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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18729-0 — Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: the Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid Ali Mirsepassi Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18729-0 — Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid Ali Mirsepassi Index More Information Index absolute truth, 233 Arendt, Hannah, 123 Achaemenid nationalism, 54–55 Aristotelian philosophy, 103–104 Adkhavan-Sales, Mehdi, 57 art, as part of metaphysics, 285–286 Adorno, Theodor, 142–143, 193–194, Asad, Talal, 156–157, 164–165, 252 212–213 critique of authenticity, 194 Ashouri, Dariush, 153, 310, Afary, Janet, 169–171, 184 325, 344 al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din, 38–39 Atashi, Manouchehr, 295 Afshar, Iraj, 149 Ataturk, Kemal, 25–26 agency, validity of, 351 authenticity Ahmad, Jalal Al-e, 49, 50–51, 270, Adorno on, 194 276, 311, 333 Iqbal on, 27–28, 32 Akhundzadeh, Mirza Fath-Ali, 52–53 of Iranian culture, 52–55 Alavi, Bozorg, 44 of Islam, 18–19, 21, 27–28, 32, Albert the Great, 103–104 91–92, 158–160 Almond, Ian, 169 authoritarianism, 9–10 alternative Iran, 121–122 autonomy of religion, 214 Amanat, Abbas, 41, 109, 310 Avicenna, 18, 103, 244, 250–251 Amoli, Seyyed Haydar, 312–313 Anderson, Kevin, 170, 171, 184 Babism, 36, 38 Anglo-Persian agreement, 5 Baghai, Mozaffar, 70 anti-Enlightenment, 133, 136 Bahar, Mohammad Taghi, 44 anti-modernism, 318, 347 Bani Sadr, Abolhassan, 263, 292 Islamist discourse influenced by, 348 Barrès, Maurice, 139 anti-Orientalism, 186–187, 273–277 Bases scientifiques d’une philosophie anti-rationalism, 18 de l’histoire (Le Bon), 275 anti-Semitism, 122 Bataille, Georges, 112, 188, 197–199 Dreyfus Affair and, 122–123 sacred sociology, 199 of Fardid, 344 Bayat, Mangol, 41 anti-Western attitudes, among Iranian Bazargan, Mehdi, 168 intellectuals, 49, 50, 51–52. See Havalat-e Tarikhi argument against, also Westoxification 299 Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas Beaulieu, Alain, 169 al-Arabi, 135 Being, for Heidegger, 202–203, Arani, Taghi, 44, 79–80, 348–349 235–236 Donya, 80 Being and Nothingness on erfan, 81 (Sartre), 208 The Archaeology of Knowledge Being and Time (Heidegger), 112, (Foucault), 196 133–134, 302 Aref, 52–53 Bendix, Reinhard, 51 383 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18729-0 — Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid Ali Mirsepassi Index More Information 384 Index Bergman, Ingmar, 22 Constitutional movement. See Bergson, Henri, 11–12, 74, 85 Mashruteh movement Arani on, 79–80 Constitutional Revolution, 4, 34, critique of positivism, 93 281–284 Elm-e Hozuri and, 94–100 double Westoxification and, 282 Fardid and, 77–78, 88–94, 248–253, external influences on, 4–5 254 Fardid on, 5–6 Forughi on, 85 French Revolution as influence on, intuition for, 86–87, 94–96, 110, 283 231 German Enlightenment tradition Iqbal influenced by, 25 and, 118 mysticism for, 249, 250 nationalist movement and, 5–6 Rashid-Yasemi on, 84 Russian Social Democracy and, 35 Vojud-e Dahri and, 101 Shi’a radicalism and, 35 Westoxification of, 249 Western liberalism and, 35 Bergson, Henri, works of Constitutionalism, 282 Creative Evolution, 84, 85–88, Corbet, Gustave, 125 98–99 Corbin, Henry, 11, 12, 34, 100, 114 Matter and Memory, 85–88, on alternative Iran, 121–122 98–99 anti-Enlightenment visions, 133, 136 Time and Free Will, 84, 85–88, 94 anti-Semitism and, 122 The Two Sources of Morality and apolitical life of, 118–119 Religion, 81–82, 85–88 on causality, 206 Bergsonian shock, 109 critique of, 117 Berman, Marshall, 40 on demystification of real world, bin Laden, Osama, 221–222 193–194 Iranian Revolution (1978) influence Dreyfus Affair and, 122–123 on, 7 early life of, 122 The Blind Owl (Hedayat), 54, 67 on empirical knowledge, 204–208 Bloch, Ernst, 202 self-creation over, 194–197 Boehme, Jacob, 105–106, 125 Fardid influenced by, 68–69, 73–74, Boroujerdi (Ayatollah), 7 102–103, 111–116, 119–122, Bourke, Jason, 302 139–143, 248–253, 308, 319 Brecht, Bertolt, 46–47 Foucault and, 187 Burroughs, William S., 187 Heidegger as influence on, 112, Bush, George W., 272 119–122, 133–137, 190 hermeneutics for, 135–136 Camus, Albert, 46–47 on hermeneutics of religions, 120 capitalism. See liberal capitalism Hurqalya and, 132, 136 causality, 206 in Iran, 134 censorship, 292 Iranian philosophy influenced by, censorship, of intellectuals, 47 141 Chatterjee, Partha, 212–213, 224 as Iranophile scholar, 117, 142–143 Chevalier, Jacques, 92 Islamic legalism and, 191–192 Chubak, Said, 44 on mapping of the imaginal, 124, colonialism, 51 125–128 academic denunciation of, 350 Mellon as patron of, 116 Confederation of Iranian on modernity, 140 Students, 46 on monotheism, 124 conformism, in academia, 351 on Muslim spirituality, 114–115 