Islamic-Based Educational Leadership, Administration and Management

Khalid Arar is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, Education and Community Leadership, School Improvement Doctoral Program, College of Education, Texas State University, USA.Rania Sawalhi is Programming Manager, Qatar Foundation, Qatar.Amaarah DeCuir is Lecturer, School of Education, American University, USA.Tasneem Amatullah is Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Assessment and School Evaluation Division, Emirates College for Advanced Education in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Arar, Sawalhi, DeCuir and Amatullah have expertly gathered scholars from around the world to examine Islamic based educational leadership from multiple perspectives. In doing so, they’ve uncovered critical insights that transcend entrenched socio-cultural and political boundaries, showing readers that there is no ‘typical’ Islamic educational leader. This must-read book reveals the remarkable diversity within ‘Islam-based educational leadership’ and the extraordinary impact the world’s fastest growing religion has on leading schools. It is not to be missed! – Associate Professor Melanie C. Brooks, Associate Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia A unique and timely collection of articles from across the globe, unveiling the essential tenets of Islamic-based educational leadership and administration while recognising the contextual variations and resulting practices. The four guiding elements can be a starting point for further developing a field of knowledge currently skewed towards Western conceptualisations. – Saeeda Shah, University of Leicester (Retd.) This co-edited volume introduces a novel concept, Islam-based educational leadership, as a way to conceptualize the current state of educational leadership practices pertinent to Muslims and Islam. Moreover, the authors ungird this type of leadership in community-informed religious knowledge and practices that decree social justice. This text is a unique and valuable contribution to the field.– Miriam D. Ezzani, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Texas Christian University

• Introduction 1: A call to re-explore Islamic-based educational leadership in new lenses 2: The Islamic "Khilafah" Model to Educational Leadership: From the Prolegomena to Desiderata 3: Managing emotions in schools: Insights from religion sources and a model for school leadership 4: Be the light: Islamic-based teacher leadership 5: Islamic Antiracist School Leadership 6: Islamic-based educational leadership in UK higher education: Balancing securitization, marketization and Islamic values 7: Educational Leadership in a Muslim and Secular Country: The Case of Turkey 8: Schooling system and administration practices of religious education: The case of Imam-Hatip schools of Turkey 9: Islamic Educational Leadership: Southeast Asia perspectives 10: UAE school reforms and leadership: What can be learned from Muslim scholars’ perspectives and contemporary insights? 11: Islamic Educational Leadership and a Model Islamic High school: Insights from Turkey 12: An Untold Narrative of a Female Muslim Educational Leader 13: Islamic Humanocracy and Educational Leadership: The Story of a Community School in Egypt 14: From community to the state to individual preachers: The vicissitudes of traditional Islamic Studies in Malaysia 15: Concluding Remarks