
Theology of Discontent
The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Hamid Dabashi(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 10. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
706 pages
978-1-4128-0516-2 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1131 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-0516-2 (9781412805162)
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Person
Hamid Dabashi is professor of Persian studies at Columbia University. He is the author of, among other works, the acclaimed Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads, issued by Transaction, which won the Association of American Publishers Award for most outstanding professional and scholarly publication in religion and philosophy.
Content
Introduction: Formative Forces of "the Islamic Ideology"; 1: Jalal Al-e Ahmad: The Dawn of "the Islamic Ideology"; 2: Ali Shari'ati: The Islamic Ideologue Par Excellence; 3: Morteza Motahhari: The Chief Ideologue of the Islamic Revolution; 4: Sayyid Mahmud Taleqani: The Father of the Revolution; 5: Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Hossein Tabataba'i: The Philosophical Dimensions of "the Islamic Ideology"; 6: Mehdi Bazargan: The Devout Engineer; 7: Abolhasan Bani-Sadr: The Monotheist Economist; 8: Ayatollah Khomeini: The Theologian of Discontent; Conclusion: Dimensions of "The Islamic Ideology"