Xxxv1th Congress of Asian and North
African Studies
August 27- September 2.2000.
Abu_bakre: Leadership in Crisis
By Mazin S. Motabagani, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Orientalistics
Department of Orientalism
Faculty of Da’wa, Al- Madinah
Al-Munawwarah
Islamic University of Muhammad Ben
Saud
Introduction
Few years ago, I submitted a
proposal to an international conference in the field of Middle Eastern Studies
titled “The World’s need for Political Leadership: Abu_bakre an Islamic
Example.” The reason for that choice was the many articles published in Western
media and transmitted to Arab readership through some columnists complained
that the present day leadership all over the world lacked the qualities
possessed by the historical leadership in the West such as Churchill,
Eisenhower, Kennedy, George Washington or even Hitler. I thought at that time
that our Islamic leaders are not mentioned at all, even though we have great
leaders by any standards.
The subject was
turned down by that conference in spite of having a Muslim scholar who lived in
the West for more than thirty years review my proposal to check that the
proposal fits the academic criteria of an objective proposal. Anyhow when the
chance came to submit a proposal to this conference I went back to the old
proposal and changed few sentences here and there and changed the title and
without consulting anyone I sent it. Luckily the proposal was not only accepted
but the organizing committee proposed that a whole panel be devoted to this
topic and asked me to invite three scholars to join me in the panel.
I
understand the reasons for refusing the first proposal. They were apprehensive
that I started with prejudgment of the qualities of Abu_bakre. The matter is
that the situation faced by Abu_Bakre was that of total chaos. If it wasn’t for
the leadership qualities of Abu_Bakre order would have been impossible to
restore.
Since
the paper is about leadership in crisis and Abu-Bakre then this paper will be
divided into two main sections:
Firstly:
A brief biography of Abu Bakre
Secondly:
The definition of political crisis and how did Abu-Bakre handle these crisis?
Thirdly :Conclusion and references
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