Jalal Al-Ahmad, Occidentosis and Necessity of Return to Tradition

The article seeks to criticize Jalal Al-ahmad''s conceptions، in particular in contrast to Iranian contemporary thinker، Ahmad fardid''s profound insigts، of the concepts of the West and Westrnizaton، his understanding of social، historical causes of Westernization and also his realization of tradition and necessity of return to it، which have had a very basic role in the formation of the paradigm of Iranians'' social thought in contemporary history. It is worthy to mention that Al-ahmad''s social thought paradigm has domination in Iranaian recent social sphere yet after about the past of half a century from being written his Westernization.