Measuring Islamic Spiritual Intelligence

The aim of this paper is to develop a reliable and valid scale for measuring Islamic spiritual intelligence (ISI) quotient. This paper embarks with an overview on the concept of Islamic leader's characteristics or nature. It discusses on the four characteristics of an Islamic leader should have. The contemporary spiritual intelligence measure the cores of critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness and conscious state expansion. This core spiritual intelligence however does not represent the Islamic perspective in general. Therefore, this study will include the characteristic of Siddiq (truthfulness), Amanah (responsible), Tabligh (deliver), and Fatanah (Wisdom) to shape the Islamic spiritual intelligence. As an attempt to develop a reliable and valid measures, a few reliability and validity tests will be conducted. As a result, Siddiq, Tabligh and Fatanah are acceptable constructs to measure the ISI. This study showed that Islamic spiritual intelligence can lead us to appreciate more the greatness of Allah and help us to fulfill our role as the khalifah (vicegerent of Allah).