پيشنيازهاي فرهنگي توسعه اقتصادي از ديدگاه اسلام

Cultural Prerequisites of Economic Development: An Islamic View

Iran is a developing country in world economic categories. This transition has special important for our society because we want development and on the other hand we try to preserve our values and identity, accordingly this great evolution has high sensitivity specially if we consider that there is no Islamic state which can achieve to total socioeconomic development and growth. On the other hand some believe that religion is an obstacle for development and we can not be religious and developed together. The article is trying to answer to this main question: is the Islamic culture per se agrees with development or not? To answer this question we should answer two secondary questions: What are the Cultural prerequisites of development? What are the main factors of it? What is the Islam view on Cultural prerequisites of economic development? Answering these questions, we applied content analysis method on religious texts and development literature to find compatibility of Cultural prerequisites of economic development with religious culture. In this article, we conclude that the main Cultural prerequisites of economic development are belief in utility of the world, belief in scientific approach to the issues and the importance of the intellect role, belief in freedom of expression of ideas, belief in equality of mankind and respect to human rights, belief in acceptance of collective order, belief in development and lack of cultural clash in society. These are not in contradiction to Islamic culture. On the other hand there are another factors in Islam which supportdevelopment such as: culture of work and production in Islam, compatibility of spirituality and objectivity, Islam invitation for prettiness, proscribing the poverty, prohibition of profusion, opposition to superstition, invitation to thinking, evidence of human reason, persuasion to empirical methods, considering order and planning, invitation to accomplishing works, belief in ideal society, flexibility of jurisprudence in different situations, invitation to science and industry, Muslim beliefs in power and honor, Muslim duty to reclamation of fields, invitation of Muslims to creative adaptation from others, defense of rights and liberties, justice, peace and coexistence and preserving the environment. These all are compatible with development and by reviving them we can create appropriate infrastructure for total development. development such as: culture of work and production in Islam, compatibility of spirituality and objectivity, Islam invitation for prettiness, proscribing the poverty, prohibition of profusion, opposition to superstition, invitation to thinking, evidence of human reason, persuasion to empirical methods, considering order and planning, invitation to accomplishing works, belief in ideal society, flexibility of jurisprudence in different situations, invitation to science and industry, Muslim beliefs in power and honor, Muslim duty to reclamation of fields, invitation of Muslims to creative adaptation from others, defense of rights and liberties, justice, peace and coexistence and preserving the environment. These all are compatible with development and by reviving them we can create appropriate infrastructure for total development.