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OVERVIEW
Facts
ACTIVITY 1
Can you find out which Persian inventions these symbols stand for?
Green = Islam
White = Peace
Red = Bravery
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?
3 1
ACTIVITY 3
Can you match the following religions to the corresponding portion of the pie chart? Shia Muslim Sunni Muslim Other (Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian)
ISLAM IN IRAN
Only official Shiite state of all Muslim countries Shia Islam vs Sunny Islam: Dispute: Who should become Mohammeds successor?
Shia Muslims: followed Mohammeds 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
331-330 BC
224- 640
HISTORY
Arab Muslim rule Islamic conquest
641
1501-1722
1794-1925
ACTIVITY 4
What important event took place in 1979? Can you name the current president of Iran?
HISTORY
1925
2005
IRANIAN VALUES
Family values
Family as the basis of all social structures Priority of Family before business Importance of Privacy Nepotism
Taarof Politeness
Protest compliments Always first decline offers before you finally accept
120 100
80
ACTIVITY 5
Where would you place Iran on the scales of the following intercultural dimensions? Power Distancy Individuality Uncertainty avoidance
INTERCULTURAL DIMENSIONS