foucault-and-the-iranian-revolution-janet-afary

Index
executions: for communism, 192, 294n17;
for homosexuality, 6, 114, 116, 143,
161, 247; Khalkhali and, 301n128;
mass, of 1979, 133, 272, 273; number
of under Khomeini, 301n128; of
shah's officials, 109; stopped by
Bazargan, 128, 261, 273; of Tudeh
Party members, 192, 294n17; of
women for "adultery, " 165
existentialism, 40, 57, 60
exomologesis, 51-52, 53
L'Express, 127
Fabiola, 52
Family Protection Law, 74, 113, 246
Family Rights Laws, 245
Fanon, Frantz, 21, 169, 207, 285n20,
297n54
Farabi (al-Farabi), 60, 100
Farah Pahlavi (Queen), 292n30
"Fareed," 158-59
fascism: humanism and, 137; Islamism
and, 39, 102, 163, 168, 169;
Khomeinism and, 99-102, 233;
Muslim Brotherhood and, 233;
passion plays and, 55, 56
fashion as site of resistance, 174
Fatima (daughter of Muhammad), 41
fa twa against Salman Rushdie, 164-65
Faubion, James, 8
Fayziyeh Theological Seminary, attack on,
57
Fedayeen Khalq: in anti-shah movement,
64; Bazargan's attacks on, 109;
directions of members in 1970s,
74; newspaper of, 38; Pahlavi's
clampdown on, 296-97n52; political
strike and, 297n67; warning by about
dictatorship, 104; women's rights
demonstrations and, 113
feminism and feminists: Afghanistan
under Karzai and, 165; "clash
of civilizations " argument and,
171-72; Foucault's problematic
relationship with, 5-6, 26-30, 108;
internationalization of, ll5, ll6;
Khomeini's denunciation of, 58;
327
masculinist forms of sexual liberation
and, 282n16; as moderates supponing
Khatami, 172-73; and opposition
to pederasty, 160; on September 11
attacks, 171-72; as site of resistance
to Islamism, 175-76; statement of
Iranian feminists, 182; and support of
veiling. 109; as Western conspiracy,
112
Ferdows, earthquake in, 189, 207
Finkielkraut. Alain, 69
Fischer, Michael, 56, 283n3
Fontaine, Andre, 287n26
"Foucault. Iran, and Responsibility"
(Martin), 120
Foucault. Michel: accurate predictions
about the revolution, 4; affinity with
Iranian Islamists, reasons for, 13,
74-76, 136, 162; aid to individual
Iranians by, 289n13; alternative
fo rms of modernity, 9; on the
body, 14-16, 20-21, 27; Briere
and Blanchet interview of, 121-27,
250-60; centrality of writings on
Iran by, 3-4, 7-8; Communist Party
membership of, 281n9; continuity
in theoretical direction of, 162;
death of, 162; deportation from
Tunisia of, 289n4; on disciplinary
power, IS, 16, 25; ethics of as
"antistrategic, " 267; and feminism,
5-6, 26-30, 108; grand narrative of,
21-26; on history of antiquity, 144;
homosexuality of, 141, 143, 289n4;
on humanism, 301n129; on impact
of the revolution on Muslim world,
4; knowledge/power axis, 14, 22, 1 37,
148; and Marxism, relationship to,
281n9; as mistaken about revolution,
247-49; modem power as creative,
14, 15; near-death experience of,
34; as not entirely uncritical of
revolution, 133; and Orientalism,
17-2 1, 99, 125; original contribution
of, 14-16; overview of Iran writings
of, 181-82; personal and intellectual
crisis of, 138; physical attack on,