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IRAN/PERSIA
Socio-Cultural CompetenceSS08
Presented by
Daniel Snider
Sye Macey
Katharina Stöttinger
OVERVIEW
Facts & FiguresHistoryIslam in IranValuesIntercultural
Dimensions
ACTIVITY 1Can you find out which Persian inventions these symbols stand for?
THANK YOU PERSIA
Goats Bricks Wine Tar (lute) Peaches Backgammon Zororastrianism
Taxes Courier Post Spinach Ice Cream Algebra Trigonometry Polo
Green = Islam
Red = Bravery
White = Peace
Script : „God is Great“
4crescents+ 1 word+ 1 shaddah= 5 pillars of Islam
ACTIVITY 2How high would you estimate the Iranian GDP?
How high would you estimate the income per capita?
$ USA Austria Mexico GreeceGDP 13.5
trillion297.5 billion
1.149 trillion
412.5 billion
Per capita
43,444 36,000 12,775 34,814
FACTS & FIGURES
Capital:Tehran
Official Language:Persian
Population:71.208.000
GDP:$853.6 billion
Per Capita:$12.300
FACTS & FIGURES
ACTIVITY 3Can you match the following religions to the corresponding portion of the pie chart?
• Shi‘a Muslim• Sunni Muslim• Other (Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian)
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3
FACTS & FIGURES
*Other =•Jewish•Christian•Zoroastrian
ISLAM IN IRAN
Only official Shi‘ite state of all Muslim countries
Shi‘a Islam vs Sunny Islam:Dispute: Who should become Mohammed‘s successor?
Shia Muslims: followed Mohammed‘s daughter Fatimah Zara and his son-in-law Ali
Sunni Muslims: followed Caliph Abu Bakr
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]"
HISTORY
HISTORY
ACTIVITY 4What important event took place in 1979?
Can you name the current president of Iran?
Can you name the current supreme leader of Iran?
HISTORY
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
ACTIVITY 5
Where would you place Iran on the scales of the following intercultural dimensions?
Power Distancy
Individuality
Uncertainty avoidance
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20
40
60
80
100
120
Power Distance Uncertainty Avoidance
Individuality
Austria
USA
Mexico
Greece
INTERCULTURAL DIMENSIONS