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

Index
Iron Guard (Romania), 56
ironside, Edmund, 192, 294n15
irreducibility: of anti-shah movement, 263,
266; of Islamist movement, 15, 85;
meaning of, 296n43; of strength to
oppose state power, 203; usage of
term, 130, 170
Isaac and Abraham, 55
Isfahan, Iran, 200
"Is It Useless to Revolt?" (Foucault),
129-30, 263-67
Islam: authentic, 60-61; compared
to Christianity, 224-26, 237;
disenchantment in, 237; enemies of
Muslims, 228-29; fear of incursion
and, 226; formation of new fo rms
of government and, 244, 300n102;
fundamentalist (see Islamism);
homosexuality and, 143, 144, 155-
62; ideological movements in, 243;
"immobility" of, 82; as instrument of
power, 232; leftist ideology in, 238;
militant, 164, 279n1; nationalism
and, 229-30; as powder keg, 4, 107,
239-41 ; as refuge, 200; religion as
"opium of the people" and, 186;
as resource for resistance, 208;
revisionism in, 230; sexuality in
marriage and, 156; social organization
and, 224-25, 235; values of, 206,
270; Western hatred of, 210. See also
Islamism; shariat; Shi'ism; Sufism;
Sunnism; and other Islamic entries
Islam and Capitalism (Rodinson), 99
Islamic Committees, 273
Islamic fundamentalism, 279n1, 299n86.
See also Islamism
Islamic government: Atoussa H. on,
209; dangers of, 108-9; Foucault's
description of, 89-90; human rights
guaranteed in, 272; as an ideal,
205, 206, 208, 271; limitations
0[, 23 1 -32, 236, 237; meaning of,
206-9, 270, 274; mullah compared to
Roman Tribune, 277; obligations of
government and, 261-63; plebiscite
and, 110; as political wilL 208, 271;
331
reservations about, 81, 83, 90, 91, 92;
Rodinson on, 235-36; Soviet Union
on danger of, 214
"Islamic Government" (Khomeini),
285n22
Islamic law, 100, 210, 231-32. See also
shariat
Islamic movement, global reach of, 107-8
Islamic Republic, prodamation of, 272
Islamic Salvation Front (PIS) of Algeria, 166
Islamism: as alternative to capitalism
and communism, 128; authenticity
argument, 176-77; as "blowback"
from war in Afghanistan, 168; "dash
of civilizations" argument and,
171-72; definition of, 279n1; as form
of archaic fascism, 168; fringe groups
of, 167; Iraq war and, 168; leftists as
supporters of, 200; loss of base by,
167; Marxism and Islam as one and
the same, 63; minimum requirements
of, 235-36; multiple sites of resistance
to, 173-75; neglect of traditional
Muslim rituals in, 40; passions of
shared by Foucault, 39; and politics
since 1979, 163-68; post-September
11 realignment and, 167; as powder
keg, 4, 1 07, 23 9-4 1 ; repudiated in
Algeria, 166; resurgence of, 223-28;
roots of, 39-40; Sadat and, 166-67;
social agenda of, 171; as synthesis,
40; term as alternative to "Islamic
fundamentalism," 279n1, 299n86;
varieties of, 163, 293n1. See also
Shi'ism; Islamic entries
Islamiyeh, village of, 190
Islamiyehs, creation of, 78
"Islam Resurgent? " (Rodinson) , 6, 99,
223-38, 271, 287n24
Isma'il (shah), 42
Israel, 58, 64, 166, 191, 228, 229, 240, 260,
274, 290n4, 296n45. See also Palestine
Ithna Ahshri. See Twelver Shi'ism
/acobin liberalism, 228
/aleh Square (Tehran), 65
/ami (poet), 156