ABSTRACT
Key Themes The main themes of Hamid Dabashi’s Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran are antiWesternism, “Westoxification” (or, in its original Farsi, Gharbzadegi), and the concept of othering. These themes are interlinked, and together they form Dabashi’s broader argument that Iran’s Islamic ideology was formed over several decades, in a dialectical,* or othering, conversation with the West.
