Socio-cultural issues of Iran and Afghanistan 3600-7-IR1-ZSKIA2

Knowledge:
Learning outcomes - has detailed and organized knowledge of socio-cultural issues in Iran within the scope of natural environment and ethnic, demographic and political situation from the Arab conquest till the modern times
- can name and characterize basic cultural phenomena of Iran
- has organized knowledge of natural, geopolitical and economic environment and their importance for the historical and contemporary situation in Iran
- is aware of the linguistic variety and its influence on the cultural and political situation of the world
Skills:
- can indicate sources of cultural differences between the countries of the Orient
- can use the knowledge of history of Iran to analyze and interpret events taking place in the modern world
- can appropriately place Iran in the context of circumstances pertinent to natural, geopolitical and economic environment
- can compare and perceive interrelations between chosen literary texts and other works of culture (film, press, social writing) of Iran and Afgnaistan and the issues within the scope of tradition and modern times
- can use the knowledge of socio-cultural issues of Iran in typical professional situations
- can properly function in the linguistic and cultural environment of Iran and Afghanistan
- has a skill in presenting detailed aspects within the scope of cultural issues of Iran in Polish and in Persian language taking into consideration the intellectual tradition of Iran.
Social competence:
- understands the need to learn all one’s life
- can set appropriate goals and ways to achieve them in the context of academic, professional and social activity
- has awareness of the cultural distinctness and its religious, philosophical, traditional and historical roots and its significance for understanding modern world
- sees the need of dialogue between cultures
- is aware of significance the Iranian culture has for the culture of the world
- acts in aid of sharing and promoting cultural and linguistic heritage of Iran
- perceives the positive socio-cultural values of Iran and Afghanistan and possibility to use them in own personal development and effective intercultural communication

oral examination,
continuous assessment (current preparation for classes, preparation for discussions on the basis of source materials)
oral examination
attendence control (it is possible to have 2 unexcused per semester)

