The Four Dimensions of Iranian Identity in Manifesto of Islamic University

The following article includes the results of a conducted study and comparison on the amount of attention paid to each of the four dimensions of Iranian identity (i.e religious, modern, national, ethnic) in the Manifesto of the Islamic University. The article explores how these four identities are positioned within the government document, and investigates the relationship between conflict, escape and acceptance of these four layers of identity in the Manifesto of Islamic University as its main question. The study employs a qualitative content analysis methodology to identify words and phrases that indicate the four identities. Since the balancing the four identities is a challenge, particularly in relation to the tension between modern and religious identity in the manifesto, the policymakers remained uncertain, contradictory, and over-general in some parts of the document. Yet in other sections, a natural coexistence of identities has been established, with a relative balance achieved between them. Despite the greatest conflict being between religious and modern identity, the overall coexistence and compatibility of identities in the manifesto is more prevalent than conflicts