Transcript Iran

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