This document summarizes the evolution of research on Islamic marketing from two distinct phases - omission and revelation. During the phase of omission, Muslims were seen as traditional and incompatible with consumerism due to stereotyping. They were seen as an untapped market. The phase of revelation began as Muslims' purchasing power grew and their identities as consumers became more visible. Recent research focuses on understanding Muslim consumers and entrepreneurs in their daily lives rather than emphasizing perceived differences from mainstream consumers. Future research should examine the complex interactions between Islam and marketing without making essentializing assumptions.
Miles Young - Muslim Futurism and Islamic BrandingThink Ethnic
The document summarizes key findings from research conducted by Ogilvy & Mather on Muslim consumers and Islamic branding. There are two main groups identified - Traditionalists who take a more collective approach to their faith, and Futurists who see Islam as central to their individual identity and are more fiercely proud of their faith. For global brands, the opportunity lies in empathizing with Futurists and communicating genuine Shariah-friendliness rather than just seeing them as another market segment. Halal compliance and corporate reputation will be increasingly important to skeptical Futurist consumers. Brands must inform, educate, reassure consumers and demonstrate Shariah values to build trust with this important demographic.
The halal journal nov dec ’10 marketing to global muslims-identifying & under...Joy Abdullah
The global Muslim consumer market is a lucrative $2 trillion market that is attracting many multinational brands. While the Halal food category alone is estimated at $560 billion, Halal now spans many other categories from fashion to finance. Catering to this growing market requires deep understanding of Muslim values and community needs. There are risks to brands entering the Muslim market - products have faced backlash for not being truly Halal and brands must consider impact on their core image. Thorough risk analysis is needed at the product, corporate, social, political and financial levels to minimize potential issues from Muslim consumer activism online and offline.
The document discusses the rise of consumerism and how it relates to identity formation. It outlines the key stages of social identity theory, including categorization, social identification, and social comparison. A brief history is given of how consumerism expanded with industrialization and how advertising increasingly used psychological tools to drive consumption and shape identities. Consumerism is seen as both enabling individual identities but also potentially supplanting other group affiliations, with mixed consequences.
- Asia is home to nearly 700 million Muslims, comprising about 60% of the global Muslim population. This large Muslim consumer bloc spans multiple countries in Asia.
- However, brands have been slow to directly target this diverse Muslim market. Some past campaigns that misjudged Muslim values were met with consumer backlash.
- As the Muslim population grows more affluent, brands are starting to take the Asian Muslim consumer more seriously and seeking to understand their values and differences between countries and segments. Targeting this diverse market requires nuanced cultural understanding and avoiding broad generalizations.
http://www.americanmuslimconsumer.com
USA is the world’s largest economy made up of hundreds of healthy and robust sub-markets, as large as some national economies. One of those markets is the American Muslim Consumers. Muslims in America are estimated at 6-8,000,000 with an annual spending of over $200Bln. The Muslim Market in the USA is both healthy and rapidly growing.
Muslim consumers average a high level of education and income above average, with a strong appreciation for family living. While the American Muslim consumers share many purchasing behaviors as other Americans, there are some distinct advantages of the American Muslim Market. Like other Americans, Muslim consumers are also sophisticated and discriminating with an above average capacity to purchase.
The American Muslim consumer therefore provides a unique opportunity for companies in the USA.
This document discusses the concept of an ideal alternative trade organization (ATO) called Calligraphy that would trade in indigenous handicrafts and products. It begins by providing context on ATOs and how they aim to connect marginalized artisans and producers with markets in developed countries. It then describes the proposed structure and supply chain of Calligraphy. Key aspects include an "Art Triangle" that would select product designs, indigenous and proactively styled products, fair payment terms for artisans, and unique features like dynamic pricing and product tracking. The document also analyzes Calligraphy compared to similar organizations like Etsy and Ten Thousand Villages.
The document examines the cultural space of large suburban shopping malls in the United States, using Mall of America as the primary example. It discusses how malls are represented in both academic and non-academic sources as entertainment destinations that cater to various consumer needs. The document also covers the production, consumption, and identity aspects of malls, highlighting how they are tied to concepts of community, consumerism, and different demographic groups. Some challenges in the analysis are explaining malls' enduring popularity and confinement of the production discussion to standard mall design.
تاثير الازمة الاقتصادية العالمية على الاقتصاد المصرىguest4464e0
This document summarizes a research paper on the impact of the global financial crisis on the Egyptian economy. It discusses the causes and consequences of the crisis, including its implications for Egypt's financial sector, balance of payments, and state budget. The Egyptian government took actions to address the crisis's effects, such as expanding social programs. The crisis negatively impacted Egypt through slowing economic growth, currency depreciation, reduced foreign investment and tourism, and rising unemployment.
Miles Young - Muslim Futurism and Islamic BrandingThink Ethnic
The document summarizes key findings from research conducted by Ogilvy & Mather on Muslim consumers and Islamic branding. There are two main groups identified - Traditionalists who take a more collective approach to their faith, and Futurists who see Islam as central to their individual identity and are more fiercely proud of their faith. For global brands, the opportunity lies in empathizing with Futurists and communicating genuine Shariah-friendliness rather than just seeing them as another market segment. Halal compliance and corporate reputation will be increasingly important to skeptical Futurist consumers. Brands must inform, educate, reassure consumers and demonstrate Shariah values to build trust with this important demographic.
The halal journal nov dec ’10 marketing to global muslims-identifying & under...Joy Abdullah
The global Muslim consumer market is a lucrative $2 trillion market that is attracting many multinational brands. While the Halal food category alone is estimated at $560 billion, Halal now spans many other categories from fashion to finance. Catering to this growing market requires deep understanding of Muslim values and community needs. There are risks to brands entering the Muslim market - products have faced backlash for not being truly Halal and brands must consider impact on their core image. Thorough risk analysis is needed at the product, corporate, social, political and financial levels to minimize potential issues from Muslim consumer activism online and offline.
The document discusses the rise of consumerism and how it relates to identity formation. It outlines the key stages of social identity theory, including categorization, social identification, and social comparison. A brief history is given of how consumerism expanded with industrialization and how advertising increasingly used psychological tools to drive consumption and shape identities. Consumerism is seen as both enabling individual identities but also potentially supplanting other group affiliations, with mixed consequences.
- Asia is home to nearly 700 million Muslims, comprising about 60% of the global Muslim population. This large Muslim consumer bloc spans multiple countries in Asia.
- However, brands have been slow to directly target this diverse Muslim market. Some past campaigns that misjudged Muslim values were met with consumer backlash.
- As the Muslim population grows more affluent, brands are starting to take the Asian Muslim consumer more seriously and seeking to understand their values and differences between countries and segments. Targeting this diverse market requires nuanced cultural understanding and avoiding broad generalizations.
http://www.americanmuslimconsumer.com
USA is the world’s largest economy made up of hundreds of healthy and robust sub-markets, as large as some national economies. One of those markets is the American Muslim Consumers. Muslims in America are estimated at 6-8,000,000 with an annual spending of over $200Bln. The Muslim Market in the USA is both healthy and rapidly growing.
