Islam and Management makes a case most management literature never considers: that the Islamic tradition has its own developed approach to running an organization, one that predates and, the author argues, outperforms much of what modern management theory treats as new.
Why This Gap Exists
Contemporary managers have widened their search for effective theory across East and West, and even to ancient schools of thought — while largely overlooking the Islamic approach, despite its lasting influence on generations of leaders and researchers who studied it directly. This book sets out to close that specific gap.
What the Book Covers
The topics are the ones any management text would cover — organizational culture, planning, organizing, leading, motivating, controlling, competition, conflict management and human resource management — each examined through the teachings of Islam and the lived experience of Muslim leaders. A dedicated chapter on the leadership of ’Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph, grounds the theory in a specific historical example rather than leaving it abstract.
Who This Book Is For
Managers of any background looking to broaden their theoretical toolkit, and Muslim managers in particular, for whom the approach here aligns directly with values they already hold rather than requiring translation into a foreign framework.
