{"id":2112,"date":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/the-priest-and-the-king-an-examination-of-the-iranian-revolution-using-the-outlook-of-foucault-to-analyse-the-causes-course-of-events-and-outcomes\/"},"modified":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-priest-and-the-king-an-examination-of-the-iranian-revolution-using-the-outlook-of-foucault-to-analyse-the-causes-course-of-events-and-outcomes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2014\/01\/12\/the-priest-and-the-king-an-examination-of-the-iranian-revolution-using-the-outlook-of-foucault-to-analyse-the-causes-course-of-events-and-outcomes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priest and the King: an examination of the Iranian Revolution using the outlook of Foucault to analyse the causes, course of events and outcomes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018As an \u201cIslamic\u201d movement, it can set the entire region afire, overturn the most unstable regimes, and disturb the most solid. Islam \u2013 which is not simply a religion, but an entire way of life, and adherence to a history and a civilisation \u2013 has a good chance to become a giant powder keg, at the level of hundreds of millions of men.\u2019 Foucault predicted that the revolution in Iran would not follow the model of other modern revolutions, writing that it was instead organised around a greatly different concept which he called \u2018political spirituality\u2019. He acknowledged the huge power of the new discourse of militant Islam for the world, not just Iran. Foucault indicated that the new Islamist movement pointed at a fundamental cultural, political and social break with the modern Western order, such a discourse would amend the \u2018global strategic equilibrium\u2019.  &#8211; Foucault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan Alikhanizadeh, 2014, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,22,128],"tags":[218,44,63],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-arab-spring","tag-foucault","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}