Investigating the effective indicators in turning the Iranian city into an Islamic global city (cas study: isfahan)

This article is to study and define the Islamic globalcity and identify effective indicators in the transformation of the Islamic city into the Islamic globalcity. For this purpose, it examines the most important factors affecting the emergence of Isfahan as an Islamic city in the world and examines the extent and how these factors affect. This research is applied in terms of purpose and according to the studied components, the approach is the descriptive-analytical method And environmental and Delphi scanning technique has been used to identify variables and indicators. Based on the obtained sources and experts' opinions, out of 168 variables of global city and Islamic City, 51 variables were obtained to identify the global Islamic City. The identified variables were categorized based on the level of impact and placed in Mick Mac software for cross-impact analysis matrix calculations. Finally, 16 variables including GDP, urban market dynamics, diversity and competitiveness of commodity prices, hosting large international companies (top 500 global companies), urban population, number of international direct flights, number of large hotels, Number of foreign visitors, diversity of energy production, attraction capacity of tourist sites, location in main transportation routes, low government interference in the market and market supervision, establishment of international banks, existence of international stock exchanges, number of top universities and the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) were obtained As effective key drivers of Isfahan's transformation into a global city. The results of the findings indicate the fact that the city of Isfahan can be upgraded from a regional city to an Islamic world city if 16 development drivers are considered and strengthened.