International Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of the Values of Muslim Societies; A Plan for the Worldwide Propagation of the Religion (Within the framework of Islamic philosophy and Hikmah)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD student in entrepreneurship, Tehran University of Science and Research

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Management and Economics, Tehran University of Science and Research

10.22081/jip.2023.65733.1085

Abstract

The present article is based on the hypothesis of the possibility of interaction between international entrepreneurship and the values of Muslim societies as business opportunities and, as a result, preparing clauses and topics for the propagation of the religion in the global arena. According to this hypothesis, entrepreneurship based on the values of Muslim societies can provide new topics for global religious propagation, and global religious propagation can add more variety and depth to studies related to entrepreneurship. Considering that all theories of humanities are based on the principles (foundations and methods), the five main branches of philosophy such as ontology, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics and politics, in the current research in a case-oriented qualitative comparative study with inductive strategy in the framework of philosophy and Islamic Hikmah (wisdom) are defined as the main principles. These principles give direction and meaning to the theorist's point of view about what is the world, knowledge, man, society, human values and the role of religion in human life. After identifying business opportunities in the form of five main branches of philosophy, in the second step, the adaptation of these five branches has been determined as five independent variables and their effect on the dependent variable of the global propagation of religion has been examined. What will be dealt with in this article, just to mention a few examples in the form of allegorical induction, will be to defend the hypothesis that cultural diversity, especially the values of Muslim societies, such as halal and haram, riba (bribe), chastity and hijab, cause the emergence of business in international arena. Reflecting these opportunities in the form of product production and providing services in the international arena is a tool to propagate the religion in the global arena.

Keywords