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Author

• Reza Javid

PhD in cultural sociologyUniversity of Guilan,.

Abstract

One of the backgrounds of Iran's constitutional revolution was the emergence of theological discourse that affected the economy and politics of that time. Iran's economic weakness and powerlessness against the expanding global capitalism became evident in the era of privileges, especially with the tobacco privilege, and reached its peak. The incident of tobacco was the confrontation of theology against tyranny and colonialism. After the tobacco movement and related to it, a type of economic theology was formed, whose claim was economic self-sufficiency against foreigners, reliance on national production, emphasis on work culture and wealth production. Its teachings were not dissimilar to the teachings of the Protestant religion and the action aimed at the worldly salvation of believers, as well as its impact on the formation of capitalism and western production enterprises. Here, just like what happened to the Protestantism movement, we witness the formation of a type of economic theology that declares its goal to be worldly salvation and self-sufficiency of believers. This article, using Max Weber's analytical and explanatory method regarding the teachings of Protestantism and the conditions for the emergence of capitalist business enterprises in the West, examines the impact of the economic theology of Seyyed Jamaluddin Vaez Esfahani on the formation of economic action and its concrete embodiment in the establishment of " Islamic company".

Keywords

• economic theology
• Weber
• Jamaluddin‌ Vaez
• Islamic company