ABSTRACT
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini was born on Wednesday, 24 September 1902, in the small village of Khomein some sixty miles south of Tehran. The gradual development of Khomeini's revolutionary career and discourse may be divided into distinct phases, from his pre-1963 political engagements to the penultimate victory of the Revolution on 11 February 1979, to the final establishment of the Islamic Republic on 1 April 1979. In the collection of writings, the essential features of Khomeini's revolutionary discourse, the language of his revolt, and the terms of his discontent are orchestrated in a relentless attempt to mobilize his growing constituency for the final assault against the Iranian monarch. The Iranian monarch emerged victorious and banished the Ayatollah to Turkey and then to Iraq. The price of politics for one's theology of discontent can be as high as it is exacting. For all his moral convictions, and for all his political rectitude, Calvin of Geneva has endured the fair judgment of history.
