Combined Indicator of Religious Capital and Ranking of the Provinces of Iran Using by Multi-Criteria Decision Making Patterns

Theoretical studies show that religious capital is the most important capital of a society. Today, communities need direct focus on religious capital to grow and develop its economy. Because the religious capital, the origin of which is the heart faith, makes the trust between people increases, risk and uncertainty, and individuals gain greater utility from performing religious recommendations. Over time these religious recommendations are established in the form of a new law and norms in society, which consequently accelerates growth and economic development in society. in this research, according to its theoretical basics, first to examine the religious capital and its indices in the DELPHI method, then using AHP method, religious capital indices have been made using Expert choice software. the three indices of religious capital, which have the highest characteristics from the perspective of experts, Qarzulhasanah deposit, the amount of Zakat and the number of Martyrs in the first to third, respectively. then, according to the data collected by 2015 using TOPSIS model, the ranking of Iran provinces has been done. the first to third of which includes the most religious capital is Yazd, south Khorasan and Qom