Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

One of the questions that have for long been the concern of Iranian thinkers and intellectuals is the subject of indigenous criteria and indigenization, and so several versions have been presented in this respect. This idea was first mooted in response to the colonization and influence of western culture and then it developed gradually. Such concepts like indigenous and Islamic science are the outcome of the discussions. Having reviewed the history of Al Ahmad's political thoughts and activities, the present paper investigates how indigenization- as a historical concept came into Al Ahmad's literary, political, and intellectual activities and then developed to prepare the ground for having a kind of indigenous human sciences. The studies show that during 1320 to 1340 (solar) Al Ahmad gradually approached the indigenous life of Iranian people and Islamic- Shiite worldview under the influence of such factors like western and Iranian intellectuals' literary and theoretical tradition, political events of the time and his traditional-religious education. In some cases, he modified his modern and intellectual view in favor of Islamic tradition.