Bad Leadership: An Examination Of Skill, Desire, And Adaptability In The Qur'an

Bad leadership is a relatively new complex topic. It has been an understudied theme in academic literature and an underappreciated topic among practitioners. The Qur’an support the seven types of bad leadership as suggested by Kellerman and the Qur’an deepen our understanding of this topic. Qur’an speaks about good and bad leadership. Probably, that is the first study to speak about the different kinds of bad leadership and to analyze it under the shade of Qur’an such as: incompetent, rigid, intemperate, callous, corrupt, insular, wicked. Bad leadership in the Qur’an is a new subject in this study. Leaders may be bad in terms of skill or morality. And it is possible to be bad in both. The Qur’an looks at the ongoing costs of bad leadership and the benefits of its study. It argues quite convincingly that bad leadership has a lingering and multigenerational effect. The aim of this study to define bad leadership in Western and Islamic perspectives, to analyze and discuss the Qur’anic verses related to the subject of bad leadership, to extract lessons from the different types of bad leadership in the Qur’an. This study uses textual analysis of the Qur’an and Western literature and discourse analysis to draw parallels between both as well as conclusions on the way to successful leadership.