Index
Abumoslem Khorasani
94, 122
Adab, Bahaoddin
61
Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP)
40
Afghanistan
and Iranian Sunnis
42, 50–53, 55, 78, 103, 132, 156
Ethnic groups
26–28
Migrants from
105, 107
Mujahedin
54
Sunni Madrasa
50, 139
Soviet war
43n75, 46, 53–54, 59
Ahl-e beyt
109–110, 117, 122, 172, 182, 184
Ahl-e haqq
55
Ahmad-e Jam, Molana
49–51
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
39, 47, 79, 80, 88, 112, 139, 150, 155, 160, 170
Ahmad Shah Masud
28
Ahnaf-e Khwaf Madrasa, Khwaf
51
Ahrar, Khwaja Ghawsodin
52
Ahrari, Khwaja Mohioddin
51
Ahrari, Khwaja Sadrodin
52
Alamolhoda, Ahmad
85, 88, 105–108
Al-Ansari, Jabir ibn Abd Allah
51
Al-Azhar University, Cairo
89
Al-Banna, Hasan
89
Al-Hasan, Mofti Mahmud
151–152, 177
Alibayi, Molana Gholam Ahmad
54
Al-Khoei Foundation
102
Al-Mustafa International University
40
Al-Qaeda
110, 113, 124, 183
Amini, Hasan
60, 129–130, 135–136, 139, 144–145, 147, 155–156, 167–169, 181–182, 184–185, 191
Amir Teymur, Mohammad Ebrahim
49–50
Amnesty International
148
Anvarololum Madrasa, Khayrabad
54–55
Anvarolharameyn Madrasa, Pashamag
154, 189
Arab
1, 141, 163
Ardebil
153
Aref, Mohammadreza
159
Asgaroladi, Habibollah
155
Assembly of Experts
65, 158
Astan-e Qods-e Razavi
85–86, 88, 96, 105, 108–109, 146n4
Azari
87
Babai, Aziz
153–154
Baluchistan, Iran
33, 40, 41–46, 50, 54, 97, 103, 105, 113, 131, 139, 147–148, 154, 159–160, 188.
Sistan-Baluchistan
Baluchi language
28, 33, 42
Bandar-e Abbas
147
Basij
106n, 109, 150
Bazargan, Mehdi
57, 110, 123
Birjand
52n
Bokhari, Shah Ata-Allah
177
Border
and cross-border activities
29, 46, 77, 140, 143, 160, 170–171
and ethnicity
33
Disadvantage
39, 160, 182, 187
Ideology
35, 181, 102, 140
Security
1, 37, 93–94, 102–103, 119, 150
Smuggling
161–164, 182
Tribal groups
33, 42–43
Borujerdi, Seyyed Hossein
89
Capotorti, Francesco
63
Central Asia
24–25, 50–51, 131
Chabahar
44–45, 133, 147
Chain Murders (1988–1998)
86, 147–148
China
23–26
Christchurch (mosque shooting)
147, 181
Christian
19, 21, 37, 65, 69, 171
Citizen’s Charter of Rights
41, 72–74, 76, 179, 189
Colonial Rule
22–23
Congress of Berlin
21–22
Constitution, Islamic Republic
63–65, 71–72, 140, 156–157
Constitutional Revolution
32–33, 63, 65
Corruption
96–98, 120, 149, 159, 161, 173–174
Critical discourse analysis
8–9, 179
Damani, Molavi Mohammadebrahim
154
Damani, Molavi Mohammadosman
154
Dar al-Taqrib
89–90, 132
Dehvari, Ali
148
Delhi
51
Democracy
38–39, 62, 110, 145, 158, 171, 185
Democratic Party of Kurdistan – Iran (KDPI)
56–57
Deoband School
30, 42–44, 49–51, 77, 107, 135, 139, 140, 143, 151–152, 183–184
Derrida, Jacques
4
Dialogue
39, 41, 75, 77, 93, 135, 142, 166, 181, 184
Didgah, Molavi Nazar-Mohammad
58
Egypt
23–24, 78, 89–90
Esmailzayi, Molana Abdolhamid
41, 46–48, 84, 108, 128–129, 135–138, 144, 151, 153, 165–167, 181–184, 189, 191
Ethnicity
1–2, 12–13, 27–28, 34–36, 40–41, 49, 59, 64–65, 68, 72–73, 77, 92–93, 136, 157, 181
Evin prison, Tehran
148
Ezzatyar, Ali
185
Farsad, Faruq
