Concepts of Charisma and Leadership in Bambara and Persian

The article deals with the concepts of charisma and leadership in two non-Western Islamic cultures from linguistic perspective. charismatic have a long tradition studying sociology, political science psychology since M.Weber. Charisma can be defined as compelling attractiveness or charm that inspire devotion others. Cognates this Greek word are found most European languages. English leader has been borrowed by many related non-related questions we addressing are: How to translate into Bambara Persian? What Persian words translated leader? is origin these function within languages cultures? To answer analyze wide range lexicographic textual sources. We come conclusion, both vocabularies consist layers different origin: Soninke Manding Bambara, Iranian Altaic Persian, Arabic Despite histories Islamization languages, though influenced Arabic, kept their core what concerns leadership.