The Epistemological Obstacles Of Indigenous Development In Iran

The world development process is the outcome of accumulated mankind experiences. All nations, including Iran, have participated in the present human civilization. In Iran we confronted with the western development epistemology by means of Islamic ontology, but we emphasized on understanding the conceptual principals rather than procedures and processes. The point is that development studies require accentuation of historical and experiential trends. In other words, historical and sociological processes of development should be taken into account with interpretative and identity-based approaches. While instead of such considerations, individual artificial indexes such as factors and agents were detected. In addition, development has been conceived as problem rather than the solution. Hence the proposition of incompatibility of indigenous and western developments has been exaggerated. In this article, we discuss about the main mechanisms and aspects of social development and changes, and consider questions about development from the Islamic and Iranian viewpoint. Finally, an indigenous development as a new approach to development will be introduced.