147
Fazeli, Molana Abdolali
53
Fazeli, Molana Haj Qazi Fazel
53
Fazeli, Molana Mohammad-Said
53–54
Feqhi, Molavi Behzad
54, 131–132, 139–143, 158–161, 171–175, 181, 183, 185, 191
Feqhi, Molavi Serajoddin
131–132
Feqhi, Qazi Jalaloddin
132
Foucault, Michel
3
Fragner, Bert
31, 46
Freedom
41, 67, 71, 73, 77, 138, 145, 181
Gallie, Walter
179
Gazik
53
Green Movement
84, 88, 111–112, 124, 128, 130n8, 160–161, 182
Guardian Council
61, 157–158, 168
Habsburg Monarchy
20, 22
Hafez (poet)
135, 168
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
27, 59
Herat
51, 53–54
Hezbollahi (political current/culture Iran)
39
Hosayni, Mamusta Ezzod-din
46, 56–57
Hudaybiyyah (Peace treaty)
137–138, 183
Huntington, Samuel
186
Imam Bukhari Madrasa, Sanandaj
130
India
27–30, 37, 44, 50, 151
Intelligence services
99, 117, 183
International Bill of Human Rights
36
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR)
36
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
36
Iranian Sunnis
Ambassadors
42, 169–170
and IRGC
38, 56, 57, 97n26, 150
and Reza Shah
34
and Zekris
42–43
Border areas
37, 15, 150
Confessional identity
1
Deoband School
30, 42–44, 46, 49, 107, 139, 188
Elections
41, 47, 49, 62, 96, 112, 158, 163, 188
Madrasa
35, 40, 44–45, 48, 50–52, 54–55, 96, 128–129, 139, 152, 155–156, 188, 18, 189
Parliament members
60–61, 131, 139, 147
Population
2n2, 30, 55, 105–107, 168–170, 188
Security view
70–71, 79, 105–107, 157, 180, 184, 191
State intervention
40, 155–156
Urbanisation
50, 98, 105
Women
10, 46, 50, 53, 128–129, 163
Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)
37, 46, 92, 120, 159–160, 182
Iraq
13, 23, 79, 90, 157
Islamic Revolution (1979)
29, 36–37, 39–40, 46, 53, 56, 58, 60, 62, 84, 92, 97–98, 110, 114, 123, 146, 148, 152, 182, 184, 191
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
38, 56, 109, 150, 168
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
61, 102, 110, 113, 121, 124
Islamophobia
102, 121, 174, 181, 191
Israel
23, 99, 117, 136–137, 142, 167, 188
Jahanabadi, Jalil Rahimi
88, 154n37
Jajrudi, Molana Abd al-Ghani
128
Jalalizade, Jalal
61–62, 130–131, 145, 157–158, 160, 169–171, 181, 184–185, 191
Jamaat-e Islami
57
Jamaat-e tabligh (in Urdu: tablighi jamaat)
30, 44–45, 51, 140, 188
Jame al-harameyn al-sharifeyn Madrasa, Chabahar
45
Jamiyat al-ulama-i hind
43–44
Jangizayi, Molavi Mostafa
150–151
Jihad
46, 166, 182, 191
Jeysholadl
103
Jondollah
103, 150
Kandhalawi, Muhammad-Iliyas
45, 51, 53
Kani, Mohammadreza Mahdavi
155
Karimdadi, Molana Hasan
54
Karrubi, Mehdi
47, 112–113, 158
Katzenstein, J. Peter
15n50, 186
Khebat
56
Khamenei, Ali
38, 39, 46, 57, 84–85, 87, 89–91, 95, 96, 100–101, 108, 111, 122, 132, 143, 150, 181, 183–184, 191
Khatami, Mohammad
38–39, 70, 80, 86, 112, 131, 157, 170, 183
Khatm-e sahih-e bokhari (ceremony)
130, 138–139
Khayrabad
54–55
Khomeini, Ruhollah
36, 39, 46, 56–7, 64, 70, 89, 97, 110, 124, 149, 155
Khorasan, Iran
34, 49–55, 94–95, 104–105, 122, 131–132, 139, 141
Khuzestan, Iran
37
Khwaf