Muslim consumers average a high level of education and income above average, with a strong appreciation for family living. While the American Muslim consumers share many purchasing behaviors as other Americans, there are some distinct advantages of the American Muslim Market. Like other Americans, Muslim consumers are also sophisticated and discriminating with an above average capacity to purchase.
The American Muslim consumer therefore provides a unique opportunity for companies in the USA.
This document discusses the concept of an ideal alternative trade organization (ATO) called Calligraphy that would trade in indigenous handicrafts and products. It begins by providing context on ATOs and how they aim to connect marginalized artisans and producers with markets in developed countries. It then describes the proposed structure and supply chain of Calligraphy. Key aspects include an "Art Triangle" that would select product designs, indigenous and proactively styled products, fair payment terms for artisans, and unique features like dynamic pricing and product tracking. The document also analyzes Calligraphy compared to similar organizations like Etsy and Ten Thousand Villages.
The document examines the cultural space of large suburban shopping malls in the United States, using Mall of America as the primary example. It discusses how malls are represented in both academic and non-academic sources as entertainment destinations that cater to various consumer needs. The document also covers the production, consumption, and identity aspects of malls, highlighting how they are tied to concepts of community, consumerism, and different demographic groups. Some challenges in the analysis are explaining malls' enduring popularity and confinement of the production discussion to standard mall design.
تاثير الازمة الاقتصادية العالمية على الاقتصاد المصرىguest4464e0
This document summarizes a research paper on the impact of the global financial crisis on the Egyptian economy. It discusses the causes and consequences of the crisis, including its implications for Egypt's financial sector, balance of payments, and state budget. The Egyptian government took actions to address the crisis's effects, such as expanding social programs. The crisis negatively impacted Egypt through slowing economic growth, currency depreciation, reduced foreign investment and tourism, and rising unemployment.
This article is a further expansion of the marketing 3.0 concept in the book by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, and Iwan Setiawan. Here I present a new conceptual model: i-marketing 3.0, which is about highlighting the importance of forging geographies of ‘collective individualism’ and ‘individual collectivism’ – influential offerings embedded in culture, with distinct yet fluid identities and personalities; which are intuitive, sharing, and accessible.
Wilson, J.A.J. (2013), “I-Marketing 3.0”, The Marketeers, September, Indonesia: MarkPlus Inc., pp.80-83.
Islamic Branding- Misnomer or Earnest Opportunity?Joy Abdullah
Is there actually such a thing as an "Islamic Brand"? If yes, is it an opportunity for marketers or is it just another fad? On the other hand is it just a misnomer?
I answer these from a marketer's perspective in the July 2014 issue of Islamic Banker Asia.
Islam and Supply-Side EconomicsSupply-side economics has a long hi.pdfarihanthtoysandgifts
Islam and Supply-Side Economics
Supply-side economics has a long history, dating back to at least the fourteenth century. The
greatest of medieval historians, Abu Zayd Abd-ar-Rahman Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), included
in his book, The Muqaddimah (1377), an Islamic view of supply-side economics. He pointed out
that “when tax assessments . . . upon the subjects are low, the latter have the energy and desire to
do things. Cultural enterprises grow and increase . . . (Therefore) the number of individual
imposts (taxes) and assessments mounts.” If taxes are increased in both size and rates, “the result
is that the interests of subjects in cultural enterprises disappears, because when they compare
expenditures and taxes with their income and gain and see little profit they make, they lose all
hope.” Ibn Khaldun concluded that “at the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields large revenue
from small assessments. At the end of a dynasty, taxation yields small revenue from large
assessments.”
(A) How do this Islamic scholar’s theories apply to the modern world?
Solution
Ans:
In the course of the most recent 50 years there has been reestablished enthusiasm for Islamic
nations in looking at the relationship in the middle of Islam and science in the range of its
history. In the wake of picking up autonomy the majority of the Islamic nations have been
attempting to deal with their religious convictions and the Western ideas of science and training.
The instruction frameworks embraced by the greater part of the Islamic nations have been
founded on supposed common Western training. Subsequently a social dichotomy is seen in their
social orders between a conventional Islamic training from one viewpoint confined to religious
gatherings, and a common Western instruction in standard schools, schools and colleges.
Training is seen as a method for securing logical learning and innovation, so as to advance
monetarily in the cutting edge world. On the other hand, training has unsuccessfully attempted to
mix Islamic thinking with this Western instruction framework.
Islamic Nature view :
The Islamic perspective of nature amid the Golden Age was for humankind \'to study nature with
a specific end goal to find God and to utilize nature for the advantage of humanity\'. Nature
could be utilized to give sustenance to humankind and its abundance was to be similarly
circulated among all people groups. All exercises that made damage humanity and thus
devastated nature were illegal. Devastation of the common equalization was disheartened, for
instance, pointless executing of creatures or evacuation of vegetation may thus prompt starvation
because of absence of nourishment. This perspective was an expansion of the thought that
\"man\" had been set on earth as God\'s illustrative.
Supply-side financial aspects is a macroeconomic hypothesis which contends that monetary
development can be most adequately made by putting resources into capital, and by bringing
down boundaries on the .
The Halal Journal WHF 2012 Special Edition Muslim Youth Culture A New Hip Hop...Think Ethnic
The document discusses trends in Muslim youth culture, arguing that rather than becoming "Westernized", Muslim youth are entering a new phase of cultural development. It notes that over half of Muslims are under 24 years old, representing over 10% of the world's population. The author argues that globalization does not necessarily lead to cultural homogenization, and that Muslim youth are blending Islamic and non-Islamic cultural influences in unique ways, such as by customizing clothing with both Islamic and non-Islamic accessories. The trends point to Muslim youth building their own diverse cultural identities.
1) Muslims represent a major growth opportunity for global businesses as they comprise one of the fastest growing consumer markets worldwide.
2) However, addressing Muslim consumers is complex due to the diversity of the Muslim population across different regions and cultures.
3) While strict interpretations of Islamic law influence consumers' lifestyles and financial decisions, many Muslim consumers also aspire to modern lifestyles and technologies.
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities for Muslim youth in contributing to state-building. It argues that youth alienation from political processes has led some Muslim youth to see active engagement in politics as a way to contribute to their countries and gain recognition. However, Muslim youth are often stereotyped as disruptive or prone to radicalism. The document calls for giving Muslim youth greater roles in development, addressing their economic frustrations, and promoting their identity as positive change agents through civic engagement and building networks across communities. It also discusses the need to counter online extremist propaganda and radicalization of Muslim youth through education and promoting moderate religious views.
Young indian muslim consumers an escalating trend of potentialAlexander Decker
This document discusses a study examining the spending patterns and buying behaviors of young Indian Muslim consumers ages 10-15 and 16-20. Researchers surveyed 200 young consumers in each age group and 100 parents. They found that 75% of 10-15 year olds and 42% of 16-20 year olds received less than $2-4 weekly in pocket money. 40% of money was spent on food/beverages by both groups, while the 16-20 group also spent 54% on education and personal items. 80-90% of parents considered their children's opinions when making household purchases. The study provides insights into attitudes and purchase choices of young Indian Muslims.
