Prophetic Leadership: Lessons from the Greatest Leader of Prophet Muhammad

Abstract

There is limited academic research specifically focused on prophetic leadership and its implication for the success of modern business organizations. At the same time, prophetic leadership can play a crucial role in providing vision, guidance, and inspiration to employees and stakeholders to focus on long-term sustainable success. Therefore, this study aims to map the concept of prophetic leadership and its related outcomes within organizations. Also, by considering the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) model, this study offers the comprehensive principles and practices associated with prophetic leadership to achieve longterm success. This study includes the term "prophetic leadership" as a reference in "Article title, Abstract and Keywords" based on the Scopus database (from 1979–July 2023). One hundred forty-eight documents are found in the collected data. A comprehensive bibliometric analysis is applied using VOSviewer to analyze the data. In addition, VOSviewer software is utilized in this study to explore the most prolific authors and potential research avenues. The gist of the findings shows that prophetic leadership brings a unique set of qualities and values that can greatly benefit modern business organizations. Prophetic leadership, for instance, prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) indeed provides a clear vision, promotes ethical decision-making, fosters transparency, empowers followers, and develops a mission that encompasses various aspects of life, including spirituality, morality, governance, and social justice, to create the long-term success in this world and the hereafter.