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

33 2
Japan, 18, 103, 168, 280n7
Jesus Christ: Christian revisionism and,
230; as divine, 285n17; madness and
death and, 34; meaning of crucifixion
of, 62; nonviolent anarchism of, 237;
passion plays and, 55-56; shaping of
sodal order and, 225
jihad, 43, 59, 61
Joan of Are, 232
John Paul II (Pope), 103
Judaism: Christian fear of incursion and,
226; and fundamentalism, . 2 79nl;
homosexuality and, 155; Nasserist
nationalism and, 228; Orthodox,
symbolism of, 236; rituals in, 44,
45; sexuality in marriage and, 156;
social protest and, 244. See also
anti-Semitism; Israel
Julian, 242, 299n99
JuIliard, Jacques, 102-3, 1 08, 24 1 -42
juridical liberties, of French Revolution,
1 5-16
Kabul, Afghanistan, 1 65
Kafka, Franz, 59
Kandahar; Afghanistan, 157, 158-59,
292n28
Kant, Immanuel. 16, 75, 137
Kar, Mehrangiz, 176, 293n5
Karbala, battle of: account of, 40-4 1;
Black Friday Massacre and, 65;
Karbala paradigm and, 40-43, 63-66;
reinterpretation of, 60-62, 64; struggle
against shah as reenactment of, 1, 35,
49, 57; three-part commemoration
of, 43-44. See also Muharram
celebration
Karbala, Iraq, Shi'ite shrine in, 42
Karzai, Hamid, 158, 1 65
Kashan, Iran, demonstrations in, 58
Kashani, Ayatollah Abulqasem, 78, 84,
296n42
Kashefi, Va'ez, 284n5
Kash! al-Asrar (Khomeini), 73
Keating, Craig. 280n7
Keddie, Nikki, 102, 23 3, 287-88n27
Kellner, Douglas, 137
Index
Kemal. Mustafa (Ataturk), 73, 78-79, 196,
295n26
Kenya, 161
Kepel, GiIIes, 293nl
Khalkhali, Sadeq, 134-35, 269, 301n128
Khamenei, Ayatollah Ali, 173
Khatami, Mahmoud, 173
Khatami, Muhammad, 172-73
Khayami, Ahmad, 216, 298n75
Khayami, Mahmoud, 216, 2 98n75
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah: anti-
imperialist discourse of, 65-66;
anti-Semitism and, 58; assumption
of leadership of Islamist opposition
by, 63, 71; assumption of state power
by, 1-2, 106-11; BBC interview
of, 86; Black Friday Massacre and,
65-66; breakdown of Pahlavi regime
and, 71-72; charisma of, 267, 269;
Clark announcement about, 104;
compared to other great leaders,
245; compared to Torquemada, 272;
on Constitution of 1906-7, 86; as
consummate political leader, 98;
critics of silenced, 274; death of, 276;
execution of shah's officials under,
109; exile of, 58, 70, 222, 295n24;
Foucault's meeting with, 85-86; on
government by clerics, 270; Ha'yat
cells and, 287n18; hostility of toward
opponents, 86, 286n 1 3; as imam, 64,
106, 273, 302n132; on immediate
establishment of Islamic government,
83; international criticism of, 63-64;
on Islamic government, 285n22; as
king and saint, 204; levels of thought
about, 251-52; love for, 9 7, 222,
273, 274, 287n20; Mao compared
to, 123, 253; and modernity, 39; as
mythical figure or Mahdi, 1, 35, 41,
57, 222, 288nl; and political parties,
212-13; predictions about rule of,
106; provisional government and,
106-11; on religion as ·opium of
the people, " 76; repression under,
109-11, 117-19, 276-77, 301n128;
Revolutionary Council and, 273; Reza