Educational Centers and Islamic Culturology

In modern industrial societies, universities, in addition to functions such as production of knowledge (research), transmission of knowledge (education), dissemination of knowledge (services) and shaping the direction of culture, are the main sources of scientific and technological evolutions, and socio-cultural movements in the social, economic, political and cultural relations of society. They also provide different social, economic, political and cultural sectors with expert human resources. Various needs of different sectors of the country, on the one hand, and the gap between the function of Iranian universities and the objectives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, on the other hand, have made it a necessity to deal with the concept of university cultural engineering. Cultural engineering as a strategic approach is capable of addressing this need. The present article seeks to explicate and define the necessities for this purpose and theorize about university cultural engineering.