به نام پروردگار مهربان In the name of God IRANIAN AMAZING COLLECTION Pack 2 (DVD no. 1)

I RAN /P ERSIA Socio-Cultural Competence SS08 Presented by Daniel Snider Sye Macey Katharina Stöttinger Iranian Amazing Collection

O VERVIEW Facts & Figures History Islam in Iran Values Intercultural Dimensions Iranian Amazing Collection

A CTIVITY 1 Can you find out which Persian inventions these symbols stand for? Iranian Amazing Collection

T HANK YOU P ERSIA Goats Bricks Wine Tar (lute) Peaches Backgammon Zororastrianism Taxes Courier Post Spinach Ice Cream Algebra Trigonometry Polo Iranian Amazing Collection

Green = Islam Red = Bravery White = Peace Script : „God is Great“ 4crescents + 1 word + 1 shaddah = 5 pillars of Islam Iranian Amazing Collection

A CTIVITY 2 How high would you estimate the Iranian GDP? How high would you estimate the income per capita? $USAAustriaMexicoGreece GDP 13.5 trillion billion trillion billion Per capita 43,44436,000 12,77534,814 Iranian Amazing Collection

F ACTS & F IGURES Capital: Tehran Official Language: Persian Population: GDP: $853.6 billion Per Capita: $ Iranian Amazing Collection

F ACTS & F IGURES Iranian Amazing Collection

A CTIVITY 3 Can you match the following religions to the corresponding portion of the pie chart? Shi‘a Muslim Sunni Muslim Other (Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian) 1 3 Iranian Amazing Collection

F ACTS & F IGURES *Other = Jewish Christian Zoroastrian Iranian Amazing Collection

I SLAM IN I RAN 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 Iranian Amazing Collection

I RANIANS /P ERSIANS /M USLIMS / ARABS ? Bernard LewisBernard 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]"[1] Iranian Amazing Collection

H ISTORY 1500 BC Persian king Cyrus – Ahaemenid Empire BC Alexander the Great Sasanian dynasty Iranian Amazing Collection

H ISTORY 641 Arab Muslim rule Islamic conquest Safavid dynas ty Shiite Islam Qajar dynasty Russians vs the British Iranian Amazing Collection

A CTIVITY 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? Iranian Amazing Collection

H ISTORY 1925 Reza Shah Pahlavi Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini Islamic theocracy 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iranian Amazing Collection

I RANIAN V ALUES 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 Iranian Amazing Collection

A CTIVITY 5 Where would you place Iran on the scales of the following intercultural dimensions? Power Distancy Individuality Uncertainty avoidance Iranian Amazing Collection

I NTERCULTURAL DIMENSIONS Iranian Amazing Collection

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