The phenomenon of “political Islam” has been explored in several social theories. These accounts have mainly concentrated on the forms of violence that Islamists have instigated, but the racist drive that is often embedded within political Islam has remined overlooked and unexplored, that is, at least until recently when the brutal crimes by ISIS against Yazidis and Christians in northern Iraq were widely documented and broadcasted. Even so, this tendency has only been attributed to ISIS and extreme Jihadi groups, while states infused with Islamist ideology have remained relatively untouched by such critical analyses.

This article argues that most extant theoretical frameworks on political Islam do not adequately explain the often-latent racist trend in Islamist political ideology. By building off of Foucault's theory of biopolitics and genealogy of racism, it takes the Islamic Republic of Iran's policy against the Kurds as a case study to demonstrate how power shifts in favor of Islamist factions in early-1980s Iran legitimized a racist policy toward minorities in general and the Kurds in particular.

“政治伊斯兰”现象已在多种社会理论中得到探讨。这些叙述主要集中在伊斯兰主义者煽动的暴力形式上，但政治伊斯兰中经常嵌入的种族主义动机却一直被忽视和未被探索，也就是说，至少直到最近，伊斯兰国针对雅兹迪人和基督徒在叙利亚实施的残酷罪行。伊拉克北部的事件被广泛记录和广播。即便如此，这种趋势仅归因于伊斯兰国和极端圣战组织，而充满伊斯兰意识形态的国家相对而言并未受到此类批评分析的影响。

本文认为，大多数现存的政治伊斯兰理论框架并不能充分解释伊斯兰政治意识形态中经常潜在的种族主义趋势。本书以福柯的生命政治学和种族主义谱系学理论为基础，以伊朗伊斯兰共和国针对库尔德人的政策为案例研究，展示 20 世纪 80 年代初伊朗的权力如何向有利于伊斯兰派别的方向转移，使伊朗针对少数民族的种族主义政策合法化。将军，特别是库尔德人。