This document is a dissertation submitted by Noriyuki Dochi to the University of Bradford in partial fulfillment of an MSc degree in Marketing and Management. The dissertation investigates how Islamic identity affects the perspectives of women wearing hijab in the UK toward fashion advertisements. It includes an introduction outlining the research background, aims, objectives and methodology. A literature review examines research on religion and consumer behavior, religiosity, Muslims, the hijab, and religiosity's influence on advertising responses. The methodology describes conducting semi-structured interviews of 5 female Muslim students aged 23-26 in Bradford. Findings from the interviews are analyzed using theories of identity and self-concept. The conclusion discusses implications for fashion retailers marketing to
- Alcinda Lee is a fashion marketing student from Singapore doing her dissertation on Islamic marketing in Dubai's fashion industry.
- Through her research in Dubai, she found that the marketing culture respects Arabic culture and focuses on segmenting and targeting local customers. There is also an emerging segment of younger, Western-influenced consumers.
- However, Islamic marketing is still a foreign concept in Dubai and more research is needed to help brands understand how to comply with Islamic principles while doing business in Muslim-majority markets.
This study presents a conceptual framework that examines the drivers that lead gay males to consume
luxury goods in order to enhance or build their identity. Thus, the framework relates the self-concept to the
consumption of luxury goods among gale males.
Economic Rationalism and Consumption: Islamic PerspectiveBasharat Hossain
This paper presents a comparative view of Islamic economic rationalism and
consumption framework to its counterpart’s conventional capitalist and socialist
economic system. In conventional economic system, only self-interest and rationality
of the consumer is the main principle to maximize utility whereas moral, religious,
national, historical, cultural and social values are absent here. Consequently, the
consumers enjoy sovereignty with little or no intervention of regulatory authority to
maximize the utility. On the contrary, Islamic economic system designs its rationality
and consumption principle in moderation that is far away from extremism where
freedom and regulation is moderately recognized. Therefore, Islamic rationality
encourages the consumers to maximize his utility by insuring religious, national,
historical, cultural and social values. Besides, conventional economics have no
treatment to immoral activities of consumer while Islamic economics derived from
the Holy Quran and Hadith offers rewards and punishments for moral and immoral
activities in worldly and hereafter life.
What are the determinants of culture In terms of Hofstede model analyses how ...Sohag Jafrul
Wal-Mart faced challenges expanding into international markets due to cultural differences. In Mexico, Wal-Mart was able to adapt practices like selling in small quantities and hiring local managers, allowing it to succeed. However, in South Korea and Germany, consumers preferred higher quality goods and were not attracted to Wal-Mart's discount strategy, resulting in losses. In China, Wal-Mart adapted further by providing fresh food and killing animals on site, aligning with Chinese preferences. While culture can change through business influence over time, companies must respect local cultures to avoid ethnocentric behavior and achieve long term success abroad.
News events such as the 2015 Paris attacks, armed conflicts such as .docxhallettfaustina
News events such as the 2015 Paris attacks, armed conflicts such as the Syrian civil war, and enduring fear of Arabs and Muslims has led to a great deal of discrimination and prejudice for people within the Arab diaspora throughout the world. In the U.S., this prejudice often has roots in the fear of terrorism and little understanding of who Arab and Muslim Americans are, what they believe, and the differences and similarities that may be present across this large group of people. Like all other groups, clients from this population should receive ethical and culturally sensitive treatment and services as part of human and social services responsibilities.
For this week’s Discussion, you explore issues that Arab and Muslim clients may face, whether they are established or recently immigrated, more traditional or assimilated. You consider these issues through the lens of a case study, one that deals with group work with a heterogeneous group of factory workers, some of whom are recent immigrants from Syria.
To Prepare:
Review Chapter 15 in your course text
Cultural Diversity
, considering cultural issues that human and social services workers should consider when working with Arab and/or Muslim American clients.
Review in the Weekly Resources the Case Study at the Port of New Harbor Plant, located in the Interactive Learning Community.
By Day 4
Post
an explanation of the most important areas that Robert should focus on when facilitating this diverse group and why. Use this week’s Learning Resources and other peer-reviewed literature to support your post.
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North American: brands, advertising agencies, marketing professors, brand gurus, and celebrities have been most successful in dominating Global rankings. As a by-product of this, literature frequently refracts branding thought and practise through a English(US) and Christian lens, even if unintended. In this article, I highlight an optical phenomenon present and a rainbow of religious pluralism.
My argument is that future competitive advantage will result from authentic brands that resonate with more of the attributes of different religions explicitly from guiding first principles.
Furthermore, this has to be about appraising the implications of introducing different religions into branding as theory, as opposed to an upstream consumer targeting and advertising practise.
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
Rethinking islamist politics, culture, the state and islamism by salwa ismailtopbottom1
This document provides an overview and summary of the book "Rethinking Islamist Politics" by Salwa Ismail. Some key points:
- The book aims to provide an account of Islamist activism by examining the socio-political contexts and "infrastructures of action" rather than invoking Islam as a unitary entity.
- It focuses on both macro-level factors like state structures, but also micro-level processes like how Islamist activists mobilize at the neighborhood level and engage with communities.
- The book examines the heterogeneity of Islamist movements and how their discourses generate meanings in relation to historical contexts rather than referring to sacred texts alone.
- The author argues against generalizations about the
This document outlines a research paper on Islamic Shariah Compliant Marketing (ISCM). It introduces the topic and outlines the paper's objectives, which are to conceptually demonstrate ISCM and differentiate it from conventional marketing. The methodology discusses analyzing literature on Islamic economics and Shariah. There is a need for ISCM because Islam emphasizes earning lawful income. The paper then critically examines conventional marketing and discusses adapting the marketing mix to Islamic principles. It concludes by noting challenges for ISCM and implications for better understanding Muslim consumer needs and rights.
Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising,Volume.docxpriestmanmable
Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising,
Volume 32, Number 1 (Spring 2010).
Morris Kalliny (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the
Missouri University of Science and Technology. (email:
[email protected])
Are They Really That Different From Us: A Comparison of
Arab and American Newspaper Advertising
Morris Kalliny
This study examines cultural values reflected in U.S. and the Arab world newspaper
advertisement. A total of 1245 newspaper advertisements from Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the United States were analyzed. The findings
indicate that there are some similarities between the Arab World and the U.S. that may allow
for subtle changes in cultural values and advertising strategies. The findings also indicate
that there are some cultural values that have more of a religious significance than others.
Introduction
Since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001,
the world has been greatly divided between the West
and the Middle East. Differences in cultural and reli-
gious values have been fiercely debated and in most
cases the differences have been magnified while the
similarities have been ignored. Although globaliza-
tion indicates that we may now have come closer than
ever to McLuhan’s (1964) vision of a global village,
the magnification of these differences and the recent
clashes may suggest otherwise.
