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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. Iran/Persia Iranian Amazing Collection Socio-Cultural Competence SS08 Presentedby Daniel Snider Sye Macey Katharina Stöttinger

3. Overview • Facts & Figures • History • Islam in Iran • Values • InterculturalDimensions Iranian Amazing Collection

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

5. ThankyouPersia • Goats • Bricks • Wine • Tar (lute) • Peaches • Backgammon • Zororastrianism • Taxes • Courier Post • Spinach • Ice Cream • Algebra • Trigonometry • Polo Iranian Amazing Collection

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

7. Activity 2 Iranian Amazing Collection How high would you estimate the Iranian GDP? How high would you estimate the income per capita?

8. Facts & Figures • Capital:Tehran • Official Language:Persian • Population:71.208.000 • GDP:$853.6 billion • Per Capita:$12.300 Iranian Amazing Collection

9. Facts & Figures Iranian Amazing Collection

10. 3 1 Activity 3 Iranian Amazing Collection Can youmatchthefollowingreligionstothecorrespondingportionofthepiechart? Shi‘a Muslim Sunni Muslim Other (Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian)

11. Facts & Figures Iranian Amazing Collection • *Other = • Jewish • Christian • Zoroastrian

12. 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 Iranian Amazing Collection

13. 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]" Iranian Amazing Collection

14. History Iranian Amazing Collection

15. History Iranian Amazing Collection

16. Activity 4 Iranian Amazing Collection What important event took place in 1979? Can you name the current president of Iran? Can you name the current supreme leader of Iran?

17. History Iranian Amazing Collection

18. 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 Iranian Amazing Collection

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

20. Interculturaldimensions Iranian Amazing Collection

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