Scores of books and articles have been published, addressing one
or another aspect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Missing from
this body of scholarship, however, has been a comprehensive
analysis of the intellectual and ideological cornerstones of one of
the most dramatic revolutions in our time. In this remarkable
volume, Hamid Dabashi brings together, in a sustained and
engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have
shaped the ideological disposition of this cataclysmic event.
Dabashi has spent over ten years studying the writings, in their
original Persian and Arabic, of the most influential Iranian
clerics and thinkers.
Examining the revolutionary sentiments and ideas of such figures
as Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ali Sharicati, Morteza Motahhari, Sayyad
Abolhasan Bani-Sadr, and finally the Ayatollah Khomeini, the work
also analyzes the larger historical and theoretical implications of
any construction of "the Islamic Ideology." Carefully located in
the social and intellectual context of the four decades preceding
the 1979 revolution, "Theology of Discontent" is the definitive
treatment of the ideological foundations of the Islamic Revolution,
with particular attention to the larger, more enduring
ramifications of this revolution for radical Islamic revivalism in
the entire Muslim world.
This volume will be of interest to Islamicists, Middle East
historians and specialists, as well as scholars and students of
"liberation theologies," comparative religious revolutions, and
mass collective behavior. Bruce Lawrence of Duke University calls
this volume "a superb and unprecedented study.... In brilliant
figural strokes, he arrays EuroAmerican sociological theory as the
crucial backdrop of a deeper understanding of contemporary Iranian
history."
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