Strategies of Controlling the Market in Imam Ali's Administrative Policies and Procedures

Market control or controlling the market is one of the major concerns in the field of economy in every country and society. Societies make use of certain control mechanisms or procedures in accordance with their cultural and value systems. This research work tries to explore the strategies of market control by studying the ways in which Shi’a Imams have dealt with the problem. Having raised the question “What was Imam Ali’s strategy in controlling the market?”, the researcher tries to explore the historical resources drawing upon library method to gather the necessary data, and then makes analysis of the collected data by the use of the descriptive-analytic method. Finally, he formulated a conceptual model in the form of 2×2 matrix. After formulating the conceptual model and studying Imam Ali’s procedure in this regard, the researcher tries to offer and explain the four kinds of strategies of market control in terms of market conditions and of the approach adopted. These four strategies are as follows: limiting control strategy, diagnostic control strategy, social control strategy and internal control strategy.