Islam in Iran has a different character and many accept this. Islam in Iran is conceived as something more than religious. It indeed permeated into the whole domains of Iranin Man and this is indeed an indication of the complete devotion of Iranians. Islam is supposed to be the basic and fundamental orientation of Iranians and they have done this. The current state of Iranians in modern world also bespeaks of this key aspect. We call this orientationism and refer to Iranian take of Islam as orientationist. "Orientation is a primary phenomenon of our presence in the world. A human presence has the property of spatializing a world around it, and this phenomenon implies a certain relationship of man with the world, his world, this relationship being determined by the very mode of his presence in the world. Th e four cardinal points, east and west, north and south, are not things encountered by this presence, but directions which express its sense, man's acclimatization to his world, his familiarity with it. To have this sense is to orient oneself in the world. The ideal lines that run from east to west, from north to south form a system of a priori spatial evidences without which there would be neither geographic nor anthropological orientation. And indeed, the contrasts between Eastern man and Western man, between Nordic man and Southern man , regulat e ou r ideological an d characterologica l classifications" (Henri Corbin, THE MAN OF LIGHT IN IRANIAN SUFISM).
Monotheism: Core of Islamic Culture in Iran
