Identifying and Prioritizing the Key Success Factors of Mosques in the Field of Education

The key factors of success in achieving the goals or failure of any institution and organization play a key role. This research was done with the aim of identifying and prioritizing the key success factors of mosques in the field of education. In this research, a combined method has been used. In the qualitative part and with thematic analysis method, the key factors of the success of mosques in the field of education were identified by examining twelve successful mosques and prioritized in the next step by analyzing the importance-performance.The results of the article indicate that the success model of mosques includes the dimensions of "role players, systems, interactions and contexts". The key factors for the success of mosques in the field of education are: "Leader of Eswah", "Educational system that creates staff", "Organizational educational development in the sisters' department", "Cohesion of religious organizations", "Comprehensiveness and appropriateness of education", "Interaction with students and seminary", "interaction between mosque, school and family", "Jihadist spirit", "removing obstacles to youth activity", "expanding the mission" and "peripheral service"). Among the key factors of success, the highest priority is assigned to the components of "Eswah Leader", "Educational Training System" and "Organizational Educational Development in the Sisters Department". It seems that the leverage point of change in mosques from the educational aspect is identifying and cultivating talents for leadership, discovering and presenting models of the organizational education system, and paying special attention to the care and prosperity of the sisters.