UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Mystic regimes : an exploration of comparative social development and cultural performance : the .Saf¯i'al¯is¯ah¯i and Sol.t¯an'al¯is¯ah¯i-Ne'matoll¯ah¯i Sufi orders in the Pahlavi Dynasty and the Islamic Republic of Iran van den Bos, M.E.W. Publication date 2000 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): van den Bos, M. E. W. (2000). Mystic regimes : an exploration of comparative social development and cultural performance : the .Saf¯i'al¯is¯ah¯i and Sol.t¯an'al¯is¯ah¯i- Ne'matoll¯ah¯i Sufi orders in the Pahlavi Dynasty and the Islamic Republic of Iran. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). 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UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:01 Oct 2021 INDEX/GLOSSARY A 'are/ ('orafBFarefan, mystics/gnostics): 160-62; 'aba (male sleeveless dress): 151; 207 177; 193; emdm-e 'drefdn (designation for 'Abbas MTrza: 33 Imam'All), 135 asceticism — see zohd accommodation: xiii; xxii; 115; 118; 200; 204; 'ASrird (day of death for Imam Hoseyn, yearly 207; ~ and dress, 148; ~ and performance, mourning ceremony): 116; 117; 147 203: 205; ~ and persecution. 130; ~ and authorisation — see egdze regime religiosity, 110; ~ and resistance, v; ~ authority: 73; 75; 184; 185; 186; 193; 203; - and and state Islam, 151; 189; ~ and state genealogy, xx; ~ and reification, xii; ~ in mysticism, 133; - and state relations, xvii; ~ Usui! doctrine, 29; ~ transmission, 203; and strategy, xiv; ~ in the Islamic Republic, Corbin as figure of- , 12; division of- , 134; 203-5; ~ through closing interpretative space, double - structure, 69; Hidden Imam's - , 158; - to the public transcript, xxiii; 189; ~ 176; highest ~ in Shi'ism (marga'-ye taqlld), versus patronage, 173; silence and ~ , 118 9; Imamic - , 18; irreligious - , 102; jurist - , adab/adab (rules/customs/etiquette): 197; 200 xviii; 27; Khomeyni's ~ , 116; nature of - , Aftab (lodge): 67 53; personalised - , 72; political and religious 'alam-e mesal (the World of Likeness): 15 ~ , 22; representative ~ , 206; royal - , xviii; 'diem (pi. 'olama, religious scholars) — see rulers' - , 33; saintly - , 182; sheikhal - , 163 jurists spiritual authority, iii; iv; v; vii; ix; xiii; 'All (Imam ~ b. Ab! Bleb): 9; 18; 59; 140; 144; xvi; xvii; xviii; xix; xx; xxi; xxii; xxiii; 12; 17; 22; 30; 40; 45; 46; 51; 53; 54; 69; 73; 74; 148; ~ and asceticism, 139; ~ and Sufi 75; 77; 106; 127; 134; 142; 146; 149; 158; authority, 149; ~ as friend of God, 18; - in 160; 163; 167; 178; 179; 180; 181; 182; 183; Safi'alisahï religiosity, 144; ~ 's instructions 184; 185; 186; 193; 194; 201; 206; - and to Malik al-Astar, 83: birthday celebrations of egdze, 127; - and financial morality, xx; - ~, 115; mystic conception of ~ , xiii and worldly gain, xx; - as mediation of sacred Althusser, Louis: 84; 171 texts and personalities, xx; - as scarce good, ambivalence (Sufi negation of- ): 207 xxi; ~ monopolisation, xxi; - structures, 175; 'ammdma (turban): 151 alternative - , 142; competition for - , iii; anthropology: iii; xx; 24; 26; 40; ~ and civil conceptions of - , 17; 18; contestations of - , society, 188; ~ and objectivity, 5; ~ and 17; covert - , 134; division of - , 158; dreams power/meaning divide, iv; ~ of Islam, iii; xiv; and - , 177; exclusive and charismatic - , 46; xxii; ~ of religion, iii; xii; xix; Islamic ~ , exclusive realm of - , xxiv; formal - , xvi; 202; spiritual ~ , 9; Sufism and 'erfan as ~ , Imamic - , 18; Islamic - , xx; royal 194; symbolic ~ , iii; 11 component in - , 180; <Safï'alïsah>'s - , 143; sovereign - , 134; struggle for/conflicts about antinomian(s): 20; ~ and 'erfan, 23; ~ and patronage, 23; ~ and state regimes, 20; ~ - , xxii; Sufi masters as embodiments of - , dissolving Sufism as unitary object, 19 xii; Sufi Path and - , xxi Aqevli, Faragollah: 71; 75; 90; 91; 92 — state - , xxv; 133, 167; textual - , 177; traditional - structure, 73; worldly - , 102 'aql (reason): 154; 196 axe — see tabarzin arba'In (fortieth-day ritual after Imam Hoseyn's axis/pole — see qotb demise), 205 241 242 MYSTIC REGIMES 'azadarl (general term for mourning authority, xxii; ~ between Islamists and Sufis, ceremonies): 117; 118 12; ~ between Sufis and Shi'ites, 23; - over B succession, 60; ~ resolution, 118; ~ with Bahman, Ahmad Shah: 27; 35 Islamic reform movements, 36; ~ with jurists, Barth, Karl: 8 30; avoidance of ~ , 