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Shariati, Ali (continued)
of Fanon, 297n56; Western thought
and, 62; youth following of, 74
Shariatrnadari, Ayatollah Kazem: on
awaiting the Twelfth Imam, 83, 201,
205-6; Committee for the Defense
of Freedom and Human Rights
and, 81, 89, 206; day of mourning
declared by, 71; Foucault's contacts
with, 74, 81, 83, 295n3 1; home of
broken into, 64-65; house arrest of,
81; interview at home of, 260-61;
liberal inteIpretations regarding. 270;
on minority religions and women's
equality, 286n1 1; as moderate and
pro-constitutionalist, 64; objection
to Khomeini's repression by, 1 33;
reservations of aboui Islamic republic.
8 1, 83
Shariatrnadari, Hasan, 81
Sharif-Imami, Ja'far, 70, 71, 96, 216
Shaygan, Ali, 110
Sherkat, Shahla, 176
Shi'ism: Alavid, 186, 293n4; anti­
imperialism and, 163; basis fo r
clerical authority in, 202, 205; Battle
of Karbala commemorated in, 1;
clerical hierarchy in, 205; conversion
of Iran to, 225; cycles ofrevelation
in, 205; death in worldview of.
50; defending the community of
believers, 202; as dominant religion in
Iran, 201; exoteric form and esoteric
content of, 259; imams in, 2 88nl;
invisible Present in, 207; in Iraq,
168; as irreducible force, 84-85; in
Islamist synthesis, 40; as language of
mass discontent, 84; mass suppon
fo r Islamic politics and, 88; origins
of. 40, 190; oscillations of, 202;
political mobilization and, 202-3;
preservation of hierarchies and, 84;
Qom, Iran, and, 293n1; religion as
"o pium of the people" and, 1 86,
201; sacred texts of, 20 1; Safavid,
186, 293n3; sexuality and, 159 -60;
'Shi'ism of Ali" and 'Safavid Shi'ism,"
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61; as spirit of a world without spirit,
255; spread of under Majlisi, 43;
Sunni/Shi'ite conflict and, 42, 59,
274; SunnifShi'ite contrast and, 102;
teachings of, 41; as timeless, 123;
ulama influence in, 233, 236; Usuli
principles of, 285n22; Zoroastrianism
in, 35. See also Islamism; rituals of
Shi'ism; Safavid dynasty; Twelver
Shi'ism
Shiraz festival, Ta'ziyeh and, 46
Shiraz, Iran, demonstrations in, 58
Shrine ofImam Reza, shooting of protesters
at, 71
Shuster, Morgan, 116
Signore!, Simone, 8
silence, 19-20, 280n3
sin, 51, 53, 155, 159
sinehzani. See self-flagellation
singularity and difference, within Iran
versus between Iran and West. 95
singularity of Iranian Revolution, 241
Siyavosh, story of, 45
skepticism, among educated classes, 100
slave trade, 166
Slovak fascism, 56
socialism, 75, 229
Socialist Party, 250
social order, ethical, human needs in,
292n24
Socrates, 290n12
Solidamosc, 8, 13, 56
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 103, 173, 24 1
Soper, Kate, 27-28, 282n14
South Africa, 26 1
Soviet Union: Mghanistan and, 165, 168;
Cold War position of Iran and, 203;
Communist Party and, 220-2 1;
on danger of Islamic government,
214; defeat of Russian Orthodoxy
in, 243; leftist romanticization of
authoritarian politics and, 5; Marxist
"gesticulation" in, 231; Middle East
influence of, 203; Muhammad Reza
Shah Pahlavi, and, 192, 294n17;
Rodinson's illusions about. 135, 277;
Solzhenitsyn's critique of. 103, 173