Theology of Discontent : Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution in Iran

In this volume, Hamid Dabashi brings together, in a sustained narrative, the leading revolutionaries who shaped the ideological disposition of this cataclysmic upheaval.

Dabashi has spent over 10 years studying the writings, in their original Persian and Arabic, of the most influential Iranian clerics and thinkers and here presents his findings in accessible prose.

Examining the revolutionary sentiments and ideas of such figures as Jalal Al-i Ahmad, Ali Shariati, Murtaza Mutahhari, Sayyid Mahmud Taliqani, Allamah Tebataba'i, Mehdi Bazargan, Sayyid Abu Al-Hasan Bani Sadr, and, finally, Ayatollah Khomeini, the work also analyzes the larger historical and theoretical implications of any construction of "the Islamic Ideology".

Likely to establish Dabashi as one of the leading experts on Islamic thought and ideology, "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 Islamic revivalism in the entire Muslim world.