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

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and humanism, 272; Julliard on, 103;
as lacking in Europe, 87, 90; and laws
of political struggle, 276; martyrdom
discourse and, 50; modem versus
traditional paradox and, 30; nihilism
and, 134; obligations of government
and, 275; 'political will" and, 90;
Revolution as organized around, 4;
Rodinson on, 100, 271, 275-76;
Shi'ite rituals and, 38-39; struggle for
power and, 271; as timeless, 13 1-32
political will, 94-95, 208, 212, 271
politics: Iran as beyond, 98-99; philosoph­
ical approach to, 135, 275-76; radical
Islamist, since 1979, 163-68, 293n3
polygamy, Constitutional Revolution and,
72
polymoxphism, 30, 282n16
Porter, Roy, 282n 13
Portugal, 121, 127, 250, 300n1 l5
Poster, Mark, 138
postmodemism, Iranian discussions of,
173-74
post-structuralism, 281n9
Pottier, Eugene, 24 1 , 299n97
• A Powder Keg Called Islam" (Foucault), 4,
107, 239-4 1
power, 1 4-15, 16, 22, 24, 29, 266, 276
power/knowledge axis, 14, 22, 137, 148
practices of the self, 38, 51-53. See also
technologies of the self
press, physical attack on, 259
·primacy of the spiritual, " 103, 241-45
prisoner support movement, Foucault in, 8
"The Prison-Like Archipelago" (Ganji),
173 -74
propaganda, Islamiyehs and, 78
prostitution, 149, 157
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism (Weber), 299n88
provisional government, 106- 11
psychoanalysis, 188, 283n19. See also
Fanon; Freud; Lacan; Memmi
Qaddafi, Muammar, 193, 23 1 -32, 238
Qajar dynasty, 234
Qolizadeh, Jalil Mamed, 160
Qom, Iran: commemoration for dead of,
339
200; demonstrations in, 58, 65, 111;
Khomeini speech in, 57; killing of
seminarians in, 294n18; martyrdom
of student in, 64-65; as religious
center, 293n 1; Shi'ite shrine in, 42;
sit-in in, 81
Quinby, Lee, 26, 281nlO
Quintillian, Marcus Fabius, 154
Quran: on homosexuality, 143, 144,
156, 159; politics according to, 228;
on spousal relationship, 209-10,
297n6 1; and values of Islam, 270
Quranic law. See Islamic law
Rabinow, Paul, 154, 29 1-92n23
race, 18, 20-2 1
radio, 219, 298n30
Rahman, Sheikh Omar, 166
Ramadan, 46, 216
rape, 160, 166
rationality, Western, critique of, 29
Reagan, Ronald, 163-64, 168; and religious
fundamentalism, 164
reciprocity, 149, 150, 154, 155, 292n23
Red Sea, 55
referendum of 1979, 96, 2 1 2-13
religion, 56, 83, 122-23, 241-44, 250,
25 1. See also religion as • opium of the
people"; specific religions
Religion and Culture: Michel Foucault
(Carrette), 30
religion as ·opium of the people":
Christianity and, 186-87; Marx on,
76, 124, 130, 187, 296n39; as shallow
statement, 201; and spirit of a world
without spirit, 130, 255
religious deconstruction as site of resistance,
174
religious freedom, as touchstone of human
freedom, 103
Renaissance, 26
Republic (Plato), 290n 1 1, 291 n 17
repudiation (easy male divorce), 175, 176
resistance, 15, 85, 130, 173-75
resurgence of Islam, 223-38
revisionism, fundamentalism as, 230, 235