154; challenges Basigg (volunteer/mobilisation); ~ survivor: 137; materialising in ~ , xx; cultural performance 138; 139; 150 and ~ , vi; interpretation of- , 17; Safï'alïsahï baten (the inner/esoteric): 175; 181; 200 ~ , 61; Safi'allsahï-Soltan'alïsahï ~ , 59; Shah ba-fat (initiation/allegiance): 18; 149 Ne'matollah's ~ , 27; social (state) drama and c bed'at (illegitimate innovation): 20; 111 ~ , viii; <Soltan alisah>'s ~ , 48; source of ~ , Behbehani, Aqa Mohammad 'All: 29; 30; 31 127 Besarat, HOsang: 6 congregation (Sufi ~ ) — see magles Bibliothèque Nationale: 5 Corbin, Henry: xxi; xxii; 3-15; 17; 111 (Bïnes'alïsah), Mohammad Han Entezam as- customs — see adab/dddb Saltane ~ : 62, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73; 75, 89, 91, covenant — see tagdid-e ahd 92 D Bonyad-e Mowlavl: 84 Dabashi, Hamid: 10 Borügerdï, ayatollah: 9, 10 Darrüdl, Iran: 80 büq (hom): 140 Davarl, Reza: 14 development: x; xii; xxii; xxiv; 7; 78; 92; 96; C 142; 169; 173; 180; 199 Cahardahï, Nüreddïn Modanresï: 51; 52; 72 developmental: ~ logic, viii; - perspec­ chest beating — see sïne-zanï tive, 190 christologie: 9 civil: xxiii; xxv; 51; 70; 94; 97; 106; 167; 168; — national ~ , vi; notion of ~ , ix: political ~ , iii; xx; 8; social ~ , iii; viii; ix; x; xxi; xxii; 169; 170; 172; 173; 175; 177; 178; 179; 182; xxiv; 26, 40; 167; 174 186; 188; 189; 195; 200; 206; ~ integration, dialogue: xxiv; 167; absence of- : 185-86 96; ~ public space, 190; ~ public sphere, 189; disciple (Sufi - ) — see morid ~ servant/service, 94; ~ society — see chapter discipline (self- - ) — see reyazat 7; xxiv; ~ subjects, 97; ~ thought, xxiv dissimulation — see taqlya civilian(s): 190; ~ clothes, xv; ~ divine sphere/self — see lahüt population, 120; proto-~, 195 Dostoyevsky: 81 civilisation: 8; dress (Sufi - ) — see kafan civility, xxv; 188; 195; 196; 204; 206; 207 E collective: 203; ~ fantasies, xii; ~ Sufi Eastern spirituality: 13 conceptions of the self, 185; ~ Sufi memory, 'ebddat (worship): 139 136; 150 ecumenicalism: 9; 113 (con)figurations: v; xxii; 40; definition of ~ , xix; egaze (authorisation, mostly written declaration figurational changes, 32; nineteenth century - of a Sufi's right to replace his master or of , 27; post-war elite ~ , 84; social ~ , 110; spreading his teachings): 97; 126; 127; 128; trilateral -, 33 146; - ye-eridd (authorisation of conflict: vi; viii; x; xi; xix; xx; xxi; xiii; 40; 49; guiding/teaching), 50 69; 87; 106; 122; 193; ~ about spiritual Egypt: 171 INDEX/G OSSARY 243 Entezam, 'Abdollah (da'edrnMbdollah Azade): Fardïd, Ahmad: 13 14 93; 94; 95 Foucault, Michel: xiii; 6; 7; 190 'erfan: 192 — see 'arefl'orafa; ~ and 'orfan France: 7 (civil law), 175; ~ and regime religiosity, 176; Franco: 77 ~ and Sufism, 194; ~ as gnostic mysticism, Freemason/Freemasonry: 91; 98; 145; ~ and civil 17; ~ criticism of antinomians, 23; - in society, 195; ~ and public space, 195; ~ and Iranian culture, 178; ~ instruction, 158; - is royal chauvinism, 44; ~ conceptions of the truth, 177; ~ music, 134; ~ name (Book of spiritual authority, 106; ~ lodges, 94; - Mysticism), 52; - versus Sufism, 157; reputations, xxiii; Nasrollah Saqavi, 87; Khomeyni's ~ , 133; martyr's ~ , 138; SAVAK report on ~ , 88; Shi'ite ~ , 90; Sufism moqtadd-ye 'alam-e ~ (leader of the mystical and ~ , 65-75; (Zahlr od-Dowle> as a ~ , 148 world), 135; new perspective on ~ , 93; G revolutionary ~ , 138; teacher of ~ , 111; Gebhe-ye melll (National Front): 123 traditionally narrow conception of ~ , 195 Geertz, Clifford: iii; xvii; 11 esoteric — see baten genealogies: xviii; 60; 62; 73; ~ and historical 'eSq (love): 154; 196; maqam-e 'SSeqi (station of continuity, 145; ~ as guarantors of authority, love), 193 xx; narration of- , 142; Safi'allsahl ~ , 87 eSraq (Oriental gnosis/mysticism): 17 glasnost, Iranian — : 169 etiquette — see adab/dddb gnosis: 9 exegesis/interpretation — see tafsir GonabadI: 47 — see SoltancalIsahI (-Ne'ma- exoteric — see zaher tollahl order) exploration: iii; x; xxi; ~ of accommodation, Grand Orient (French Grand Lodge): 67 115; ~ of civil society, 188; ~ of comparative greeting — see mosafaha social development and cultural performance, guidance/friendship with God — see walayat xxiv; ~ of power's conditioning by meaning, xii; - vis-a-vis unknown research field, ix; H Corbin's ~ of Shi'ism, 6; mystical - , xxi; Habermas, Jiirgen: 189; 190; 194; 195; 196 SorOs's ~ of religiosity, 193 halwat