Components of the Leader from the Perspective of Islamic Education

This research aims to investigate the nature of the mental and spiritual components of the individual that build one’s leadership from the Islamic education perspective. The researcher applied the Information Retrieval Method, tracing the collection of information and evidence from its original sources, analyzing it, and explaining the rationale for its reasoning and presentation. Research findings show that the individual’s mental and spiritual characteristics consist of three components: one’s instinct, one’s knowledge and what s/he inherited effortlessly. In conclusion, an integrated leader in Islamic education is one who combines his/her innate nature, inherited leadership skills from his/her environment along with the knowledge acquired through experience, effort and hard work.