Socio-Economic Development and Muslim Countries' Islamic Solidarity through Globalization : A Comparative Study of 51 Countries of the Muslim World , including Iran , 2006 - 2005

Abstract

Since today the formation of regional alliances is considered as a key tool for improving changes of the structure and contributing to the balanced development among the underdeveloped countries. Therefore, the importance and status of Muslim countries’ Islamic solidarity is more evident as before. This effort appears to be that Muslim countries have not still achieved an agreement to raise the level of educational- technical exchanges between themselves. Despite the significant facilities to grow and develop some Muslim countries in recent decades, trade relations and socio-economic cooperation, educational development is not so much between countries. Muslim countries because of not being fully aware of their abilities and opportunities with which they face are doing more than 90 percent of their trade, social and educational exchanges to non-Muslim countries now. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the issue of economic cooperation among Muslim countries as a strategy for economic growth and development of the Muslim world, so that regional arrangements have been considered by Muslim countries. Bilateral or multilateral cooperation of Muslim countries together as well as their cooperation in the outlined framework, and also as well as their participation in the regional alliances consisted of Muslim countries, can be another important factor to develop economic cooperation in the Muslim world. So if geographically Muslim countries have been examined, today, about 57 Muslim countries have about 20% of the world population (1.217 billion people) and more than 21% of territory around the world, unfortunately human development index ranking in the Muslim countries is low compared to other countries.