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1 به نام پروردگار مهربان In the name of God IRANIAN AMAZING COLLECTION Pack 2 (DVD no. 1) www.irane7000saale.com

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

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

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

5 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

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

7 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 297.5 billion 1.149 trillion 412.5 billion Per capita 43,44436,000 12,77534,814 Iranian Amazing Collection

8 F ACTS & F IGURES Capital: Tehran Official Language: Persian Population: 71.208.000 GDP: $853.6 billion Per Capita: $12.300 Iranian Amazing Collection

9 F ACTS & F IGURES Iranian Amazing Collection

10 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

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

12 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

13 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

14 H ISTORY 1500 BC Persian king Cyrus – Ahaemenid Empire 331-330 BC Alexander the Great 224- 640 Sasanian dynasty Iranian Amazing Collection

15 H ISTORY 641 Arab Muslim rule Islamic conquest 1501-1722 Safavid dynas ty Shiite Islam 1794-1925 Qajar dynasty Russians vs the British Iranian Amazing Collection

16 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

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

18 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

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

20 I NTERCULTURAL DIMENSIONS Iranian Amazing Collection

21 در پناه يزدان مهربان همیشه شاد و پیروز و تندرست باشید. www.irane7000saale.com Special Thanks to dear creator


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