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

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declaration and, 213-14; National
Front leadership of, 70, 296n47;
offer of prime ministership to, 71;
referendum proposal of, 212
Sappho, 150
Sartre, lean-Paul: criticism of unnamed
opponents by, 287n25; existentialism
of, 57; Fanon and, 21; on Foucault and
Mandsm, 281n9; as humanist, 28 1n9;
Memmi and, 21; philosophical
approach to politics and, 135; Plagued
by the West (Al-Ahmad) and, 59;
on "rejection of history, " 99; as
"spokesman of the universal, " 136;
structuralist research and, 188; on
Vietnamese boat people, 8
Satanic Verses (Rushdie) , 164
Saudi Arabia, 92, 93, 100, 165, 168, 172,
209, 223, 231, 238
SAVAK: censorship and, 257; gaze of, 80;
homosexual assault used by, 292n31;
Iran's political options and, 209, 248;
Moghadam as leader of, 203, 296n46;
ruthlessness of, 73; sentencing of
murderer from, 261; strikes and, 217,
218-19; torture and, 132, 263; as U.S.
trained, 73
SAVAMA, 292n3 1
Savonarola, Girolamo, 82, 201, 296n38
Schaub, Ua, 17
Schimmel, Annemarie, 156
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 32
Sebbar, Leila, 115
secular nationalists, women's rights and, 74
secular politics, in Europe since French
Revolution, 3
secular/religious alliance, as paradoxical,
234
secular versus religious law, 72, 73, 100,
234, 236
Sedgwick, Eve, 292n27
self, practices of. See practices of the self
self-consciousness, 188-89
self-flagellation, 54, 284n13; in Muharram
celebration, 44, 47, 53, 54, 216,
284n6
self-mastery and masculinity, 1 52
341
semen, life -giving qualities of, 152, 291 n 18
September 11, 200 1, attacks, 6, 165, 167,
169-72, 173-74
sexism, Foucault's dismissal of, 142
sexuality: changing norms of, 29 1 n20;
Christianity and, 30, 31-32, 146,
291n20; consent and, 154, ISS,
291n21; continuity of discourse on,
144-45; in Foucault's grand narrative,
25; and friendship, 158; health and,
152, ISS, 291n20; under Khomeini
regime, 161-62; Mediterranean,
289nl; moderation in, 145, 151;
nature and, 1 45; OrientaIism and,
19-20, 30-3 1, 139, 140; passivity
and, 145, 151; reciprocity and, 149,
ISO, 154, 292n23; ritual impurity
and, 159; sex as political weapon,
148-49; shariat and, 156; sin and,
144, 145; three-part history of, 31;
tourism and, 140, 141, 161; "true
love" and, 149, 290n12. See also
gay and lesbian activism ; History of
Sexuality; homosexuality; pederasty
Shabastari, Mojtahed, 175
Shafiq, Shahram, 198, 295n30
shahadat. See martyrdom
Shahid-j lavid (Najafabadi), 285n2 1
"The Shah Is a Hundred Years Behind the
Times" (Foucault), 78-81, 194-98
Shahnameh (Persian epic), 45
shah of Iran . See Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza
Shah
Shahr-e Rey, 199
Shakespeare, William, 22
Shamisa, Cyrus, 156
shaTiat, 42, 43, 156, 274. See also Islamic
law
Shariati, Ali: Alavid Shi'ism and, 293n4;
anti-Semitism of, 62; death of, 60,
208; editing and translation of works
of, 301n129; Foucault's comments
on, 76; as invisible Present, 207-8; as
mobilizer of students, 59-61; political
spirituality and, 271; reinterpretation
of martyrdom by, 59, 61-63, 285n2 1;
on roots of Islamism, 40; as translator