Codifying a community development pattern in Islamic City

Local community development topic, in spite of a relatively long history in scientific and executive texts, are considered by the West in the late 1980s as a local development and as a major issue. However, in the Islamic cities, the topic of the community development in spite of its epistemological foundations has been considered less, and there are few written sources available, and the number of books and research published in this regard are very few. Therefore, recognizing the indices and their importance for developing the model in order to community development which is appropriate with Islamic cities condition can make this planning approach more effective than before. In this regard, the aim of this paper is to recognize the elements of the community development model and the method of this research with regards to research questions and goals is qualitative that made from two phases of systematic review of literature and survey –unreview by elites by method of Delphi. In this research, the main dimensions of the proposed model, obtained from three rounds of the Delphi method, including four components, 13 criteria and 23 indicators. In this model, the weight of each category and order of the indicators importance in each category are shown. According to research experts, the practical policies of community development with the score of 8/31 is the most important indicators in the community development pattern in the Islamic city which has the criteria such as justice; responsibility, enabling and participation in neighborhoods affairs. The social capital factor in the second place with the score of 8/27, fiscal assets of community with score of 8/23 and institutions and influential factors with the score of 8/15 are in the nest ranks. In the final step f third round in Delphi method, Kendal consistency quotients has been calculated 0/59 for this research that can be trusted normally.