The Role of Religious Scholars and Intellectuals in the Leading and Managing the Islamic Awakening from Imam Khamenei's point of view

Social and organizational changes depend on many factors and components to achieve goals and ideals. The main requirement is the presence and activities of powerful and competent leaders, managers, and administers for leading the various social complexes towards the predetermined purposes. As a great social phenomenon, the Islamic awakening is in need of efficient and effective leadership for achieving its purposes and ideals, the modern Islamic civilization. This research is intended to fill the gap in the scientific situation of this issue. This is a basic research following a qualitative-exploratory method based on theme analysis of the sayings and ideas of the supreme leader. It presents a model for leadership and guidance. Atlas.ti (software for Qualitative Data Analysis) was employed for theme analysis. The results indicated that there are 3 comprehensive themes, 11 organizing themes, and 30 main themes for this model. Finally, some suggestions for future researches are presented for administrative specialists.