Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective

The topic of female leadership has yet to be sufficiently and impartially investigated, especially from the Islamic perspective. It seems that Muslim societies do not favour appointing women as leaders of their nations, yet Muslims are in need of authentic patterns of female leadership to be imitate...

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Main Author:	Hilal, Huda Mohammad Hassan
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	IIUM Press 2015
Subjects:	BL Religion HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/5/46720_Matching_leadership_qualities.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/8/46720_Matching%20leadership%20qualities%20of%20male%20and%20female_SCOPUS.pdf

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spelling	iium-467202017-12-12T10:07:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/ Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective Hilal, Huda Mohammad Hassan BL Religion HQ The family. Marriage. Woman The topic of female leadership has yet to be sufficiently and impartially investigated, especially from the Islamic perspective. It seems that Muslim societies do not favour appointing women as leaders of their nations, yet Muslims are in need of authentic patterns of female leadership to be imitated in the 21st century. The current study bridges the gap between original Qur’ānic teachings and dominant culture by highlighting the Qur’ānic conceptualisation of female leadership. And investigates the myth that only men are the best leaders. It identifies a set of global women who had led their societies formally or informally, as mentioned in the Qur’ān, namely Queen Āsyā, Queen Balqīs and Maryam the daughter of Imran. And matches it with the Qur’ānic male leadership derived from some parables of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH), Dhūl-Qarniyyn, Țālūt, and Prophet Suliyymān. The research documents leader’s personality, leader-follower relation, task structure and crisis management as four principal axes to the study, relying on the dominant theories of leadership. The inference reveals conformity between both male and female patterns of leadership, except for minor differences related to physical strength, and conducting wars. IIUM Press 2015-09-15 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/5/46720_Matching_leadership_qualities.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/8/46720_Matching%20leadership%20qualities%20of%20male%20and%20female_SCOPUS.pdf Hilal, Huda Mohammad Hassan (2015) Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective. Intellectual Discourse, 23 (1). pp. 16-18. ISSN 0128-4878 http://journals.iium.edu.my/intdiscourse/index.php/islam
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description	The topic of female leadership has yet to be sufficiently and impartially investigated, especially from the Islamic perspective. It seems that Muslim societies do not favour appointing women as leaders of their nations, yet Muslims are in need of authentic patterns of female leadership to be imitated in the 21st century. The current study bridges the gap between original Qur’ānic teachings and dominant culture by highlighting the Qur’ānic conceptualisation of female leadership. And investigates the myth that only men are the best leaders. It identifies a set of global women who had led their societies formally or informally, as mentioned in the Qur’ān, namely Queen Āsyā, Queen Balqīs and Maryam the daughter of Imran. And matches it with the Qur’ānic male leadership derived from some parables of Prophet Muḥammad (PBUH), Dhūl-Qarniyyn, Țālūt, and Prophet Suliyymān. The research documents leader’s personality, leader-follower relation, task structure and crisis management as four principal axes to the study, relying on the dominant theories of leadership. The inference reveals conformity between both male and female patterns of leadership, except for minor differences related to physical strength, and conducting wars.
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title	Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective
title_short	Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective
title_full	Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective
title_fullStr	Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective
title_full_unstemmed	Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective
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publisher	IIUM Press
publishDate	2015
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/5/46720_Matching_leadership_qualities.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/46720/8/46720_Matching%20leadership%20qualities%20of%20male%20and%20female_SCOPUS.pdf
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Matching leadership qualities of male and female leadership from the Quranic perspective

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