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

Index
loss of support for, 298n83; under
Mossadeq, 73; origin of, 296n47;
strike, 258; support for Khomeini by,
70; White Revolution and, 57
National Iranian Oil Company, 219
nationalism, 101, 227, 228, 229
nationalist revolutions, Iranian Revolution
as different from, 100
national sovereignty and identity, 72, 73
natural resources, Islam on, 206
nature, sexuality and, 290n7
Nazis, religious rituals and, 56
Nazi totalitarianism, Heidegger and, 17
Neauphle-le-Chateau, 70
"negative dialectics," 29
New Testament. See Bible
New York City, September 1 1, 2001, attack
on, 6
Nicaragua, 9, 13, 121, 164, 169, 250
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 151
Nietzsche, Friedrich: on "ascetic priest, "
36; Foucault's writings in tradition
of, 2; on French Revolution, 23;
Nietzschean-Heideggerian discourse,
13; on "noble races: 18; Orientalism
and, 19; "overman" of, 32-33; Plagued
by the West (AI-Ahmad) and, 59; on
self-tormenting, 33; on shame over
cruelty, 24; on Western rationality, 29;
"will to power" and, 14, 35-37
Nietzschean-Heideggerian discourse, 13.
See also Heidegger; Nietzsche
"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" (Foucault),
21-22
Nin, Anais, 286nlO, 290n5
Nobel Peace Prize, 176
Nobel Prize for Literature, 167
non-Muslims in Iran, 64, 78, 86, 91, 92,
274
nonviolence, 237, 241
Le Nouvel ObservateuT, 3, 87. See also specific
articles
Now Rouz (Persian New Year), Muharram
celebrations and, 42
nudity, female, 161
Nuri, Shaikh Fazlullah, 72
Nussbaum, Martha, 154, 292n24
Oberammergau, passion play in, 55, 56
obligations of government, 261-63, 275
Odyssey (Homer), 146
oil industry: historical role of, 220;
Mossadeq overthrow and, 211;
337
nationalization of holdings in, 73; oil
deposits as belonging to all, 206, 258,
297n54; oil potentates in, 228; strike
of workers in, 71, 97, 211, 258; U.S.
policy toward Iran and, 203
Old Testament. See Bible
Omar (Mullah), 158
·On Popular Justice: A Conversation with
Maoists" (Foucault), 248
"Open Letter to Prime Minister Mehdi
Bazargan" (Foucault), 260-63,
271-72, 274
oppression, link with religion and
philosophy, 241 -44
The Order of Things (Foucault), 23-24,
281n9, 283n17, 286-87n14
Orientalism, 17-2 1, 35-36, 39, 99, 125,
142; dualism and, 18, 20, 21, 30-3 1;
and sexuality, 19-20, 30-3 1, 139, 140
Orkan, 228, 299n92
Orthodox Church, 241, 243
Ottomans, as Sunni opponents to Shi'ite
Safavids, 42
Oveisi, Gholam Ali, 2 16, 298n75
"overman, " death and, 32-33
Pahlavi, Ashraf, 198, 295n30
Pahlavi, Gholamreza, 198, 295n30
Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza Shah: abdication
of, 213-14; and Black Friday, 65-
66, 69, 293nn7-8; bodyguards of,
191, 29 3 -94n l O; called Jew by
Khomeini, 58; clampdown on Marxist
groups by, 296-97n52; crisis of
modernization and, 194-98; "dead
weight of modemity" and, 78-81;
departure of from Iran, 103-4; dissent
under, 57, 60; earthquake relief
and, 77; Foucault's discussion of,
78-79; homosexuality of alleged,
161; and human rights, 128, 261,
301n123; intentions of, 58; on Iran