Children of Paradise (87 page)

Rokhsefat and,
52

Soroush and,
63
–64

as student in Paris,
12
–13

as teacher,
15

utopian vision of,
12
–14

writings of,
13
–14,
18
–19,
20

Shariatmadari, Hossein (editor),
279
,
304
–5

Sharif, Majid (editor),
170
,
178

Sharif, Solmaz (reporter),
259
–60,
266
–68, 274–77,
279
,
284
–88,
291
–96,
299
,
301
,
302
,
304
,
306
,
307
–12

See also
arrested bloggers

Sharp, Gene,
441

Shatt al-Arab waterway,
41
,
45

Sherkat, Shahla (editor),
120

Shiite Islam

Greek philosophy and,
30

as highly hierarchical,
27
–28

as mobilizing ideology,
17

Shariati’s reinvention of,
13
,
14
,
17

twelve imams in,
13
,
27
,
29
,
63

Shiraz,
23
–24,
44
,
413
,
416

Shooting at Reform
(Rafizadeh),
254

Shultz, George,
438

Siahkal (village),
17

Silone, Ignazio,
32

Sobh-e Emrouz
(newspaper),
180
,
375

social justice

conservatives’ call for,
324

Shariati and,
15
,
32
,
47
,
186
,
340

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
(Moore),
144

Soltani, Ebrahim (editor),
326

Soroush, Abdolkarim (philosopher)

arrest of,
124
–25

attacks on,
122
–24,
190

Bazargan and,
79
–80

Cultural Revolution and,
71
–73,
79
,
453

on democracy,
328
–29

early years of,
57
–58

in England,
19
–20,
59

Fardid and,
77
–78

Ganji and,
110
–11

at Hosseiniyeh Ershad,
59

influence of,
56
,
112
,
117
,
143

influences on,
59
–63

Islamic philosophy and,
58
–59,
62

Kayhan-e Farhangi
and,
73
–74,
79
–80,
186

Kiyan
and,
326

lectures of,
80

Marxism and,
53
–54,
64
,
66
–67,
327

Mojahedin and,
58
–59

moral ambiguity of,
73

and Mutazilites,
115
–16

open society and,
68
–69

opposition to Fardid,
76

philosophy of science and,
61
–63

pluralism and,
114
–15

poetry and,
57

politics and,
58
–59

Popper and,
61

rejecting Marxism,
64

religion, reason, and,
74

response to events of 2009,
450
–51

return from London,
55
,
68

Shariati and,
19
–21,
63
–64

on social sciences,
450
–51

students and,
189

supporting Mousavi,
447

supporting regime,
68

utopian Islam and,
64

“velvet coup” plot and,
436
,
441
–42

as visiting scholar,
327

writings of,
53
–57,
67
–68,
73
,
113

Sotoudeh, Amir Hossein (suitor of Darabi),
389

Soviet Union

Bazargan and,
48
–49

Iran-Iraq War and,
41

Special Court of the Clergy,
161
,
193
,
252
,
381

speech, freedom of,
36
,
132
,
174
,
178

spider’s house (parable in Quran),
263

“Spider’s House, The” (Shariatmadari),
279
,
283
,
287
,
289
,
304
–5,
325

State and Revolution in Iran, The
(Bashiriyeh),
138
–39

stoning,
390
–97

Stop Stoning Forever campaign,
394
,
400

Story of Philosophy, The
(Will Durant),
365

Strauss, Leo,
118

strikes,
34
,
35
,
108

students

allied with Islamic Republican Party,
69

at Amirkabir University,
187
–92,
205
,
251

attacked after election of 2009,
416

in election of 1997,
191
–92

hostage crisis of 1979 and,
83
–84

Khatami and,
202
–5,
314
–16,
372

revolutionary,
71
–72

Soroush and,
189

spying on professors,
71

at University of Mashhad,
15

See also
Eighteenth of Tir campus crisis

Students Following the Imam’s Line,
39

suffrage, women’s,
28
,
36

Sufis and Sufism

mysticism of,
76
,
136

poetry of,
59
,
134
–35

“self-blamers” in,
10

sultanism,
323
,
351

Supreme Leader

absolute loyalty to,
131

God ruling Iran through,
347

power of,
38
,
159
–61

revision of qualifications for,
101

role after election of 2009,
419
–20

as vice-regent of God,
38

See also
Khamenei, Ali; Khomeini, Ruhollah

Tabatabai, Allameh (philosopher),
365
,
367

Tafazzoli, Ahmad (writer),
177

Tajzadeh, Mostafa (deputy interior minister)

arrest of,
418

confession of,
453
–54

on election of 2009,
414
–15

Memarian to confess about,
283

Javad Montazeri questioned about,
372

named in “Spider’s House” editorial in
Kayhan
,
279

in prison,
452
–54

as reformist,
252
–53,
279

replacing governors with reformists,
341

at seminar on reformist strategy,
318
–19

Solmaz Sharif and,
287
,
288