THE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF THE MOSQUE IN MALAYSIA: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

The Mosque has been one of the most important institutions in Islamic history since the establishment of the Quba mosque by Prophet Muhammad SAW. In Malaysia, the mosque has played a vital role in the spread of dakwah and help Islamic missionary in providing knowledge towards society. However, this vital role cannot be achieved without an effective management of the mosques. The management practices are different between each mosque in Malaysia and some mosque applied the quality management system which has been practiced in the public and private sectors such as 5S and TQM. The applicability of this management into the mosque has attracted many researchers to study and many suggestions have been provided. However, the arguments between the researchers are diverse and thus this research investigate all the argument made by the researchers by using narrative review. The narrative reviews approach was employed in undertaking the literature search for selected articles based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The focus of narrative reviews is to identify common themes across research regarding mosque and management system in Malaysia that then can be used to identify commonalities and critical differences among included documents. The paper utilises interpretive inquiry of the texts mainly from the related literature in the research area. The findings reveal that researchers' views on mosque and the management system are varied. Although majority researchers agree that the implementation of management system bring benefit to the mosque, there are some researchers disagree as it is not based on the Islamic philosophy. Another point to consider, this research also found out that the type of management that has been suggested by the government of Malaysia towards the mosque were poorly discussed and researched by the researchers in Malaysia