Islamic leadership contains kinds of leadership qualities like trust, justice and certainty. These deep-seated unique qualities change and develop only slowly over time. The current study stands to investigate the level of these types of rates among Malaysian Armed Forces Officers; the problem addressed by this study was whether the MAF officers understand the principles of Islamic leadership and lead the other ranks according to these principles or not. The researcher adopted analytical and descriptive approaches in this study. The study was conducted via the Quantitative method, and the study draws from analysis of data taken from the questionnaire. The result of the study showed that the influence of Islamic principles on leadership approaches used among the Malaysian Armed Forces to be high. The development of the study further showed that power influences leadership approach, moral leadership approach, situational approach, bureaucratic approach are highly influenced by Islamic principle. However, Islamic leadership principles have barely influenced the trait leadership approach. Therefore, the study recommends that Military officers should be equipped with requisite Islamic Knowledge that will enhance their leadership qualities to enhance more decentralization of power and delegation of responsibilities.
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To Cite this Article: Salleh, Z. A. M. (2022). Islamic Leadership and Its Practices among Malaysian Armed Forces Officers: An Appraisal. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. 12(6), 806– 815.
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