49–51
Komalah
56
Kuhi, Molavi Fazlorrahman
97n26, 154, 189
Kulbar
161–162, 170
Kurdish Islamic Link
59
Kurdish language
56, 170
Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)
56–57
Kurdish United Front (JMK)
61–62, 131, 145, 158, 160
Kurdistan, Iran
37, 47, 55–62, 84, 113, 120, 129–130, 147–148, 159–160
Kurdistan, Iraq
157
Kurmanji
55
Larijani, Ali
114
Lashkar-i janggi
103
League of Nations
63
Mahabad
56–57
Mahmood, Saba
19, 80, 182
Majles (Iranian Parliament)
68–69, 86, 88, 157–158, 168
Majles-e Ahrar-e Islam
152
Makki Darolulum Madrasa, Zahedan
45–48, 128–129, 133, 139, 154–155, 158, 188n18, 190
Makki Mosque, Zahedan
45, 78–79, 107, 128, 146
Makran (in Baluchi: Makkoran)
44
Maktab-e Quran
57n132, 58, 130
Malesevic, Sinisa
3, 5, 6, 7, 186–187
Manbaolulum Madrasa, Kuhvan
45, 132, 154, 189
Mardukhi, Bayazid
62
Martyrdom
92, 120, 163, 167, 182, 191
Mashhad IX
29, 53n118, 55, 84–85, 88, 93, 95, 104–109, 114, 124, 132, 146
Maududi, Abul Ala
57
Mazhar al-Tawhid Madrasa, Taybad
53
Meftaholulum Madrasa, Rask
151
Migration
105
Militarization
27, 34, 79
Minority rights
22–23, 62, 64, 77–78, 93, 142, 158
Mirin, Ahmad
147–148
Modarres, Sayyid Hasan
50
Modarresi, Shirazi
102
Moftizade, Kak Ahmad
46, 57–60, 62, 130, 147
Mohammad-Reza Shah
35–36, 44, 52
Mojahedin-e khalq (MKO)
137
Mollazade, Molana Abdolaziz
44–46, 58, 66, 128, 138, 146, 154–155
Mollazade, Molavi Abdolmalek
46
Mollazayi, Molavi Abdolrahman
45, 133
Mollazayi, Molavi Mohammad-Esmail
47
Mollazayi, Molavi Mohammad Omar (Sarbazi)
132
Mongolian Empire
31
Motahhari, Molana, Khwaja Habibolrahman
51
Motahhari, Molana Khwaja Shamsoddin
51, 55
Motahhari, Morteza
137, 140, 149
Mousavi, Mir-Hossein
47, 60, 112–113
Muslim Brothers
57–58, 62, 89, 150n22
Nader Shah
32
Naqshbandi, Molavi Abdolghaffar
97, 133–134, 145–152, 163, 175–178, 181–185, 191
Naqshbani, Molavi Fathi-Mohammad
133, 150–151
Naqshbandiyye
44–45, 50–51, 131, 133
Naraqi, Mahdi
149
National minority
23
Nationalism
and Islamic Republic
36–38, 39, 93, 101, 135
and Pahlavi dynasty
34–35
Iraq
141
Kurdish
56, 58n135, 60, 185
Operative ideology
6, 187, 190
Pan-Turkic
24
Postcolonial Egypt
23
Nikbakht, Saleh
62
Nuclear Deal (JCPOA)
70, 74, 88, 135, 138, 189–190
Ottomans
Ahl al-kitab
19–20
Capitulation
20
Hatt-i Humayun
21
Millet
19–21
Peace Treaty of Zsitvatorok
20
Relations with Safavid
1, 32
Tanzimat
20–21
Treaty of San Stefano
22
Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
179
Pakistan
and border security
103, 150
Deoband School
29, 30, 43, 50, 53, 128, 132, 147
Independence
28, 43
Jamiat al-Ulama-i Islam
29
Religious minorities
28–29
Shia community
67
Pahlavi dynasty
34–36, 39, 42n69, 49–50, 56–57, 97, 184, 187
Palestine
23, 118, 137, 189
Persian language
31, 38, 64–65
Persophonie
31, 46, 77
Pirani, Abdolrahman
62
Post-structuralism
3
Privatization
78–79
Qaderi, Mohammadrauf
62, 93
Qaderi, Mamusta Molla Qader
155–156
Qajar dynasty
32–34
Qandahar
53
Qazi Mohammad
56
Qodusi, Karimi Javad
88, 107, 109–113, 182–183, 191
