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Islamic boarding schools as Islamic dawah institutions adopt a pluralistic point of view. Islamic boarding schools are religious institutions that provide moral guidance, dawah, and Islamic education. They are institutions that experience conjunctions and the romance of life in facing internal and external challenges. However, a rigid leadership style still can be found since they maintain old traditionsthat remainsophisticatedin dealing with external problems. This study aims to analyze situational leadership at Islamic boarding schools in Central Lampung Regency. This study is a qualitative descriptive study that the data had been collected from the boarding school leaders, caregivers,administrators, and the students. The data were collected through interviews, observations, and documentation. A triangulation technique had been performed on the data and then followed by data analysis (data reduction, data presentation, and concluding). The analysis revealed that the situational leadership on the Telling, Selling, Participating, and Delegating dimensions have been implemented. However, from the four dimensions, the Delegating dimension has not been fully implemented. Besides, the delegating dimension is given to the caregivers and administrators with an M4 maturity level and given to the M3 maturity level. Of the four dimensions, the participating dimension is more widely implemented.

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