Iranian culture is an important component of the state-political and ideological doctrine of modern Iran. Ideas about the importance of culture in the domestic life of the country and its use as an essential integrating factor in the international arena are heard in the speeches of leading political and religious figures of Iran, as well as in the research of modern Iranian scientists.
Keywords: globalization, IRI, Iranian culture, Muslim leadership, language policy, Persian language, English borrowings.
During the thirty-five years that have passed since the formation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the attitude of the country's power structures to their culture and its role in public life has changed, and the cultural factor has been quite actively used and is currently being used by them for political and ideological purposes. It can be said that appealing to it has become a certain element of political fashion. The historical period of 35 years in the development of Iran already allows us to draw some conclusions and generalizations about the directions and trends in the development of Iranian culture.
The period in the history of Iran, which covers approximately the first decade after the Islamic revolution, is closely associated with the name of Imam Khomeini. The establishment of the theocratic regime in Iran led to the Islamization of Iranian society, and it affected not only the sphere of politics, economy, and social relations, but also, perhaps first of all, ideology and culture. Islamic ideologists were faced with the primary task of forming and embedding in the public consciousness the concept of "modern Iranian culture", while eliminating the ideas of the recent and distant past and revising the historical and cultural tradition of Iranian society, i.e. creating a new culture based on the traditions of Islam.
At this time, there is a clear tendency to narrow the scope of national history, which is divided into the pre-Islamic era, which is commonly ca ...
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