Requirements for making cultural policies based on " Malek ashtar" s covenant

The great position of culture as one of the most fundamental basis of assignment of policies, has convinced scholars for compilation of cultural policy making knowledge but because of the separation of cultural policy making from the existing realities of society would lead to an unsuccessful end, so all basis oriented cultural planners and policy makers keep themselves committed to some principals so that their policy making strategies won’t be in opposition with the defensive approaches of various classes of society. On one hand the historical module of imam Ali (A.S) successful leadership and on the other it’s hand the capability of legitimization, plus the popularity of his ideas in Islamic society, are considered as the reasonable understanding of cultural policy making necessities from the view point of the first Shia’s Imam, therefore under designing this subject, at first understanding the concept of policy making, and then through cross referencing of sociologic studies with “Malek Ashtar”s covenant, the following eight principals for cultural policy makings have been obtained: Obligation to religious identity of the society, consideration of the different social classes and societies sub-cultures, classification applying of the policies in facing activists and society members, adjusting a suitable punishment and reward system in policy making, considering the social relations of the society members in policy making, hesitating from unfitting heresy with society’s culture, necessity of supervision and evaluation of the employee’s and paying attention to intangible cultural heritages. And then considering of the calculative necessities kinds, policy making approach based on “Malek Ashtar”s covenant, a macro-oriented approach of objectivism kind based on humanistic and Islamic ideals has been defined.