hegemony of ancient Greek philosophy, a different meaning from that later popularised by Jalal Al-e-Ahmad.
View the Source3. Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought, Cambridge University Press book page
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the reception of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger's thought by the influential Iranian Islamist, Ahmad Fardid
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