Zalecana lista lektur:
1. Mahnaz Afkhami, “A Future in the Past: the Pre-Revolutionary Women’s Movement in Iran”: R. Morgan, ed., Sisterhood is Global: An International Women’s Movement Anthology (New York 1984).
2. Said Amir Arjomand, Introduction: Shi’ism, Authority, and Political Culture w: Authority and Political Culture in Shi’ism, (red.) S.A. Arjomand, SUNY Press, 1988, 1¬–24.
3.Janet Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press 2009).
4. Harriet Blyth, Racialisation Processes in Iran, CERS Working Paper, 2014.
5. Browne, E.G., 1914. The Press and Poetry of Modern Persia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
6. Browne, E.G., 1910. The Persian Revolution of 1905-1909. Cambridge 16. University Press, Cambridge.
7. The Cambridge History of Iran, t. I, The Land of Iran, Cambridge University Press, 1968.
8. Willem Floor, A Social History of Sexual Relations in Iran (Mage Publishers 2008).Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (University of California Press 2005).
9.Joanna de Groot, “Gender, Discourse and Ideology in Iranian Studies: Towards a New Scholarship”, Deniz Kandiyoti, ed., Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives (I.B.Tauris 2007): 29-50.
10. N. Keddie, Współczesny Iran, Kraków 2007.
11. Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Hazards of Modernity and Morality: Women, State and Ideology in Contemporary Iran”: Deniz Kandiyoti, ed., Women, Islam and the State (Macmillan Press 1991): 48-76.
12. Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (University of California Press 2005): 132-155.
13. Kumari Jayawardena, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World (Verso 2016): 1-24; 57-70.
14. Jaśkowski, S.A., 2019. U źródeł współczesnego Iranu. Wydawnictwo Akademickie DIALOG, Warszawa
15. Jaśkowski, S. 2017. "Kadżarskie źródła myśli Ahmada Kasrawiego?". Przegląd orientalistyczny, 3 (263). 263-276
16. Jaśkowski, Stanisław. 2011. "Ahmad Kasrawi, pierwsza ofiara rewolucji". Przegląd orientalistyczny. 1-2 (236-237). 77-85
17. Szahroch Meskub, Tożsamość irańska a język perski [w:] „Irańskie drogi do nowoczesności. Projekty. Idee. Manifesty”, red. A. Krasnowolska, R. Rusek-Kowalska, M Rzepka, Kraków 2014, s. 241-244.
18. A. Rashid, Talibowie, Warszawa 2002.
19. Karolina Rakowiecka, Afqani dżama’at. O Afganach, stereotypach i propagandzie w porewolucyjnym Iranie [w:] „Miscellanea Afghanica Cravoviensia”, red. T. Gacek, J. Pstrusińska, M. Rzepka, Kraków 2010, s. 131-142.
20. Hamideh Sedghi, Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling (Cambridge University Press 2007)
21. J. Sierakowska-Dyndo, Granice wyobraźni politycznej Afgańczyków, Warszawa 2007.
22. Sylwia Surdykowska, Iran in the Eyes of Poles [in:] ‘In the Archive of Memory. The Fate of Poles and Iranians in the Second World War’, ed. Sylwia Surdykowska, Warsaw 2014, s. 97-109.
23. Ali Szari'ati, Męczeństwo (Hosejn, spadkobierca Adama) (fragmenty) [w:] „Irańskie drogi do nowoczesności. Projekty. Idee. Manifesty”, red. A. Krasnowolska, R. Rusek-Kowalska, M Rzepka, Kraków 2014, s. 209-218.
24. Film: Rozstanie, Asgar Farhadi, 2011,
25. Davis, Craig. “‘A’ Is for Allah, ‘J’ Is for Jihad.” World Policy Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, [Sage Publications, Inc., Duke University Press], 2002, pp. 90–94, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40209794.
26. Pelevin, Mikhail, and Matthias Weinreich. “The Songs of the Taliban: Continuity of Form and Thought in an Ever-Changing Environment.” Iran & the Caucasus 16, no. 1 (2012): 45–70. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41723223.
27. John Bailey, 2011, Songs from Kabul: The Spiritual Music of Ustad Amir Muhammad, Algershot:Ashgate
28. Merlin Swartz, “HANAFITE MAḎHAB,” Encyclopædia Iranica, XI/6, pp. 651-653, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/hanafite-madhab
29. Pstrusińska,, Jadwiga, “Paştunwali – afgański kodeks postępowania”, Etnografia Polska 21, nr. 2 (1977), s. 63-79.
30. J. F. Shroder, Jr., “AFGHANISTAN i. Geography,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 1982, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afghanistan-i-geography
31. E. Stenz, The Climate of Afghanistan,its Aridity, Dryness and Divisions, New York, Polish Institute of Arts and Science in America, 1946.
32 Stenz, Edward. “STRONG EARTHQUAKES IN AFGHANISTAN.” Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America 3, no. 2 (1945): 398–411. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24724993.

33. Ch. M. Kieffer, “AFGHANISTAN v. Languages,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 1982, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afghanistan-v-languages
34.Pstrusińska J., O tajnych językach Afganistanu i ich użytkownikach, Kraków 2004
35. L. Dupree, “AFGHANISTAN iv. Ethnography,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 1982, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/afghanistan-iv-ethnography
36. Abdulbaqi, Misbahullah. “Madrassah in Afghanistan: Evolution and Its Future.” Policy Perspectives 5, no. 2 (2008): 130–59. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42909538.

Lektury uzupełniające:
1. Sz. Ebadi, Broniłam ofiar, Warszawa 2007
2. J. Sierakowska-Dyndo, Afganistan. Narodziny republiki, Warszawa 2002
3. B. Kaim, Sztuka starożytnego Iranu, Warszawa 1994.
4. Afary, J., 2005. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911. Columbia University Press, New York
5. Jaśkowski, S.A., 2018. Parcham - Journal of Ahmad Kasravi and His Followers. Wydawnictwo Akademickie Dialog, Warszawa

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