Religious Teachings and Food Culture of Iranian Ordinary People

Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation

ابراهیم  موسی پور ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2011-12-14 Accepted : 2012-02-04 Published : 2012-02-20

Keywords: Nutrition, Food Behaviors, everyday life, Popular&#x0D, &#x0D, Religion, Safavid-Qajarid Iran,

Abstract :

The food culture of Iranian people has been an aspect of Iranians'everyday life which in spite of throughout changes that were the resultof officialization of Shi'ism, has not been so shifted or modified. Infact, Shi'ism couldn't be supposed as an effective factor in making anyreligion-based change in nutrition system of the ordinary people at thisperiod. Nevertheless, along with the Islamic general recommendationsabout eating rites (ādāb al-akl) and the pattern of proper and improperacts /rights and wrongs which believers were supposed to consider intheir food behaviors, some Shiite teachings and particularly thereligious occasions have formed some food habits of Safavid-Qajaridpeople or at least have resulted in some certain regulations in thesehabits. Upon this survey, most of these teachings are originated ingeneral Islamic tradition and the resulted changes of Shiite teachings,are mainly manifested in public feedings and vow ("nadhr"s) rites inShiite temporal or local situations, mostly in a popular religionapproach