Qoreyshi, Saadi
60
Qualitative Content Analysis
8
Rabi’i, Mamusta Mohammad
147
Rafsanjani, Hashemi
38, 41, 80, 92, 111, 159–160
Raisi, Ebrahim
49, 85–86, 91, 96–98, 100–101, 105, 107, 161, 181–184, 188, 190, 191
Rajai prison, Karaj
168
Rask
133, 147, 150–151
Rigi, Homeira
42
Reformist (eslahtalab)
40, 61, 86, 111–113, 130, 157–159, 161, 183, 190
Religious minorities
11, 19, 23, 28, 31, 63–64, 66–69, 79, 97
Reza Shah Pahlavi
34, 50, 51, 56
Rezvani, Qolamreza
158
Rouhani, Hasan
31, 41, 47, 69–74, 76–78, 86, 92–93, 98, 111–112, 124, 136, 138, 151, 161, 169–170, 179, 183, 189
Russian Empire
24
Sadati, Molavvi Seyyed Abdolsamad
156
Saddam Hussein
160
Safavids
1, 32, 49
Sahaba
142, 163, 166, 176
Salafism
87, 102–104, 187
Salami, Molavi Nazir Ahmad
96
Salehi, Molavi Hasan
53
Salehi, Molla Mostafa
53
Sangan
52
Sarbaz, Baluchistan
42, 45, 97n26, 108, 133–134, 147, 154
Sarbazi, Molavi Qazi Abdolsamad
42
Sarbazi, Molla Abdollah
43
Sardar Nosrat
132
Saudi Arabia
29, 30, 34, 100, 103, 147, 187
SAVAK
58
Sectarianism
23, 28–30, 36
Secularism
19, 23
Securitization
47, 71, 78–80, 98, 153, 184, 189
Security view
13–14
Sepah-i sahaba
29, 103
Seyyed Qotb
57
Shakuri, Bahman
148
Shaltut, Shaykh Mahmud
89
Shariati Ali
57
Shariatmadari, Mohammad Kazem
87
Sheykh Feyz Mosque, Mashhad
53–54, 146–147
Shirazi, Naser Makarem
64, 66, 86–87, 102, 104, 107–108, 180, 182–183, 191
Shurak Maleki
54
Shushtari, General Nurali
150
Silk Letter Movement (reshmi rumal tahrik)
151–152
Sistan-Baluchistan
42, 47, 58, 78, 84, 90, 96–98, 103–105, 120, 128, 133, 147, 150–151, 156, 189.
Baluchistan
Sobhani, Naser
58–59, 62, 147
Socialism
24–25
Soleymani, Qasem
189
Soviet Union
34, 46, 50, 53, 56, 186, 187
Sufi paths (turuq)
44–45, 49–50, 51, 58, 131–133, 143, 149, 183
Sukhtbar (also Sukhtkesh)
162–163, 177–178
Sunni Central Council (SHAMS)
53, 58–60, 130
Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution
155
Syria
23
Tabas
52n111
Tablighi Jamaat
30, 45, 140–141, 188
Tajikistan
46–47, 50–51, 54, 78, 156, 188
Talesh
148
Taliban
102, 121, 189
Taybad
49–50, 131–132
Tehran University
130, 135
Tizab
53
Torbat Jam
49–50, 131
Transoxiana
43
Trump, Donald
135, 153n36
Turkey
22, 40, 59, 79, 185
Turkmen
1, 25, 131, 146, 153
Turkmenistan
25, 26, 29
Ubayd Allah Ahrar
51
Umayyad dynasty
94–95, 110, 142
Umma
37, 66, 99, 116–117, 121, 139–140, 167, 171
Unity (vahdat)
2, 39–40, 59, 61, 89–99, 109, 136, 142, 155, 180, 184, 188, 191
Unemployment
98, 120, 145, 157, 161, 170, 181
Uprising (2019–2020)
128, 189
USA
99, 117–118, 124, 183, 188, 189
Uzbekistan
54
Velayat-e faqih
46, 56, 60, 112, 124, 150
Wahabism
25, 26, 45, 87, 103, 106, 110, 113, 122–124, 132, 151, 182–183
Yahyavi, Mohsen
155
Yamadad, Molavi Mohammad
55
Yunesi, Ali
41, 72, 86, 93–95, 98–99, 102, 135, 169, 181, 183–184, 188, 191
Zahedan
78, 84, 107, 128–130, 139, 146, 154, 157, 181
Zayn al-Din Abu Bakr
49, 50
Zayn al-Din Abu Bakr Madrasa, Taybad
54
Zionism
100, 118, 142, 166, 183, 184
Ziyai, Sheykh Mohammad
147
Zoroastrian
63n158, 65, 67