Spektrum Iran

Abstrakt Hamid Dabashi's study Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene (2015) is a counter draft by the Iranian-American historian Hamid Dabashi to Edward Said’s seminal work Orientalism (first published 1978). While Said only focused on the repressive influence of the colonial powers on the Orient, Dabashi extended the analysis to circular processes of knowledge production in global exchange. He uses numerous examples to show how unintentionally and unknowingly by the colonizers and even against their interests through such exchange processes in the colonies analogous to civil society in Europe, as Habermas has described in his famous book The structural change of the public sphere (1990) public spheres opened up in which social criticism, national Identities and resistance to the colonial powers emerged. In retrospect, European Persophilia, as a variant of Orientalism with positive connotations, made a significant contribution to the emergence of a literary and later political public sphere in Persia (a favorite subject of Dabashi). Central to his numerous examples from linguistics, art and philosophy he emphasizes the influence of the mystical Persian poetry on German Romanticism, illustrated by Hafez’s attraction to Goethe and other poets. Finally, Dabashi looks at parallel political and economic developments in Germany and the Persian cultural area in the 20th century, which favored an amalgamation of poetic-mystical and fascist / National Socialist ideas and thus created the ideological prerequisites for pan-Islamism and political Islam in Iran.

Abstrakt Peace is one of the manifestations of civilization and culture. From the point of view of Islamic philosophy, culture" is not just a way of thinking or a life style, customary morality and archaic and time- honored norms, but rather defines the second nature of man" and the collective identity of the Muslim community (Ummah) on which the foundations of theoretical and practical values are established which make possible peaceful coexistence with other nations and communities.
Hwäğeh Naşir al-Din Tüsi (597-672 AH) compiled the Ahlaq-e Năşerī in 633 AH./1235 AD. This book is considered to be one of the important sources of Iranian-Islamic philosophical ethics. The chapter on practical philosophy which comes after the chapter on the refinement of morality, consists of five parts: 1. Household and its essential elements; 2. Management of properties (amwal) and nutriments (aqwát); 3. Management of the household members; 4. Education of children; 5- The right policy of administration of servants and slaves.
The present article is about the culture of peace from Naşir al-Din Tüsi's viewpoint and how it can be of value in the present- day discussions about peace. In addition the question is raised whether Tüsi's theory can be utilized as a virtual model in the present situation.
With a view to the fact that peace is jeopardized both by the western globalization" and the „Islamic extremism", the problem at issue is how peace and security can be restored to the present human community?