Leung et al. (2005) argue that national culture has
become an increasingly important factor for compa-
nies engaged in business activities across country bor-
ders. Firms now must operate in an era of increasing
globalization, so understanding of national culture is
a crucial factor for success. Keegan (1989) argues that
the understanding of cultural differences is often con-
sidered a prerequisite for successful international ad-
vertising because consumers grow up in a particular
culture and become aligned with that culture’s value
system, beliefs and perception processes. Several stud-
ies have shown that consumers are more inclined to
respond to advertisements that are congruent with
their culture (Boddewyn, Soehl, and Picard 1986;
Buzzell 1986; Harris 1984).
Scholars (Durgee, O’Connor, and Veryzer 1996) ar-
gue that one of the most powerful ways to under-
stand consumers is through the study of their values
and value systems. The value system consists of sets
of beliefs, attitudes and activities to which a culture or
subculture subscribes. These cultural values are rein-
forced by rewards and punishments for those who
follow or deviate from these guidelines (Rokeach 1973).
At the personal level, values determine virtually all
types of behaviors, from simple purchasing to reli-
gious ideologies (Pollay 1983). In the marketing and
management literature, cultural values are recognized
as having influence on consumer motivations and
product choices (Tse, Wang, and Tan 1988). Several
researchers believe that values are predictors or ante-
cedents of behavior (Con ...
In light of the progression of Islamic finance in non-Muslim countries and the design of innovative financial products, the next frontier for Islamic finance is to attract customers and investors from beliefs other than Islam. This paper examines and discusses the case of a specific Islamic contract, Waqf and highlights its possible use as a (Socially Responsible Investment) SRI offering which is not only attractive to the non-Muslim investor, but also in-line with the actual spirit of Islamic teachings. The methodology is an examination of the Waqf contract through different sources of Islamic law as well as an evaluation of mainstream secondary literature on the link of corporate social responsibility and investor prospection in Non-Muslim countries.
The ultimate result is a proposed viable Waqf product which is in-line with the spirit of Islamic teachings and can be an attractive proposition to the socially conscious investor.
Abnormalities of hormones and inflammatory cytokines in women affected with p...Alexander Decker
Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) have elevated levels of hormones like luteinizing hormone and testosterone, as well as higher levels of insulin and insulin resistance compared to healthy women. They also have increased levels of inflammatory markers like C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and leptin. This study found these abnormalities in the hormones and inflammatory cytokines of women with PCOS ages 23-40, indicating that hormone imbalances associated with insulin resistance and elevated inflammatory markers may worsen infertility in women with PCOS.
This article is a further expansion of the marketing 3.0 concept in the book by Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya, and Iwan Setiawan. Here I present a new conceptual model: i-marketing 3.0, which is about highlighting the importance of forging geographies of ‘collective individualism’ and ‘individual collectivism’ – influential offerings embedded in culture, with distinct yet fluid identities and personalities; which are intuitive, sharing, and accessible.
Wilson, J.A.J. (2013), “I-Marketing 3.0”, The Marketeers, September, Indonesia: MarkPlus Inc., pp.80-83.
Islamic Branding- Misnomer or Earnest Opportunity?Joy Abdullah
Is there actually such a thing as an "Islamic Brand"? If yes, is it an opportunity for marketers or is it just another fad? On the other hand is it just a misnomer?
I answer these from a marketer's perspective in the July 2014 issue of Islamic Banker Asia.
Islam and Supply-Side EconomicsSupply-side economics has a long hi.pdfarihanthtoysandgifts
Islam and Supply-Side Economics
Supply-side economics has a long history, dating back to at least the fourteenth century. The
greatest of medieval historians, Abu Zayd Abd-ar-Rahman Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), included
in his book, The Muqaddimah (1377), an Islamic view of supply-side economics. He pointed out
that “when tax assessments . . . upon the subjects are low, the latter have the energy and desire to
do things. Cultural enterprises grow and increase . . . (Therefore) the number of individual
imposts (taxes) and assessments mounts.” If taxes are increased in both size and rates, “the result
is that the interests of subjects in cultural enterprises disappears, because when they compare
expenditures and taxes with their income and gain and see little profit they make, they lose all
hope.” Ibn Khaldun concluded that “at the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields large revenue
from small assessments. At the end of a dynasty, taxation yields small revenue from large
assessments.”
(A) How do this Islamic scholar’s theories apply to the modern world?
Solution
Ans:
In the course of the most recent 50 years there has been reestablished enthusiasm for Islamic
nations in looking at the relationship in the middle of Islam and science in the range of its
history. In the wake of picking up autonomy the majority of the Islamic nations have been
attempting to deal with their religious convictions and the Western ideas of science and training.
The instruction frameworks embraced by the greater part of the Islamic nations have been
founded on supposed common Western training. Subsequently a social dichotomy is seen in their
social orders between a conventional Islamic training from one viewpoint confined to religious
gatherings, and a common Western instruction in standard schools, schools and colleges.
Training is seen as a method for securing logical learning and innovation, so as to advance
monetarily in the cutting edge world. On the other hand, training has unsuccessfully attempted to
mix Islamic thinking with this Western instruction framework.
Islamic Nature view :
The Islamic perspective of nature amid the Golden Age was for humankind \'to study nature with
a specific end goal to find God and to utilize nature for the advantage of humanity\'. Nature
could be utilized to give sustenance to humankind and its abundance was to be similarly
circulated among all people groups. All exercises that made damage humanity and thus
devastated nature were illegal. Devastation of the common equalization was disheartened, for
instance, pointless executing of creatures or evacuation of vegetation may thus prompt starvation
because of absence of nourishment. This perspective was an expansion of the thought that
\"man\" had been set on earth as God\'s illustrative.
Supply-side financial aspects is a macroeconomic hypothesis which contends that monetary
development can be most adequately made by putting resources into capital, and by bringing
down boundaries on the .
The Halal Journal WHF 2012 Special Edition Muslim Youth Culture A New Hip Hop...Think Ethnic
The document discusses trends in Muslim youth culture, arguing that rather than becoming "Westernized", Muslim youth are entering a new phase of cultural development. It notes that over half of Muslims are under 24 years old, representing over 10% of the world's population. The author argues that globalization does not necessarily lead to cultural homogenization, and that Muslim youth are blending Islamic and non-Islamic cultural influences in unique ways, such as by customizing clothing with both Islamic and non-Islamic accessories. The trends point to Muslim youth building their own diverse cultural identities.
1) Muslims represent a major growth opportunity for global businesses as they comprise one of the fastest growing consumer markets worldwide.
2) However, addressing Muslim consumers is complex due to the diversity of the Muslim population across different regions and cultures.
3) While strict interpretations of Islamic law influence consumers' lifestyles and financial decisions, many Muslim consumers also aspire to modern lifestyles and technologies.
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities for Muslim youth in contributing to state-building. It argues that youth alienation from political processes has led some Muslim youth to see active engagement in politics as a way to contribute to their countries and gain recognition. However, Muslim youth are often stereotyped as disruptive or prone to radicalism. The document calls for giving Muslim youth greater roles in development, addressing their economic frustrations, and promoting their identity as positive change agents through civic engagement and building networks across communities. It also discusses the need to counter online extremist propaganda and radicalization of Muslim youth through education and promoting moderate religious views.
