A Caliph of our Time, How Abu Bakr's Inaugural Address can Transform Leadership Today

Leadership is complex. It is also a subject of everlasting interest. Books, speeches and advice from accomplished leaders and keen researchers expound its intricacies and offer lessons for those aspiring to leadership. Ancient historical records, divinely guided and revealed scriptures, and modern accounts are all sources of understanding and inspiration about leadership and what it can or cannot accomplish. The common threads that run through the fabric of leadership may be around us as well as bound in the folds of history. Inaugural addresses of exceptional political leaders give us glimpses of how they have envisioned leadership in different times and circumstances. In this book we pry loose leadership lessons in an extraordinary inaugural sermon of a seventh century caliph, finding meanings that illuminate the context of our time and space.