Every human being should be a leader both for himself and his family. In reality, not all of human can become leader
who are leading the people they lead. This swriting is going to describe the situational leaders who have a leadership
style in accordance with the prevailing circumstances of the current rapid social change in the context of islamic
education. To explain the situational leadership in islamic education, this paper reviewed various islamic literatures
both national and internation cotext. Therefore, the findings of this resaerch were the leadership in islamic intitution
is not able to adjust the situation with the current changes. Morever, the Islamic educational institution a leader leads
will not be able to compete with the general and Islamic educational institutions that have modernized using the
curriculum desired by the government and outside community.