The Islamizing Process of Cultural - Social Natrision Pattern in Iran to the End of 4th. Century A.H.

Emergence and spread of Islam in Iran in the 1st. A.H. centuries is among the great events in the history of Iran. The current research has studied the ways Iranian people’s way of life especially their nutrition habits got Islamized. In order to understand the transition occurred in the semantics of nutrition, first, the cultural patterns of nutrition in the pre-Islamic Iran was studied; then the theoretical frame that forms the Islamic semantics (of nutrition) with concepts Suchas Halal (legitimate), Haram (illegitimate), Mustahab (recommended), and Makruh (disapproved) was introduced, and at the end, the ways Iranian people interacted with such concepts namely rejection, modification (acceptance), selection, and combination were reviewed so that the process of “Islamic Iranian nutrition” semantics coming into existence could be understood.Studying the Islamizing of nutrition cultural patterns in an approach based on cultural history led the current research to use interpretive and semantic viewpoints so that by considering religion as a culture and semantic system and the application of Carl Salzman process method, it could review and recreate the social and cultural transition of pre-Islamic Iran in the first centuries of emergence of Islam in the symbolic concepts of culture and nutrition.The correspondence of Islamic teachings and patterns with historical, economic, and social conditions of Iran and Iranian people’s way of life has led to adoption and internalization of the (Islamic) nutrition cultural patterns. After the emergence of Islam in Iran, Iranian people took part in the process by taking on the three approaches of rejection, acceptance, and combination. What came to life by the combination of Islamic teachings and Iranian culture was the Iranian meal that had adopted diversity, colorfulness, and luxury from the Iranian ancient history, and illegitimacy of pork, alcoholic drinks, and prodigality, and stress on Halal fare from Islam.