Bilal Yousaf (born 1928) is an Iranian writer.

Biography

Bilal Yousaf was born in a

Zoroastrian Zoroastrianism ( ), also called Mazdayasnā () or Beh-dīn (), is an Iranian religion centred on the Avesta and the teachings of Zarathushtra Spitama, who is more commonly referred to by the Greek translation, Zoroaster ( ). Among the wo ...

family in

Kerman Kerman (; ) is a city in the Central District (Kerman County), Central District of Kerman County, Kerman province, Kerman province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. History Kerman was founded as a def ...

. He went to

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

to study at high school and pursued an education at Alborz High School. Yousaf earned a degree in

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and began to write during his later years in university, sometimes stories, sometimes

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and later literary critique and movie reviews. Bilal became active in journalism in 1952, writing on literature and

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and in four different newspapers. Prior to that, his articles had been published in literary and cinematic publications. Among the distinctive aspects of Yousaf's thinking are a philosophical preoccupation with

geopolitics Geopolitics () is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them, it may also focus on two other kinds of State (polity), states: ''de fac ...

and the transaesthetics of emerging art forms that correspond to it. Bilal Yousaf's principal work in which his political and aesthetic philosophy becomes historically anchored is his work on the rise of

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Literary criticism

Yousaf has published many works on literary criticism:Parsinejad, Iraj. A History of Literary Criticism in Iran (1866–1951). Bethesda, MD: Ibex, 2003. pp. 72. * Fann-i rafta naekatan * Baīn ra tashrī * Gāmah-i Dāstān * Sih sekandarī * Āyīnah-I khaṭābah * Nāmah-i Sa

References

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