Developing a model for the components of national identity in Iran

National identity, as the largest level of identity in any society, shows the relationship and belonging of a person with his country and is very important. The wideness and plurality of national identity studies makes the necessity of a systematic review of scientific researches to draw a comprehensive picture of the studies done in this field even more obvious. The purpose of this research is to design the model of the components of national identity in Iran through the study and summation of the researches conducted in the field of national identity and with the meta-combination approach. The current research method is qualitative and the statistical population of this research consists of all the scientific and research articles conducted in Iran on the topic of national identity from 1388 to 1398, which are in one of the scientific information databases of SID, Noormags and Magiran are indexed. A total of 250 research articles were found and finally, after various reviews and refinements, 40 articles were selected for the final review, which were organized into 263 conceptual codes, 60 components and 7 dimensions. The most important 7 dimensions of national identity in terms of the most conceptual territory and components are: cultural dimension, social dimension, historical dimension, territorial dimension, religious dimension, linguistic and literary dimension, and finally political dimension.