What is Ali Shariati?
[[File:AliShariati.jpg|thumb|Ali Shariati]] '''Ali Shariati Mazinani''' ([[1933]]-[[1977]]) ([[Persian language|Persian]]: علی شريعتی مزینانی) or '''Shariati''' was an [[Iran]]ian [[Muslim]] [[philosopher]], [[sociologist]], [[poet]] and [[writer]]. == Shariati's life == Shariati was born in 1933 in [[Mazinan]], [[Iran]]. He studied [[sociology]] in the [[University of Paris]]. He returned to Iran in 1964. When he returned to Iran, the [[Shah]] regime arrested and imprisoned him for political reasons. He was released in 1965. Shariati began teaching at the [[University of Mashhad]]. He began lecturing at the [[Hosseiniye Ershad]] institute in 1967. The Shah regime arrested him again. When he was freed in 1975, he was not allowed to teach or publish anything. Shariati decided to leave the country for [[England]]. Three weeks later he died in [[Southampton]] under suspicious circumstances. He was buried in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]]. == Shariati's most important books == # '' [http://www.al-islam.org/hajj/shariati Hajj (The Pilgrimage)]'' # ''Where Shall We Begin?'' # ''Mission of a Free Thinker'' # ''The Free Man and Freedom of the Man'' # ''Extraction and Refinement of Cultural Resources'' # ''[[Martyrdom (book)]]'' # ''Arise and Bear Witness'' # ''Ali'' # ''An approach to Understanding Islam'' # ''A Visage of Prophet Muhammad'' # ''A Glance of Tomorrow's History'' # ''[[Reflections of Humanity]]'' # ''A Manifestation of Self-Reconstruction and Reformation'' # ''Selection and/or Election'' # ''Norouz, Declaration of Iranian's Livelihood, Eternity'' # ''[[Expectations from the Muslim Woman]]'' # ''[[Horr]]'' (''Battle of Karbala'') # ''Abu-Dahr'' # ''Hossein Heir of Adam'' # ''[[Islamology]]'' # ''[[Red Shi'ism vs. Black Shi'ism]]'' # ''Jihad and Shahadat'' # ''Reflections of a Concerned Muslim on the Plight of Oppressed People'' # ''[[A Message to the Enlightened Thinkers]]'' # ''Art Awaiting the Saviour'' # ''[[Fatemeh is Fatemeh]]'' # ''[[The Philosophy of Supplication]]'' # [[The Fall]] # [[One, in front of it,