Young indian muslim consumers an escalating trend of potentialAlexander Decker
This document discusses a study examining the spending patterns and buying behaviors of young Indian Muslim consumers ages 10-15 and 16-20. Researchers surveyed 200 young consumers in each age group and 100 parents. They found that 75% of 10-15 year olds and 42% of 16-20 year olds received less than $2-4 weekly in pocket money. 40% of money was spent on food/beverages by both groups, while the 16-20 group also spent 54% on education and personal items. 80-90% of parents considered their children's opinions when making household purchases. The study provides insights into attitudes and purchase choices of young Indian Muslims.
This document is a dissertation submitted by Noriyuki Dochi to the University of Bradford in partial fulfillment of an MSc degree in Marketing and Management. The dissertation investigates how Islamic identity affects the perspectives of women wearing hijab in the UK toward fashion advertisements. It includes an introduction outlining the research background, aims, objectives and methodology. A literature review examines research on religion and consumer behavior, religiosity, Muslims, the hijab, and religiosity's influence on advertising responses. The methodology describes conducting semi-structured interviews of 5 female Muslim students aged 23-26 in Bradford. Findings from the interviews are analyzed using theories of identity and self-concept. The conclusion discusses implications for fashion retailers marketing to
- Alcinda Lee is a fashion marketing student from Singapore doing her dissertation on Islamic marketing in Dubai's fashion industry.
- Through her research in Dubai, she found that the marketing culture respects Arabic culture and focuses on segmenting and targeting local customers. There is also an emerging segment of younger, Western-influenced consumers.
- However, Islamic marketing is still a foreign concept in Dubai and more research is needed to help brands understand how to comply with Islamic principles while doing business in Muslim-majority markets.
This study presents a conceptual framework that examines the drivers that lead gay males to consume
luxury goods in order to enhance or build their identity. Thus, the framework relates the self-concept to the
consumption of luxury goods among gale males.
Economic Rationalism and Consumption: Islamic PerspectiveBasharat Hossain
This paper presents a comparative view of Islamic economic rationalism and
consumption framework to its counterpart’s conventional capitalist and socialist
economic system. In conventional economic system, only self-interest and rationality
of the consumer is the main principle to maximize utility whereas moral, religious,
national, historical, cultural and social values are absent here. Consequently, the
consumers enjoy sovereignty with little or no intervention of regulatory authority to
maximize the utility. On the contrary, Islamic economic system designs its rationality
and consumption principle in moderation that is far away from extremism where
freedom and regulation is moderately recognized. Therefore, Islamic rationality
encourages the consumers to maximize his utility by insuring religious, national,
historical, cultural and social values. Besides, conventional economics have no
treatment to immoral activities of consumer while Islamic economics derived from
the Holy Quran and Hadith offers rewards and punishments for moral and immoral
activities in worldly and hereafter life.
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News events such as the 2015 Paris attacks, armed conflicts such as the Syrian civil war, and enduring fear of Arabs and Muslims has led to a great deal of discrimination and prejudice for people within the Arab diaspora throughout the world. In the U.S., this prejudice often has roots in the fear of terrorism and little understanding of who Arab and Muslim Americans are, what they believe, and the differences and similarities that may be present across this large group of people. Like all other groups, clients from this population should receive ethical and culturally sensitive treatment and services as part of human and social services responsibilities.
For this week’s Discussion, you explore issues that Arab and Muslim clients may face, whether they are established or recently immigrated, more traditional or assimilated. You consider these issues through the lens of a case study, one that deals with group work with a heterogeneous group of factory workers, some of whom are recent immigrants from Syria.
To Prepare:
Review Chapter 15 in your course text
Cultural Diversity
, considering cultural issues that human and social services workers should consider when working with Arab and/or Muslim American clients.
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North American: brands, advertising agencies, marketing professors, brand gurus, and celebrities have been most successful in dominating Global rankings. As a by-product of this, literature frequently refracts branding thought and practise through a English(US) and Christian lens, even if unintended. In this article, I highlight an optical phenomenon present and a rainbow of religious pluralism.
My argument is that future competitive advantage will result from authentic brands that resonate with more of the attributes of different religions explicitly from guiding first principles.
Furthermore, this has to be about appraising the implications of introducing different religions into branding as theory, as opposed to an upstream consumer targeting and advertising practise.
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- It focuses on both macro-level factors like state structures, but also micro-level processes like how Islamist activists mobilize at the neighborhood level and engage with communities.
- The book examines the heterogeneity of Islamist movements and how their discourses generate meanings in relation to historical contexts rather than referring to sacred texts alone.
- The author argues against generalizations about the
This document outlines a research paper on Islamic Shariah Compliant Marketing (ISCM). It introduces the topic and outlines the paper's objectives, which are to conceptually demonstrate ISCM and differentiate it from conventional marketing. The methodology discusses analyzing literature on Islamic economics and Shariah. There is a need for ISCM because Islam emphasizes earning lawful income. The paper then critically examines conventional marketing and discusses adapting the marketing mix to Islamic principles. It concludes by noting challenges for ISCM and implications for better understanding Muslim consumer needs and rights.
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Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising,
Volume 32, Number 1 (Spring 2010).
Morris Kalliny (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the
Missouri University of Science and Technology. (email:
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Are They Really That Different From Us: A Comparison of
Arab and American Newspaper Advertising
Morris Kalliny
This study examines cultural values reflected in U.S. and the Arab world newspaper
advertisement. A total of 1245 newspaper advertisements from Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the United States were analyzed. The findings
indicate that there are some similarities between the Arab World and the U.S. that may allow
for subtle changes in cultural values and advertising strategies. The findings also indicate
that there are some cultural values that have more of a religious significance than others.
Introduction
Since the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001,
the world has been greatly divided between the West
and the Middle East. Differences in cultural and reli-
gious values have been fiercely debated and in most
cases the differences have been magnified while the
similarities have been ignored. Although globaliza-
tion indicates that we may now have come closer than
ever to McLuhan’s (1964) vision of a global village,
the magnification of these differences and the recent
clashes may suggest otherwise.
Leung et al. (2005) argue that national culture has
become an increasingly important factor for compa-
nies engaged in business activities across country bor-
ders. Firms now must operate in an era of increasing
globalization, so understanding of national culture is
a crucial factor for success. Keegan (1989) argues that
the understanding of cultural differences is often con-
sidered a prerequisite for successful international ad-
vertising because consumers grow up in a particular
culture and become aligned with that culture’s value
system, beliefs and perception processes. Several stud-
ies have shown that consumers are more inclined to
respond to advertisements that are congruent with
their culture (Boddewyn, Soehl, and Picard 1986;
Buzzell 1986; Harris 1984).
Scholars (Durgee, O’Connor, and Veryzer 1996) ar-
gue that one of the most powerful ways to under-
stand consumers is through the study of their values
and value systems. The value system consists of sets
of beliefs, attitudes and activities to which a culture or
subculture subscribes. These cultural values are rein-
forced by rewards and punishments for those who
follow or deviate from these guidelines (Rokeach 1973).
