Shi a Scholar's Role in Supporting Iranian National Product, Work and Capital

Islamic Republic of Iran has been subjected to several attacks from hegemony system due to its resistance against this system. Economic sanctions and threats are among these attacks. Accordingly, the Supreme Leader proposed resistive economy as the best strategy to confront them. In his view, a good modus operand is to support Iranian national product, work and capital. Since our country was always subjected to such threats and sanctions in the past, the present paper seeks to answer the following question: what were Shi’a scholars’ modus operands and activities to support Iranian national product, work and capital in our historical experience? To answer this question, Shi’a scholars’ functions and sayings in Qajar period, which was the period of West’s economic attack on Iran, were studied in historical texts using the method of “qualitative content analysis”. The results show that Shi’a scholars have had a great role in this respect through issuing declarations to sanction foreign goods and promote domestic ones, encouraging and supporting the establishment of domestic economic companies and practical commitment to use domestic goods, and contentment in life.