Jurnal Ilmiah Mandala Education (JIME) Vol 10 No. 1 Januari 2024 p-ISSN : 2442-9511, e-2656-5862 DOI: 10.58258/jime.v9i1.6482/http://ejournal.mandalanursa.org/index.php/JIME 31 | The relationship of transformational leadership of the head of the madrasa and boarding school with the tahfizd ability of the Qur'an students at MA Shaykh Zainuddin NW Anjani (Sibawaih) The relationship of transformational leadership of the head of the madrasa and boarding school with the tahfizd ability of the Qur'an students at MA Shaykh Zainuddin NW Anjani Sibawaih 1 , Ahyar Rasidi 2 , Yudin Citriadin 3 , Dwi Wahyudiati 4 State Islamic University of Mataram Article Info Abstract Article history: Accepted: 30 December 2023 Publish: 02 Janauary 2024 The transformational leadership of the head of the Madrasah and boarding school is a unity that supports in determining the success of students to become tahfizd al-Qur'an. Madrasah that applies its learning with the boarding school system which is its flagship program is tahfizd al-qur'an. This study used a quantitative approach with a type of survey research. The total population in this study amounted to 100 people while the sample amounted to 49 people. To obtain data in this study, questionnaires were used, data analysis used SPSS 16 and multiple correlation coefficients. The results showed that the double correlation coefficient analysis obtained a value of 0.788. After being tested significantly with an F test at a significant level of 5%, there was a significant relationship between transformational leadership and boarding school with students' Qur'anic tahfizd ability and the magnitude of transformational leadership and boarding school contribution with students' Qur'anic tahfiz proficiency at MA Shaykh Zainuddin NW Anjani of 0.605. Keywords: Transformational leadership Boarding School Tahfizd Al-Qur'an Article Info Abstrak Article history: Accepted: 30 Desember 2023 Published: 02 Januari 2024 Kepemimpinan transformasional kepala Madrasah dan boarding school merupakan satu kesatuan yang menunjang dalam menentukan keberhasilan siswanya menjadi tahfizd al-Qur’an. Madrasah yang menerapkan pembelajarannya dengan sistem boarding school yang menjadi program unggulannya adalah tahfizd al-qur’an. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan jenis penelitian surve. Jumlah populasi dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 100 orang sedangkan sampelnya berjumlah 49 orang. Untuk memperoleh data dalam penelitian ini digunakan angket,analisis data yang digunakan SPSS 16 dan koefesien korelasi ganda. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan analisis koefesien korelasi ganda didapatkan nilai sebesar 0,788. Setelah diuji signifikan dengan uji F pada taraf signifikan 5% terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara kepemimpinan transformasional dan boarding school dengan kemampuan tahfizd al-qur’an siswa serta besarnya kontribusi kepemimpinan transformasional dan boarding school dengan kemamapuan tahfiz al-qur’an siswa di MA Syaikh Zainuddin NW Anjani sebesar 0.605. This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Corresponding Author: Name of Corresponding Author, Ahyar Rasidi State Islamic University of Mataram Email : ahyarrasidi13@gmail.com 1. INTRODUCTION The development and progress of madrasah depends on the leadership applied by a madrasah head. This leadership concept needs to be done to manage and advance an institution until the achievement of the vision and mission that has been made. In terms of this transformational leadership concept, it needs to be addressed. According to Danim, through the transformational leadership model, all the potential of learning organizations can be transformed into actual in order to achieve the goals of the institution (Danim et al. 2020). According to Inom and Sri that transformational leadership is a leadership approach by making efforts to change awareness, raise enthusiasm and inspire subordinates or organizational members to spend extra effort in achieving organizational goals (Pratiwi et al 2020). Therefore, transformational leadership is conceptually and theoretically better understood as a leadership style that engages followers, inspires followers, and is committed to realizing a shared vision and goals for an organization, as well as challenging followers to become innovative problem