Shahid Motahhari's approach towards the cultural invasion of the West Journal Article

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Martyr Professor Morteza Motahhari has had an important, sensitive, and historical role in opposing the West's cultural invasion, which in this writing briefly addresses the roots of Westoxification and its proponents in Iran and the struggles of Martyr Motahhari3 in confronting it. Motahhari: The Founder of the Movement to Re-recognize Authentic Islam The Shiite clergy has always struggled against the historical current of Westernization, and Professor Motahhari was not the only individual to rise up against the atheistic and humanistic culture of the West and to fight in defense of Islam. In the long-term approach, the martyred Professor addressed the foundations and principles of Western thought and culture, which was the fundamental and serious struggle of the martyr against an intellectual current. Short-term Approach The struggle and combat of Professor Motahhari against the manifestations of aggressive Western thought and culture in Iran, due to its chronological suitability, traces back to the second Pahlavi era. When syncretic thought with the West had become prevalent among religious people, and philosophical thought was being severely suppressed by the aforementioned trend, and empirical logic was being proposed as the only way to know the Quran, the late Motahhari published the valuable book "Principles of Philosophy and the Method of Realism"1 with annotations on its first volume, and this was his first step in the long struggle. In these works, for the first time in Shia history, the late Motahhari addressed the coherent explanation of the main lines of the Islamic worldview according to the needs of the younger generation of society and pointed out its points of divergence from materialist and Western schools of thought.