At the personal level, values determine virtually all
types of behaviors, from simple purchasing to reli-
gious ideologies (Pollay 1983). In the marketing and
management literature, cultural values are recognized
as having influence on consumer motivations and
product choices (Tse, Wang, and Tan 1988). Several
researchers believe that values are predictors or ante-
cedents of behavior (Con ...
In light of the progression of Islamic finance in non-Muslim countries and the design of innovative financial products, the next frontier for Islamic finance is to attract customers and investors from beliefs other than Islam. This paper examines and discusses the case of a specific Islamic contract, Waqf and highlights its possible use as a (Socially Responsible Investment) SRI offering which is not only attractive to the non-Muslim investor, but also in-line with the actual spirit of Islamic teachings. The methodology is an examination of the Waqf contract through different sources of Islamic law as well as an evaluation of mainstream secondary literature on the link of corporate social responsibility and investor prospection in Non-Muslim countries.
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Researching past and approaching perspectives of islamic marketing
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Researching Past and Approaching Perspectives of Islamic
Marketing
Mirza Muhammad Umar
Government College University Lahore
Umarmirza9@gmail.com
Abstract
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to explore the reasons underlying the recent interest on Islamic marketing,
discusses past research on the topic and offers a future research perspective.
Design/methodology/approach – The paper is predicated on a critical review of the subsisting literature.It
offers ethno consumerism as a way to develop a situated understanding of Muslim consumers and businesses.
Findings – Two distinct phases, omission and revelation, characterize the subsisting literature. Omission derives
from the stereotyping of Muslims as traditional and uncivilized people and Islam as Incompatible with capitalist
consumer ideology. Revelation relates to the identification of Muslims asan untapped and viable consumer
segment and the incrementing overtness of Muslim entrepreneurs.
Research constraints/implicative insinuations – A deeper understanding of Muslim consumers and marketers
requires doing away with essentialist approaches that reify difference. Instead of fixating on differences future
research needs to fixate on how such differences play out in the daily lives of consumers and examine the
religious, political, cultural and economic resources, forces and tensions that consumers experience and negotiate
as they (re)construct and communicate theiridentities as Muslims.
Practical implicative insinuations – Managers should not surmise Muslims to be a homogeneous andpreexisting
segment. They should fixate on the circadian practices for which the product may be pertinentand engender
solutions that will avail Muslims live opportune Islamic lives.
Originality/value – The paper draws attention to the potential quandaries in carrying out research onIslamic
marketing and highlights the hazards of an essentialist perspective.
Introduction
The interest in understanding the relationship between Islam and consumption and marketing practices has been
incrementing in recent years. One can trace such interest in the establishment of specialist journals, the growing
number of research articles published, the organization of academic conferences and executive workshops and
the engenderment of high profile consultancy reports. Accompanying this rather sudden and vigorous interest is
ineluctably the question of why? Why is there an interest in Islam and marketing and why now? A more
proximate visually examine the literature suggests that underlying this attention is the identification of Muslims
as an untapped and viable market segment. Analogous to the cases of other non-mainstream consumer groups
such as blacks and Hispanics in theUSA, for example, the incrementing overtness of Muslims as consumers is
intimately linkedwith their purchasing puissance. This power is articulated especially through the emergenceof a
Muslim middle class, which is, albeit geographically dispersed, amalgamated in itsinterest in consumption and
ability to afford branded products (Nasr, 2009). Along withthe Muslim middle class, there is incrementing
overtness of Muslim entrepreneurs, an incipient breed of businesspeople, located in both Muslim-majority and
minority societies, who are keenly pursuing Islamic principles as well as capitalist aspirations (Adas,
2006;Osella and Osella, 2009). Overall, it appears that the transmuting demographics and purchasing power of
Muslim consumers and the prosperity of Muslim entrepreneurs have commenced to render Islamic marketing a
scholarly and managerially captivating field. However, there is additionally certain unease that the term “Islamic
marketing” engenders. The “Islamic” accent carries with it the potential of reifying difference rather than
interaction. First, it implicatively insinuates that when addressing Muslim consumers the practice of marketing
needs to take on a particular Islamic character. Such marketing is surmised to be different from marketing in
general. Second, it implicatively insinuates that Islamic marketing targets Muslim consumers, consumers who
are distinctively different from consumers in general and that it utilizes concrete resources, skills and implements
that are germane and appealing to this particular segment. Finally, it withal surmises that there is a preexisting
and uniform Muslim consumer segment, which can be targeted, reached and, to a certain extent, soothsaid by
marketers. Such postulations have the peril of engendering an essentialist perspective that engenders a rather
static and stereotypical understanding of Muslim consumers and businesses and cognate consumption and
marketing practices. What I argue instead is a fixate on the interaction and co-constitutive relationship between
Islam and marketing (for a more detailed discussion of the conceptions presented here, optically discern Sandıkcı
and Ger (2011)). Research in this area needs to transcend probing for differences to understanding how Islam
and marketing mutually apprise each other and how Muslim consumers and entrepreneurs negotiate Islamic
values and consumerist and capitalist aspirations in their circadian lives and practices. What follows next is a
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critical overview of the subsisting scholarship on Islam and marketing. I then outline a perspective for future
research that is more sensitive to the intricacies and contextual ties of Muslims and their consumption and
marketing practices. I conclude by discussingsundry managerial and policy implicative insinuations of this
perspective. Scholarship on Islam, consumption and marketing Despite the fact that there have been Muslims for
centuries and that they have engaged in consumption and trade, interest in the relationship between Islam and
marketing has emerged only recently. A more proximate visually examine the marketing and extant gregarious
science literatures suggests that the scholarship on Islam and marketing can be discussed in terms of two distinct
phases: omission and revelation.
Omission
The phase of omission refers to the dearth of interest in conceptualizing and studying Muslims as consumers. In
the consumer comportment and marketing literatures, religion in general is an understudied area. Within this
general scarcity, attention on Islam, consumption and the marketing relationship is even scarcer. The omission
was partially cognate to the marginalization of Muslims as low-income and uneducated people who did not
constitute a paramount market for branded products. In this reverence Muslims were kindred to the world’s poor,
or what Prahalad (2004) labeled the “bottom-of-the-pyramid”. As they were not worthy of attention
economically, they remained unknown scholarly. However, omission was additionally due to the stereotyping of
Muslims as traditional, uncivilized and even militant people. As Said (1978) lucidly demonstrated in his book,
Orientalism, the prevailing Western view of Islam and Muslims as the inferior other of the West has been a
historical construct, a trope that was predicated on erroneous and romanticized images of the Middle East and
Asia. Said argued that Western inditementsof the Orient depict it as an irrational, impotent, feminised “other” in
contrast to the rational, vigorous, masculine West. Underlying this contrast was, according to Said, the
desideratum to engender “difference” between West and East that can be attributed to immutable “essences” in
the Oriental make-up (Said, 1978, pp. 65-7). In the business context, such Orientalist representations worked to
engender and reinforce a view of Islam as incompatible with capitalist consumer ideology and gave way to
categorizing Muslims as outside the values and practices of Western consumer culture. This incompatibility view
had different justifications. From the perspective of “Islamic economics”, a body of literature grounded in
medieval Islamic thought (Kuran, 2004), the incompatibility has been indispensable, deliberate and authentic.
