The process of islamization of cultural pattern of " purification" in Iran of the fourth (A.H) century: a cultural history approach

The rise and spread of Islam in the early Higri centuries were among the great events in Iranian history. Investigating the way people’s lifestyle, especially the culture of purification, was Islamized is the research objective of the present study. This article seeks by understanding of the semantic system of purification to first investigate the cultural patterns of individual hygiene of Iranians in pre-Islamic era, developing and introducing a theoretical frameworks in the form of Islamic semantic system’s concepts (i.e. impure and pure), and then representing Iranians’ interaction model to finally conceptualize the production process of semantic system of “purification”.Investigating the islamization process of the cultural pattern of “purification” with emphasis on the cultural history approach directed the research towards the employment of interpretive view and meaning analysis of “Clifford Geertz”; and then, by looking at religion as a semantic system and culture, and applying the process approach, cultural development of the early centuries of post-Islamic Iran is investigated and recreated in the context of symbolic concepts of culture, including purification.With the arrival of Islam, the concepts of “purity” and “impurity” were redefined, in which the concepts and applications of impure and pure were occasionally changed, developed, and limited. Actions and behavior of the Iranian people towards the new concepts and teachings – which undoubtedly were influenced by previous convergence, compatibility, and background of Iran – created a new culture and semantic system, which as Iranian-Islamic culture, are the subject of the present article.