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Theology of Discontent - The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (Hardcover)
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Theology of Discontent - The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (Hardcover)
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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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