A research on theoretical approaches to the Islamic management

Islamic management is a concern of those who believe in Islam as a perfect and complete religion. Several theorists have attempted to identify and introduce this concept from different point of views that leads to development of concept of Islamic management. The objective of this article is to introduce and categorize this different point of views. First of all, this article, divides Islamic management theories within two major groups: the old one (from the emergence of Islam to 19th century) and contemporary (after 19th century up to now especially after Islamic revolution of Iran). We used comparative research method to recognize different views on Islamic management and categorize them. First of all, we search to find books or articles written about Islamic management. Then we tried to understand the point of view of authors toward Islamic management and compare the main stream of these texts according to Fred Lootans (1972). this study led us to categorize different views to Islamic management to following approaches:1. Growth approach to Islamic management2. Principle approach3. Traits of Islamic managers approach4. Functions of Islamic managers approach5. The impact of Islamic values on management approach We tries throw this article to introduce definition of Islamic management, the fundamentals and most famous theorists of each approach.