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18729-0 — Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid Ali Mirsepassi Index More Information Index 385 as mystic, 218 Davari, Reza, 153, 270, 294 on mystical unconscious, 201–204 death of man. See man, death of on mysticism, 112–114 death of the ego. See fana intellectual traditions of, 192–193 Debray, Régis, 46 Nietzsche as influence on, 121 decadent mysticism, 27 Orientalist tradition of, 118–119 “Delam Bara-ye Baghcheh Misuzad” Pahlavi and, 116 (Farrokhzad), 58 philosophy for, development of, Delcassé, Théophile, 123 128–133 democracy as alternative to the academic denunciations of, 350 Enlightenment, 131–132 Fardid’s critique of, 286–287 as Platonist, 129–130 in Iran, 282 political Islam and, 13 Islam and, 6, 241 post-metaphysical other for, demystification 137–139 classical sociologists on, 193–194 privileging of mythical over defined, 193 empirical thought, 119–122 Descartes, René, 106, 125 prophetic philosophy, 204 Dewey, John, 74 reconciliation theory, 140 Fardid influenced by, 77 rejection of modernity by, 115 dialectic, 296 on the secular, 122–125 Diruz. See yesterday on self-creation over knowledge, The Divine Encounter and Apocalyptic 194–197 Revelations (Fardid), 222–223 Sohrawardî as influence on, 124, Donya, 80 125–128, 129, 130 double Westoxification, 275–276 spiritual Shi’ism for, 15, 78, 168, Constitutional Revolution 191 and, 282 on Sufi heritage, 134 Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud, 58 Western influences on, critiques of, dreams, 221 297 Dreyfus, Hubert, 213 on Zoroastrianism, 102–103 Dreyfus Affair, 233–234 cosmopolitanism, modernity and Drumont, Eduoard, 139 Mashruteh movement and, 42–43 Dugin, Alexander, 347 transformation of local institutions Durkheim, Émile, 137–138, 255, 256 as part of, 40 demystification of reality for, counter-Enlightenment 193–194 German, 10 Fardid’s critique of, 256 Heidegger on, 23–24, 133–134 Dustdar, Aramesh, 75 Creative Evolution (Bergson), 84, 85, 98–99 Al-e Ahmad, Jalal, 44 creativity. See the imaginal; self- Eastern Spirituality, 9, 300–301 creation construction of, 14–15 critique, validity of, 351 humanism and, 241–242 Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 28 Westoxification and, 20 The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Echkart, Meister, 104–105, 310, Mind (Le Bon), xii, 75 312–313 unity of existence, 105 Daneshvar, Simin, 49 Eliade, Mircea, 137 Darvishian, Ali Ashraf, 57–58 elm al-asma (knowledge of signs), 226. Dasein, 154, 157, 205, 235 See also etymology © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18729-0 — Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid Ali Mirsepassi Index More Information 386 Index elm-e hozuri (intuitive knowledge), 18, anti-rationalism of, 18 94–100, 110, 230–234. See also anti-Semitism of, 344 intuition on authentic Islam, 18–19, 21, in Bergson works, 94, 100 27–28, 32, 91–92, 158–160 defined, 94 authoritarian attitude of, 9–10 Emami, Sa’d, 272 Bergson and, 77–78, 88–94, empirical knowledge. See knowledge, 248–253, 254 empirical on causality, 206 Emruz. See today on censorship, 292 Engebert, Ulrich, 103–104 class analysis by, 298–299 Engineer, Asghar Ali, 29, 31 on cleansing of Islam, 21 the Enlightenment. See also anti- conspiracy theories of, 331–332 Enlightenment; counter- on Constitutional Revolution, 5–6 Enlightenment; modernity Corbin as influence on, 68–69, alternatives to, 131–132 73–74, 102–103, 111–116, Foucault rejection of, 186 119–122, 139–143, 248–253, French tradition of, 136 308, 319 German tradition of, 106, 107, 118 as creative person, 334 Universal Referents and, 180 critical observations about, 307–308 Eranos conferences, 137 critique of democracy, 286–287 erfan-e nazari (speculative mysticism), critique of human sciences, 253–257 81, 112, 137. See also Sufism critique of humanism, 160, 166, Ergriffenheit (primal ontic seizure), 205, 241–244 209–210 critique of Iranian intellectuals, Eshghi, Mirzadeh, 52–53 291–297 Eslam, Fada’iyan-e, 294–295 critique of liberalism, 262 Esm Shanasi, 155 critique of Orientalist tradition, 153, esotericism, 254 163 eternal existence. See vojud-e dahri critique of Western thought, 141, etymology, 223–230 157–159 in critique of Western philosophy, on cultural revolution, benefits of, 225–226 248 Westoxification and, 227–228 on death of God, 242 Europe defense of dogmatism, 257–262 Confederation of Iranian Students on democracy in conflict with Islam, in, 46 6, 241 Fardid in, 147–151, 313 on demystification of real world, 193–194 Fada’iyan-e Eslam, 265–266 on dialectic, 296 fall of Mosaddegh, 307 difficulty in understanding, fana (death of the ego), 208 333–334, 335 Al-Farabi, 18, 244 division of history for, 236, 239 Farah (Queen), 264 Durkheim critiqued by, 256–257 Farda. See tomorrow early years of, 71–74
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