Iranian and religious Identity in Persian Proverbs
Document Type : Original Article
Author
Faculty member of Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, IRAN
Abstract
Proverbs are the subcategory of the people’s culture and the people’s culture is one of the important elements that form identity. Becuase of the role importance of proverbs in forming identity and reflecting the people’s culture in making the personal and social identity, they are an important topic in studies concerning national identity. This research wants to show what is the role of proverbs in reflecting and supporting the national identity?
To answer this question among different components of identity, we chose two components to analyze proverbs on the basis of these two categories:
1- National components include: country, language, fable, traditions and nations
2- Religious componets include: signs&traditions, terms, concepts, ceremonies & deeds, religious names and places and concepts.
After theoretical introduction of the discussion, we chose twelve proofs of national and religious identity among one hundred thousand Persian proverbs that are being published to classify and categorize them and to show their reflections in the proverbs. These studies show in the area of national components 1538 proverbs and religius components 6800 proverbs, there are 8338 proverbs in all that allude to the national and religious subject directly.
These numbers insist on this important point that proverbs are the mirror of culture and people’s thoughts and include their experimental wisdom that derive from two important religious and national resources.These two from 8.5% of total number of Persian proverbs and this bulk is the sign of people’s attention to their national and religious identity.
To answer this question among different components of identity, we chose two components to analyze proverbs on the basis of these two categories:
1- National components include: country, language, fable, traditions and nations
2- Religious componets include: signs&traditions, terms, concepts, ceremonies & deeds, religious names and places and concepts.
After theoretical introduction of the discussion, we chose twelve proofs of national and religious identity among one hundred thousand Persian proverbs that are being published to classify and categorize them and to show their reflections in the proverbs. These studies show in the area of national components 1538 proverbs and religius components 6800 proverbs, there are 8338 proverbs in all that allude to the national and religious subject directly.
These numbers insist on this important point that proverbs are the mirror of culture and people’s thoughts and include their experimental wisdom that derive from two important religious and national resources.These two from 8.5% of total number of Persian proverbs and this bulk is the sign of people’s attention to their national and religious identity.
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