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revolt, usefulness of, 263-67
"The Revolt in Iran Spreads on Cassette
Tapes" (Foucault), 96-97, 216-20
"A Revolt with Bare Hands· (Foucault), 94,
210-13
revolution: age of, 264; dangers of religion
in, 244; law of, 265; nature of, five
observations about, 98; paradigms of,
130-33; requirements for, 210-11.
See also Iranian Revolution
Revolutionary Communist League (LCR),
114, 30001 16
Revolutionary Council, 104, 109, 273
Revolutionary Guards, 273
Revolution of the Carnations (Portugal) ,
127
Rex Cinema fire, 298n74
Reza, Ali al-, 1 9 9, 295n32
Reza'i brothers, 216, 298n75
Reza Khan, 72, 192, 196, 294n14. See also
Pahlavi, Reza Shah
Reza Shah . See Pahlavi, Reza Shah
Richard, Yann, 48, 287n24
Richlin, Amy, 144, 146, 282n14, 29 1n19
Risaleh-yi Towzih al-masa'il (Khomeini), 159
rituals ofShi'ism, 38-66; demonstrations of
1978 and, 38-40; Foucault on death
and confession and, 49-54; genealogy
of, 43-46; Iranian Revolution and,
63-66; Karbala paradigm and,
40-43, 63-66; martyrdom and
authenticity and, 57-63; mourning
rituals, 50; political dimensions
of passion plays, 54-56; practices
of the self and, 46-49. See also
Muharram celebration; penitence
rituals; Ta'ziyeh
"rituals of truth,· 14
Robespierre, Maximilien de, 226, 245
Rodinson, Maxime: death of, 287n23;
Hafsia and, 286n10; as ignoring
Foucault's repudiation of humanism,
301n129; knowledge of religion
and, 26 1, 301n124; Le Montle series
of, 287n24; as target of Foucault's
open letter, 275. See also Rodinson's
critiques of Foucault
Index
Rodinson's critiques of Foucault, 99-102,
288n3, 288-89n12; and Foucault's
knowledge gaps, 134-35; full text of,
223-38, 241-45, 267-77; implicit
targeting of Foucault in, 6, 108,
134, 288n3, 299n93-94, 299n97;
Khomeinism as fascism and, 99-105,
168; philosophical approach to
politics and, 136-37
Roman Catholicism, 17, 56
Roman culture. See Greco-Roman world
Romanian fascism, 56
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 75
Towzeh khvani, 43, 48-49, 284n6
Rule of the Jurists, 285n22
Rumi (poet), 156
Rushdie, Salman, 164, 172
Russia: Afghanistan and, 165, 168; and
Bush administration, 168; as enemy
of Muslims, 228; intervention of 1911
by, 72; Iranian military and, 192; Reza
Shah and, 196. See also Soviet Union;
other Russia entries
Russian Revolution of 1905, 72
Russian Revolution of 1917, 132-33
sacrifice for a cause, Foucault's admiration
of, 140-4 1
Sadat, Anwar, 166, 296n45
Saddam Hussein, 168
Sade, Marquis de, 34-35
Sa'di (poet), 156, 157
Safar, month of, 46
Safavid dynasty: institutionalization of
Shi'ism under, 43, 59, 61, 84, 293n3;
sexuality during. 157; spread of
Shi'ism under, 43; Twelver Shi'ism in,
42; ulama influence and, 233
Saffari, Bijan, 292n30
Said, Edward, 8, 116-17, 140, 165, 285n20,
289n4
Saidzadeh, Seyyed Mohsen, 175
Salamatian, Ahmad, 69, 85
Sandino, Augusto, 169
Sanjabi, Karim: approval of "Islamic
government" by, 71; in Bazargan
government, 109; Khomeini's