Shi‘ite-perso views towards abusing wine and opium: is it addiction or culture?
- In this essay, one of the most serious problems highlighted with respect to contemporary Iranians, who are mostly known as Shi‘ite-Perso (Shi‘ite-Persian) citizens of Iran, and what their view toward abusing wine and opium is. On one hand, the wealthy Persian literature is full of poems, narrations and notes with reference to wine and opium, while on the other hand, many parts of Shi‘ite-Islamic thought deem wine unclean and illegal, and abusing opium is forbidden except under certain [hard-fulfilling] conditions. Hereby, in this essay the aim is to express why the question “are drinking wine and abusing opium known as addiction or literal culture?” is suspended throughout the young Iranian generation. In this regard, the standpoints of Persian poets and Iranian religious figures towards wine and opium will be considered.
Author: | Majid Daneshgar |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-336417 |
URL: | http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm |
ISSN: | 1434-5935 |
Parent Title (German): | Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur |
Series (Serial Number): | Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur (187) |
Publisher: | Goethe-Univ. |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Document Type: | Part of Periodical |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2014 |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2014/06/25 |
Tag: | Addiction; Hashish; Iran; Islam; Opium; Persian; Qur’an; Shi‘ite; Wine |
Issue: | 187 |
Page Number: | 8 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 8 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 34852305X |
Institutes: | Evangelische Theologie / Evangelische Theologie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 2 Religion / 29 Andere Religionen / 290 Andere Religionen |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |