Ethical Management Bases in Islamic Theory

Abstract

It is not impetuous to say that management has been practiced since the creation of human being. Individuals works together and has learned how to be more effective, which was very critical for their survival. After that, civilizations emerged and each one of them set management principles (even if it is not written one in some cases).Principles that has been the guidance to their domination and fingerprint making through history. However, Islam emerged in the Middle Ages era, in the time when management science was practices but not schooled yet. Nevertheless, Muslims had built very strong civilizations in very short time. Islamic civilization has something distinguish that gave it the power to raise and overcome in a very short time. In a period of a time that surrounding nations had their own style of management to run their civilizations. As found, Islam has its own philosophy for management, and it has main practices for it. This Philosophy seems to be comprehensive especially when dealing with individuals, work, and learning. The center of philosophy is ethics. It frames all the principles and practices, which distinguished Islamic philosophy form many other ones. However, this article tackles the Islamic philosophy and how can modern nations get benefits from it. It tries to present this distinguish factor that helps Islamic nation to lead the world in many aspects and it tries to set focus on the main management principles of Islamic theory.