Iran/Persia

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Iran/Persia

• Socio-Cultural Competence
• SS08
• Presented by
• Daniel Snider
• Sye Macey
• Katharina Stöttinger

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Overview

• Facts Figures
• History
• Islam in Iran
• Values
• InterculturalDimensions

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Activity 1

• Can you find out which Persian inventions these
  symbols stand for?

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Thank you Persia

• Goats
• Bricks
• Wine
• Tar (lute)
• Peaches
• Backgammon
• Zororastrianism

• Taxes
• Courier Post
• Spinach
• Ice Cream
• Algebra
• Trigonometry
• Polo

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Green Islam
Script God is Great
4crescents 1 word 1 shaddah 5 pillars of
Islam
White Peace
Red Bravery
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Activity 2
USA Austria Mexico Greece
GDP 13.5 trillion 297.5 billion 1.149 trillion 412.5 billion
Per capita 43,444 36,000 12,775 34,814

• How high would you estimate the Iranian GDP?
• How high would you estimate the income per capita?

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Facts Figures

• CapitalTehran
• Official LanguagePersian
• Population71.208.000
• GDP853.6 billion
• Per Capita12.300

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Facts Figures
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Activity 3
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• Can you match the following religions to the
  corresponding portion of the pie chart?
• Shia Muslim
• Sunni Muslim
• Other (Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian)

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Facts Figures

• Other
• Jewish
• Christian
• Zoroastrian

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Islam in Iran

• Only official Shiite state of all Muslim
  countries
• Shia Islam vs Sunny IslamDispute Who should
  become Mohammeds successor?
• Shia Muslims followed Mohammeds daughter
  Fatimah Zara and his son-in-law Ali
• Sunni Muslims followed Caliph Abu Bakr

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Iranians/Persians/Muslims/arabs?

• Bernard Lewis
• "Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not
  Arabized. Persians remained Persians. In a
  sense, Iranian Islam is a second advent of Islam
  itself, a new Islam sometimes referred to as
  Islam-i Ajam. It was this Persian Islam, rather
  than the original Arab Islam, that was brought to
  new areas and new peoples to the Turks, first in
  Central Asia and then in the Middle East in the
  country which came to be called Turkey, and of
  course to India. The Ottoman Turks brought a form
  of Iranian civilization to the walls of
  Vienna...1"

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History
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History
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Activity 4

• What important event took place in 1979?
• Can you name the current president of Iran?
• Can you name the current supreme leader of Iran?

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History
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Iranian Values

• Family values
• Family as the basis of all social structures
• Priority of Family before business
• Importance of Privacy
• Nepotism
• Public vs Private Identity
• zaher vs batin
• Inner circle includes family and friends and can
  be extended to business partners
• Taarof Politeness
• Protest compliments
• Always first decline offers before you finally
  accept

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Activity 5

• Where would you place Iran on the scales of the
  following intercultural dimensions?
• Power Distancy
• Individuality
• Uncertainty avoidance

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Intercultural dimensions