Evaluating the development level of different Iranian provinces using Islamic criteria
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Zahra Nasrolahi , Maryam Mirhoseini , Samaneh Kargarian , Ali Foruzandeh  |
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Abstract: (17930 Views) |
Nowadays the
sustainable development has become one the main goals of the governments and states.
On the other hand, an evaluation of the development history in the west shows
that the main aim of the capitalist system in development is to reach economic
welfare which simply originates from the western materialistic worldview. On
the contrary, the main aim of the development in Islam is the spiritual
progress of the human beings. The differences between Islam and the west
considering the concept of development, is just because of their differences in
defining human and bliss. In the capitalistic framework, development means that
all political, economic, social and cultural systems of the country try to work
hard for reaching the economic growth. It means that in this viewpoint, it is
the economic matter that all the plans should focus on. The materialistic
worldview is the origin of such beliefs. However, in an Islamic context, the
aim is not just the economic situation of the country. But other spiritual
dimensions are considered equally important. In fact, in Islam, development
means strengthening the society, as a whole, toward the “Seir Ela Allah”. From this point of view, the economic
development would be a way not a goal. Considering this point of view, this
paper tries to shed some lights on the Islamic development indexes and compare
it to that of conventional economics. Then, it tries to rank the Iranian
provinces using these indexes. Shannon Entropy and TOPSIS method are used for
classifying the provinces. The results show that Gom, Tehran and Khorasan
Razavi are the first three tops according to the considered indexes. |
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Keywords: : Islamic system, capitalist system, Iranian provinces, Shannon Entropy, TOPSIS method, multi-criteria decision making |
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Article type: Research |
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General Received: 2013/10/22 | Accepted: 2013/10/22 | Published: 2013/10/22
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