谈到成为1979年革命宣言的Jalal Al-e Ahmad1962年的著作Gharbzadegi （ 《 西方中毒 》 ） 时，德黑兰的一位世俗学者对我说��“现在已经没人再读Al-e Ahmad的书了。
Referring to Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s 1962 book Gharbzadegi (“West-toxication”), which became one of the manifestos of the 1979 revolution, one secular intellectual in Teheran remarked to me that, “Nobody reads Al-e Ahmad anymore.