This scholarship has advocated the merits of Islamic economic institutions and values and argued that Islamic
principles provide obligatory guidance for today’s economic practices (Siddiqi, 1992; Kahn, 1995). In regard to
consumption, there has been the propensity to treat consumer culture as crass, decadent and corrupting
traditional values. Depicting consumer culture as wasteful, inimical and immoral, fostering individualism and
hedonism, the proponents of Islamic economics injuctivelyauthorized Muslims to live modest lives and abstain
from conspicuous and exorbitant consumption. Against the evils of a consumer culture associated with Western
values, Islam has been offered as an antidote (Kuran, 2004).While Islamic economics deliberately sought to set
apart Islamic consumption
values and practices from the Western consumer culture by denigrating the latter as wasteful, exorbitant and the
root cause of many societal quandaries, several prominent sociological analyses carried out in the 1990s
propagated a similarly incompatible view of Islam and capitalism but due to a different set of reasons (Turner,
1994; Barber,1995). Common in these studies was the fixate on the elevate of Islamic fundamentalism and its
ideological repercussions. From this perspective, the problematic relationship between Islam and capitalist
consumption, or Jihad vs McWorld in Barber’s (1995)famous phrase, has been cognate to the elevate of Islamic
fundamentalism as a reactionaryreplication to the conditions of postmodernity. For instance in his book
Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism, Turner (1994,p. 90) argued that “consumerism offers or promises a
range of possible lifestyles which compete with and in many cases, contradict the uniform lifestyle
authoritatively mandated by Islamic fundamentalism”. According to Turner the cultural, aesthetic and stylistic
pluralism fostered by postmodernism and the spread of global system of consumption contradicted the
fundamentalist commitment to a unified world organized around incontrovertibly true values and credences.
While “the consumer market threatens to breakout into an incipient stage of fragmented post modernity in tardy
capitalism,” fundamentalism“acts as a brake on the historical development of world capitalism” (Turner, 1994, p.
80).Reminiscent of Huntington’s (1997) “clash of civilizations” thesis, these works reproduced a view of Islam
as in a clash with capitalist consumerism. Accordingly for a long time Muslim consumers and businesses
remained invisible. While the incompatibility view justified the lack of academic and managerial interest in
Islam and marketing, the apathy further reinforced the incompatibility view. This cycle came to a halt in the last
decade when marketers discovered the Muslim
Discovery
There have been several gregarious, political, cultural and economic developments underlying the recent interest
on Muslim consumers and businesses. Overall, in the past decades an incremented centrality of Islam has
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become visible across Muslim geographies. In line with this, several studies on Islamic forms of kineticism
appeared (Esposito, 1998; Wiktorowicz, 2004;Bayat, 2005). These studies discussed political ramifications of
these incipient Islamic forms of kineticism as well as the effects of the Islamization of everyday life. The events
of 9/11 ineluctably had a consequential impact in this emerging interest. Initially, the assailments were read
mainly as a reaffirmation of the insurmountable differences between Islam and the Western civilization. The
assailment on the World Trade Center was visually perceived as a symbolic attack against global capitalism.
However, the assailments additionally expedited the interest in understanding Muslims and their convivial,
political and cultural life worlds. The emergence of incipient Islamist convivial forms of kineticism
(Wiktorowicz, 2004; Bayat, 2005) has been a key development shaping the political landscape in the last
decades. Earlier Islamist forms of kineticism were rather homogeneous and static collectivities motivated by
resistance to Western-style modernization and secular modernity (Esposito, 1998). Incipient Islamist forms of
kineticism, on the other hand (Wiktorowicz, 2004; Bayat, 2005), are not merely reactionary collectivities. Rather
than being militant groups seeking a vicissitude of regime.To Sharia-predicated polity, incipient Islamist
convivial forms of kineticism are optically discerned as strategic activiststructures organized around loosely
defined networks and groups that promote particular values through the opportune observance of Islam. As such,
they parallel the logic of incipient gregarious forms of kineticism and seek to engender “networks of shared
meaning” (Melucci,1996) through the mobilization of sundry resources such as political parties,
religiousorganizations, NGOs, schools and gregarious networks (Wiktorowicz, 2004; Bayat, 2005).These forms
of kineticism, such as the Turkish-predicated Gulen community, provide consequential strategic resources –
financial, inculcative, cultural and convivial – to their adherents(Agai, 2007).Studies additionally designate that
market and consumption play paramount roles in the magnificationand spread of these forms of kineticism
(Yavuz, 2004; Boubekeur, 2005; Sandıkcı and Ger, 2010).In the case of Turkey, for example, Yavuz’s (2004)
study showed how Islamic groups have benefited from the incipient “opportunity spaces” engendered by
economic liberalization. These market-oriented venues to spread conceptions and practices, such as the media,
financialinstitutions and businesses, have been instrumental in both propagating the Islamic lifestyles and
engendering financial resources for the Islamic forms of kineticism. From a homogeneous perspective, fixating
on the vicissitude of the construals and practices of tesettu¨ r, modest dressing, in Turkey, Sandıkcı and Ger’s
(2010) study documented how consumption and marketing of fashionable tesettu¨ r have contributed to the
incrementing overtness and magnification of an incipient Islamic collectivity. Overall, research on incipient
Islamist forms of kineticism betoken thatin these communities, the feelings of belonging transpire less through
formal membership in a hierarchical structure but more through engaging in shared patterns of consumption. A
cognate and equipollently paramount development has been the emergence of Muslim entrepreneurs (Demir et
al., 2004; Adas, 2006;OsellaandOsella, 2009). The term has been utilized in reference to an incipient class of
business people, located both in Muslim-majority and minority societies who prosperously blend Islamic ethical
principles and values with capitalist business practices. In the case of Muslim-majority countries, the emergence
of this business class has been linked to the neoliberal restructuring of economies and the transmuting dynamics
of religion-market interaction (Demir et al., 2004). In the caseResearching of Muslim-minority countries, it has
arisen from the transmuting nature of the Muslimdiaspora and their incrementing confidence and political,
economic and cultural power (Saint-Blancat, 2002). In both cases, these incipient Muslim entrepreneurs appear
to be well connected to the networks of kindred-minded business people and benefit from their connections
within the incipient Islamist collectivities and business organizations. Somephilomaths liken Muslim
entrepreneurs to Weberian Calvinists (Adas, 2006).Homogeneous to the Calvinist work ethic, Muslim
entrepreneurs “sanctify strenuous exertion, economic prosperity and pursuit of wealth as paramount religious
obligations” and believe that “a good Muslim should be an entrepreneurial Muslim” (Adas, 2006, p. 129).In
pursuing their entrepreneurial goals they seek to cumulate religious and economic activities through Islamic
ethical values and norms. As Osella and Osella (2009) observe these entrepreneurs “inscribe their categorical
business fascinates and practicesinto rhetorics of the ‘common good’” (p. 203) and visually perceive coalescing
material prosperity with moral connectedness as the “exemplary contemporary way of being a modern, moral,
Muslim” (p. 204). From Malaysia to Turkey, India, Syria, the UK and Australia, these entrepreneurs design,
manufacture and market products that are crucial to the development of modern Muslim identities as consumer
subjects. Some examples that have received media attention include Turkish Tekbir, an Islamic apparel company;
Syrian Newboy Design Studio, engenderer of Fulla dolls; Australian Ahida, marketer of modest swimsuit
burqini,a term derived from merging burqa and bikini; and the UK-predicated Emel, a Muslim lifestyle magazine.
