His [Ali Shariati's] eclectic use of Marx, Freud, Sartre, and Fanon, and his attempt to combine them with elements of Shia faith, allowed him to create an ideology appealing to the intelligentsia and the Iranian middle class. It was part fashionable piety (the way Kabbalah is the spiritual fad of Hollywood) and part facile radicalism.

So much for the Prophet.

I wonder, How the author(s) would summarize an intellectual history of The New Republic, once the literary crock pot of New Deal liberalism?

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.