Cultural Drivers of Mosques in Social Harms Management

The mosque has a valuable place in Islamic culture and plays an important role in social systems. The mosque, as an influential institution in the social arena, has many important elements and factors that can manage social harms. These important elements are called cultural drivers. A proper understanding of the cultural drivers makes social policymakers take advantage of the mosque's cultural potential to manage social harms. This paper aims to identify and analyze the cultural drivers of mosques and determine the relationships between them to manage social harms. The main question is: What are the cultural drivers of mosques in the management of social harms and what is the relationship between these cultural drivers? To solve the research problem, the researcher used the qualitative content analysis method to find the cultural drivers and then analyzed the relationships between each of the identified cultural drivers using the interpretive structural method. The identified cultural drivers are development and expansion of jihadi groups, promotion of religious values in neighborhoods, development of social vitality, development and expansion of recreational sports activities, central role of mosque in neighborhoods, utilization of peripheral capacities, and the high social status of mosques among the people. These cultural drivers were structured in six levels