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Sustainable economic growth and development is one of the most significant missions of every country which should be attained through economic regime framework. According to Islamic concepts of justice, security and economic growth are the objectives of the Islamic economic school and are necessary for achieving public prosperity. This research studies the possibility of financing social businesses within the Islamic economic framework in the Iranian capital market. In this study, the conceptual frameworks regarding social businesses in recent decade are surveyed and an operational model is presented for financing social businesses and the infrastructure projects. The findings reveal that there is a possibility for creating a 'social business market' and also for issuance of securities named 'qard al hasanah' which could be used for financing and developing social businesses.

Islamic finance has been surprisingly undertheorized in the international relations literature. In this paper, I fill this gap by investigating the dynamics of mainstreaming within the Islamic finance regime in global markets. Using the norm diffusion literature, I argue that the development and diffusion of Islamic economics, and the corresponding expertise, have followed three distinct steps. First, Islamic economics initially was a critique of capitalism and world markets; second, it was "nationalized" by the political leaders of major Muslim-majority countries; and third, it became an integral part of world markets. By tracing the development of Islamic finance as part of global politics, I situate it within a theoretical framework and show the wider implications of this economic framework for global politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion that Islam offers a blueprint for a viable and vibrant society is well established in theory and history. However, the evolution of the economic dimension of the Islamic social order founded on interest-free economy into a globe-wide alternative ideological contender in political economics has a history that is less than half a century old. The first modern experiment with Islamic banking being undertaken in 1963 in Egypt and the first international academic conference on Islamic economic system was held in Jeddah in 1976. Prior to these ventures, many Muslim communities and nations practiced interest-free commerce under colonial economic regimes, under the states that succeeded these colonial governments, and before colonisation came to be. For Muslims in Nigeria, the challenges that inspired the early initiatives on Islamic economic system remain, and they remain in an atmosphere of economic woes, the centre of which is widespread and grinding poverty such that the middle class in Nigeria remains middle, in the last thirty years, only in the social sense but relegated to the lower class in the economic sense. Though two conventional banks offer interest-free banking services, interest-free economic atmosphere in Nigeria largely endures in the realm of theories, experimentation and intuitive practice in contraindication to the population of Muslim citizens, Muslim rulers and Muslim policy makers in Nigeria. The university community typifies the middle class in Nigeria and this paper sets out to examine issues surrounding Nigeria's absence on the global map of Islamic Banking and Finance and the opportunities obtainable to address Muslim poverty and absence in the global shari'ah compliant economy using the university of Ilorin as a case study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the Islamic Republic's several privatization programs in the last 18 years to reduce state economic dominance. The way in which the 1979 Constitution has been amended is also discussed. Iranian President Ahmadinejad's cherished scheme to distribute a portion of public assets among the poor as justice shares is described. It appraise the new measures' prospects for achieving the goal of social justice. The first period of privatization was carried out by virtue of the First Development Plan's authorization, albeit in an unplanned, haphazard and chaotic manner.