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