SAYYID – Lecture 2 – From Kemalism to the Islamic States

The break of Westernized/Westphalian state in the Muslim World started with the creation of Pakistan. It hosted 33% of the Muslim population in the world until 1971. In 1979, the Iranian Revolution added more elements into the Muslim State configuration. The Iranian Revolution happened in a place which was mostly urban, living in the profits of oil exploration, which made it almost impossible to predict (and then, allowing the Western World to stop it).

The White Revolution (1963-73) was a reaction to the rise of the Muslim States. For them, there was a dichotomy:

“True Islam” = Shadow of God = “Social Justice” = WHITE REVOLUTION

Opposite of

“Black Reaction”= Backward Iran = “Red Destruction”

A more complete relationship is:

Pre-Islamic Aryan Persia = Shah/”Spiritual Leader” = Great Civilization = White Revolution = USA / Free World = Resurgency Party = SAVAK

Opposite of

Arabic occupied Semitic Persia = Black Reaction = Backward Iran = Red Destruction = TRAITORS

The expanding logic of Great Civilization can be defined by the quote of General Iberico Saint Jean

“First we must kill the subversives, then their sympathizers, then the indifferent and finally the timid.”

But how to destroy a determination built so strong in our minds? Freud can give some answers. It is called OverDetermination: if you dream about a person it does not follow that you are dreaming about that specific person. It can be interpret as anything, which is not exactly what it looks in a first moment, because actions and actors carry meanings. “The meaning of signifier cannot be read back to its signifier”.

Another way is to use Intertextuality, which says that:

One is never in one discourse;

The impossibility of denotation means the social is always a connotative field;

Denotation is the last connotation.

And to think:

“Mohammed of Arabia ascended to the highest heaven and returned, by God. If I had reached that point I should not have returned.” Abdul Quddus of Gangoh in Mohhamed Iqbal, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought.