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IRAN/PERSIA Socio-Cultural Competence SS08 Presented by Daniel Snider Sye Macey Katharina Stöttinger OVERVIEW Facts & Figures History Islam in Iran Values Intercultural Dimensions ACTIVITY 1 Can 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 Script : „God is Great“ White = Peace Red = Bravery 4crescents + 1 word + 1 shaddah = 5 pillars of Islam $ GDP Per capita USA 13.5 trillion 43,444 Austria Mexico Greece 297.5 1.149 412.5 billion trillion billion 36,000 12,775 34,814 ACTIVITY 2 How high would you estimate the Iranian GDP? How high would you estimate the income per capita? FACTS & FIGURES Capital: Tehran Official Language: Persian Population: 71.208.000 GDP: $853.6 billion Per Capita: $12.300 FACTS & FIGURES 3 1 ACTIVITY 3 Can you match the following religions to the corresponding portion of the pie chart? • Shi‘a Muslim • Sunni Muslim • Other (Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian) 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 1500 BC •Persian king Cyrus – Ahaemenid Empire 331-330 BC •Alexander the Great 224- 640 •Sasanian dynasty HISTORY 641 • Arab Muslim rule • Islamic conquest 1501-1722 •Safavid dynasty •Shiite Islam 1794-1925 •Qajar dynasty •Russians vs the British 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? HISTORY 1925 • Reza Shah Pahlavi • Mohammed Reza Pahlavi •Ayatollah Khomeini 1979 •Islamic theocracy 2005 •Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 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 120 100 80 Austria 60 USA Mexico 40 Greece 20 0 Power Distance Uncertainty Avoidance Individuality ACTIVITY 5 Where would you place Iran on the scales of the following intercultural dimensions? Power Distancy Individuality Uncertainty avoidance INTERCULTURAL DIMENSIONS