Ali Shariati (1933-1977) has been called the "Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution." His reinterpretation of Islam in modern sociological categories prepared the way for the Islamic revival that shook Iran in 1979, attracting many young Muslims who had...

(1933–1977), Iranian Islamic intellectual. Ali Shariati was an Iranian Islamic intellectual whose writings and teachings contributed to the growth of revolutionary Islam in Iran. He was born in the village of Mazinan. Soon after, he moved with...

Shariati, Ali(1933 ism is different from that of the religious orthodoxy, especially as it places authority in the opinion of the individual, a vindication of ijtihad or independent judgment rather distant from normal understandings of the notion in...

Ali Shariati (Persian: علی شريعتی‎) (1933–1977) was an Iranian sociologist, well known and respected for his works in the field of sociology of religion. He translated Frantz Fanon' The Wretched of the Earth in Persian...