نشریه مطالعات ملی
سال چهاردهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 53، بهار 1392)

Iran is a name of the territory and the state that is historic in the political geography of the world and focus of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh is in honor of all of people that had attempted for its survival. The concept of "IRAN" had had multiple reflections Based on variety Methods of statecraft & ruling in Ancient Period in Shahnameh. Applications of Iran or having used it with the geographical and geographical- political concepts had created multiple definitions about Iran in Shahnameh. Iran, iranshahr and iranzamin which have used in shahnameh and other historical and literary sources, at first it seems there are the same concepts but by studying of shahnameh and other resources, and historical knowledge, especially of the Sassanian period we can understand that there are different concepts. Ferdowsi knew well these concepts and applied them in Shahnameh. Therefore, this study attempts to examine and explain the functionality concept and multi-orientation of these names in Shahnameh.

"Persian Gulf" or "Fars Sea" is one of the most famous names in history books and the Arabic manuscripts that it is based around the world. Unfortunately, this name was distorted in the 1960s, while in all Arabic and non Arabic texts and maps which are available before 1960, has seen Persian Gulf. Then, the Arab states with different motivations attempt to change this name. The Arabic governments during the past half century had tried to distorting the name of Persian Gulf in public opinion of the world. However, historical records and documentation is so strong and Arab ethnicism to change the name were not successful and the public opinion of the world has been accepted the name of Persian Gulf. This paper examine the works of several Arab authors, who proposed to change the name of Persian Gulf and pay to the distortions that they expressed to their views, then, the article answer to every distortions.

The recognition of the integration and disintegration contexts and factors is one of the important necessities in policy making process about the national solidarity in each country. Regarding, Iran is a country that has got regional and cultural variety, it has been used as a geopolitical means for regional and trans - regional actors and also some of the experts in different fields of competition, especially political competitions. One of the important regions of Iran which has been affected by some cultural differences in the language area is Azarbaijan region. Regarding high geopolitical importance of Azarbaijan in Iran, national integration and disintegration has got great importance in this area. So, this research was started with the aim of studying integration and disintegration factors in Azarbaijan. Research method in this article is survey and we have got the data through questionnaire. For this purpose, we passed out a questionnaire about Azarbaijan among informed people. The data was evaluated by means of Welcocson nonparametrical test; the results confirmed the hypotheses of the research. In other words, the results showed that national integration in Azarbaijan has been an old and innate matter that is rooted in its various ties with Iran in different historical, cultural, social and other dimensions, but disintegration is an accidental (non-essential) matter that can be analyzed in the form of modern theories.

Focusing on the ‘strategy’ of socialization (Berger 1967; Pluss 2007) and based on the model developed by Michener et al. (1990), this paper examines the patterns and characteristics associated with religious socialization. The paper employs the socialization theory (Sapir 1929, Mead 1934, Whorf 1956, Evans and Davis 2000, Tylor 2003) in which educational system and school-textbooks play a key role in the socialization process of children. Using the conent analysis method, this paper also focuses on the school-textbooks of Iran in three educational levels: Primary, Intermediate, and High Schools. Generally speaking, the resuls of this analysis show that the these educational resources are substantially dominated by religion so that, for instance, such words as ‘God’ and ‘religion’ are markedly prevalent throughout the textbooks. This general pattern applies to both religious and other textbooks. However, comparative analysis illustrates that the religion of Islam and its characteristics such as the Holy Book (Quran) and the Prophet Mohammad have been respresented in these educational materials by far more overwhelmingly than other religions. Moreover, the results support the fact that the association between religion and gender portrayed in the textbooks vary significantly by the age of the audiance (that is, students): the higher the age, the stronger the effect of religion. Future studies can provide further evidence to assess the outcome and efficiency of such patterns of religious socialization highlighted in the present analysis.

A major and basic feature of contemporary era is fundamental challenges rooted in invading of modern thought and culture of Western to the Muslim world.The world of Islamic like other areas which have been colonized through the age of colonization, experienced the same challenges during two last centuries.This issue causes the remarkable part of intellectual society of Islamic world has been enthusiast by ideals and principles of western modern world. This study has been done by using survey method by which we scrutinize the effect of variables such as confidence of Islamic culture and its globalization, sampling from Islamic revolution of Iran, malfunctioning of the governors who were dependent to the western system and developing the communications between separated part of Islamic nations on Islamic movements of this region. Since the number of statistical population was not clear, we use the chart of Morgan in which the standard samples is defined to the 384 member in our sample by using questionnaire, through internet and gaining the internet users accepting from 4 countries, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, 96 samples for each ones, this study has been done. In order to define validity and reliability of research we use Corn Bach method and SH. Loshe. Finally, inferential statistic and analyzing the hypothesis and resulting has been done.

Certainly, an important part of Iranian identity is rooted in Islamic Civilization and Islamic identity be manifested and appeared in the elements, ideas, teachings and beliefs of Islam and Shiite. Carpeting art is one of the native and applied arts that with using of the symbols, concepts and Islamic themes, especially Shiite worldview, including epiphany of the heaven and its elements (trees in the garden scene, and vegetable and plant motifs), religious teachings (holy and prophetic verses and sayings), visual narratives (visiting Imam Ali (aS) from patients, the Prophet's Ascension), the scene of Ashura, visual icons of Prophet and imams (aS), invocations and prayers attributed to Shia in inscriptions and literature (Nadeali prayer, Ziarat-e-Ashura), as well as is the representative of the Islamic identity. This article with selecting fifteen carpets which have icons, concepts and themes of Shiite and Islam, analyzes the Islamic identity and its associated elements in these Iranian carpets.

Language teaching is considered to be a means of spreading cultural values, in the globalization era and it is clear that cultural values are in a close relationship with national identity symbols. Therefore, the focus of this article is on TPFL as a mechanism for dissemination of Iranian Culture and identity. In this study, 3 TPFL textbooks (7 volumes) written by Samara (1371), Zarghamian (1381) and Purnamdarian (1378) has been analyzed on the basis of the quality of their representation of Iranian culture and identity. Accordingly, the present study wants to answer the three following questions: 1- which Iranian cultural values are can be spread through teaching Persian? 2- Which of the Iranian cultural values have been taken into consideration in the selected TPFL text-books? 3- To what extent is paid to each component and cultural value? The study shows that among 35 Iranian cultural values, only 25 of them are used in the studied TPFL textbooks. It seems that less focus is made on components such as science, industry, history, Iranian civilization and religion.

The aim of current study is to investigate the relationship between the four dimensions of identity and the four components of emotional intelligence in adolescents. For this purpose, 114 middle school and high school students, in range of 14 to 17 year olds, randomly selected and completed questionnaires AIQ-IV and EI. Correlation analysis showed that the collective identity and utility of emotion have the highest correlation. Stepwise regression analysis was used to investigate the role of identity in prediction of components of emotional intelligence. The regression analysis showed that relational and personal identity predict social skills. In sum, these results suggest that the dimensions of identity play a major role in a person's emotional intelligence as one of the requirements of daily life. The results of this research, emphasize to adolescence as a stage of identity formation and role of identity in efficient understanding of oneself and others (emotional intelligence).