Purificarea limbii ca instrument de succes în promovarea naţionalismului iranian
Purifying language as the mechanism for success in promoting Iranian nationalism

Summary/Abstract: The possessor of a highly powerful imperial pre-Islamic past, with an unique Islamic- Shiite identity, doubled by the Persian language(which belongs to the linguistic group of indo- European languages), the Iran of the 21st century tends to project a sentiment of superiority towards its fellow Arab neighbours, often being associated to the term ĝāhilīyya (in translation ignorance). Iran also tends to accentuate its belonging to the Arian race, hence the origin of the word ”Iran”, derived from the Proto-Persian ”aryānā”, which means land of the Arians. The linguistic domain is relevant in building a Persian nationalism, since imposing a pure language and cleaning it of borrowed words (which inevitably lead to the loss of the Persian language of its national identity) represent measures brought into attention by the post-revolutionary Iranian leadership in amplifying the Iranian nationalism.

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