Honoring the Guest and Its Manifestation in the Atmospheric Structure of Traditional Iranian Houses

Honoring the guest is one of the constituents of Islamic morality, on which Islamic traditions, Quranic verses, and books of many thinkers emphasize. A deep look at the atmospheric structure of traditional Iranian houses will reveal the special attention given by these houses to honoring and respecting the guest. The present paper aims at reviewing and analyzing the manifestation of honoring the guest, as one of the Islamic moral aspects, in the atmospheric structure of traditional Iranian houses. The research method is descriptive-analytical. First, the idea of honoring the guest has been extracted from Islamic traditions, Quranic verses and books of a number of Muslim scholars and thinkers. Then the manifestation of honoring the guest in the atmospheric structure of traditional Iranian houses has been discussed and analyzed.