Document Type : Scientific-Research Article

Authors

• Mohammad Saeed Mahdavi Kani
• Meysam Farrokhi

Abstract

Mosques are among social institutions where leadership, including clerical leadership, holds a high and significant status and plays an influential role in giving them dignity. Thus, the author has tried to evaluate clerical and spiritual leadership of Safa Mosque to elucidate those factors that led to its success. Based on selected modeling and by using interviews and non-participatory observation, the involved indexes have been analyzed and evaluated. Then 11 aspects of the selected model have been taken into consideration, and the data gathered through interviews and reports have been presented in a table in relation to each of those aspects. These data have then been codified on the basis of leadership literature and organizational behavior. A comprehensive leadership model is then described. Sustained activity of a cleric in mosque, his invitation of others' participation, his being accepted as a model example for his audience, his favorable interaction with the youths and learners, can be taken as some of the causes and major factors of leadership in Safa Mosque.

Keywords

• Leadership
• Mosque
• distinguished qualification approach
• behavioral approach
• appropriateness approach