In each case, an aspiration to achieve business prosperity and avail Muslims live felicitously Islamic lives
underlines the entrepreneurial story: Tekbir’sfashionable apparel aim to “make covering beautiful” and inspire
women to adopt the veil (Sandıkcı and Ger, 2007; Gokariksel and Secor, 2010); Fulla dolls act as role models for
Muslim girls, offering an alternative to the promiscuous and hedonistic Barbie(Yaqin, 2007); the burqini acts as
a “modernizing invention that brings Muslim women’s fashion and leisure pursuits (proximately) up to speed
with those of their non-Muslim female counterparts” (Fitzpatrick, 2009, p. 4); and Emel provides lifestyle tips
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apprised by Islamic principles and ethical consumerism to its readers (Lewis, 2010).Finally, there has been a
growing apperception of a Muslim middle class, keen on coalescing Islamic values and a consumerist ethos
(Wong, 2007; Nasr, 2009). As in the case of Muslim entrepreneurs, the emergence of a Muslim middle class is
proximately linked to the broader socio-economic developments. In many Muslim countries, neoliberal
economic restructuring programs have been influential in engendering not only incipient business domains but
withal opening up countries to peregrine brands, shopping malls and sundry contemporary marketing practices.
In countries like Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia andIndonesia to denominate a few, accumulation of wealth
concomitant with the incrementing influence of Islamic forms of kineticism had resulted in the engenderment of
an incipient middle class “conservative in values but avant-garde in consumption practices” (Sandıkcı and
Ger,2002, p. 467; withal Wong, 2007; Nasr, 2009). Recently, looking over the rialtos in Muslim-majority and
minority contexts as well as the digital space, one can observe a wide variety of products which are situated as
Islamic and halal and targeted at Muslim consumers. These offerings range fromapparel to holiday resorts, food,
gated communities, hajj packages, decorative objects,CDs and MP3 recordings of sermons, pop music, toys,
lifestyle magazines and TV and radio stations. Nasr (2009, p. 14) frames the consumption ordinant dictations of
a global Islamic middle class as an economic counterbalance to China’s consumer power and asserts that “this
upwardly mobile class consumes Islam as much as practicing it, authorizing the same sorts of life-enhancing
goods and accommodations as middle classes everywhere”. Overall, by harmonizing religion and consumption
in everyday practices, the incipient Muslim middle class contributes to the composition of an incipient Muslim
identity that draws from multiple resources. The corporate world soon attended to these developments. Since the
tardy 2000s, consultancy reports highlighting the consequentiality of addressing the Muslim marketcommenced
to appear (Kearney, 2007; JWT, 2009; Ogilvy and Mather, 2010). Prevalent in these reports is the accentuation
on the size of the Muslim market and its purchasing potency. Although it is acknowledged that much of the
approximately 1.6 billion Muslimpopulation is quite poor, the number of consumers with sufficient purchasing
power is deemed as consequential enough. Overall, the goal of these reports has been to inculcate and
authoritatively mandate Western multinationals in Islam and Muslim lifestyles. With the incrementing corporate
attention on Muslims as consumers, academic research in the area withal commenced to intensify. Although
there has been some research onconsumption practices of Muslims (Yavas and Tuncalp, 1984; Sandıkcı and Ger,
2002,2010; Esso and Dibb, 2004; Mokhlis, 2006) and the implicative insinuations of Islamic ethics on marketing
practices (Rice, 1999; Saeed et al., 2001; Wilson, 2006; Hasan et al., 2008),scholarly literature on Islam and
marketing has been largely missing. In recent years, studies addressing different domains of marketing in the
context of the Muslimmarkets, such as branding (Alserhan, 2010; Wilson and Liu, 2010), market orientation
(Zakariaand Abdul-Talib, 2010), incipient product development (Rehman and Shabbir, 2010) and sales
promotions (Abdullah and Ahmad, 2010; Yusuf, 2010) have commenced to appear. In general terms, the
revelation of Muslims as consumers resembles the revelation in the USA of ethnic communities such as blacks,
Hispanics and Asians as viable market segments. In all these groups there has been a shift in meaning from
“disadvantaged”or “marginalized” consumers to a lifestyle community embedded in the language ofconsumption.
Studies investigating the emergence of Hispanics, blacks and other ethnic collectivities as consumer segments
report that these segments were not preexisting entities that marketers simply needed to appeal to but
constructions (Davila, 2001).In other words, there was no distinct Hispanic consumer to which marketers could
sell their products. Rather, it was through marketing practices such as segmentation and targeted product
development and advertising that Hispanics came to be Hispanic consumer groups A more proximate visually
examine the composition of the ethnic markets suggests that homogeneous processes are in operation in the
development of the Muslim market. For example, one can observe the emergence of consulting, research and
communications companies or units within subsisting firms specialized in marketing to Muslims. Segmentation
surveys aimed at profiling Muslim consumers are now being conducted. There is targeted advertising appearing
in specialized media. Additionally, there are lifestyle media, both in traditional and digital forms, aiming to build
a platform through which companies can verbalize with Muslim consumers and Muslim consumers and
businesses can verbalize with each other.Studies on ethnic marketing withal show that marketers represent these
groups in anassimilationist manner and aim to engender the image of a unified market. For example, when
marketers refer to the “Hispanic market” they incline to gloss over many different nationalities that are included
under this label (Davila, 2001). Clearly, there is no single and uniform Hispanic or ebony consumer collectivity
and taste structure. At the very least, gregarious class, gender and age dissolve these collectivities into multiple
overlapping and conflicting consumption tastes and practices. When approached critically a similarly essentialist
understanding of Islam and Muslim consumers appears to shape much of the contemporary discussions. This
understanding becomes especiallyvisible in two key areas: the fixate on segmentation and the accentuation on
difference. Both academic and managerial inditing on Islamic marketing incline to accentuate segmentation.
Religion is regarded as the mundane descriptor that expounds and potentiallysoothsays the deportment of
Muslim consumers. Although there is a recent acknowledgment of inter-differences, such as those among
Muslims living in different countries (Nasr, 2009) orMuslims with different gregarious class positions (Sandıkcı
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and Ger,2010), religion perpetuates to be optically discerned as the homogenizing force across the Muslim
population. This perspective has two potential drawbacks. First, it leads to an overemphasis of religion at the
expense of other aspects of identity such as gender, convivial class, age and their interactions. Furthermore,
Islam itself is not monolithic and is constituted of many sects. How Islam is experienced and practiced in daily
life can vary significantly across different sects. In subsisting research and practice there is withal an overt fixate
on difference. Muslims are generally depicted as consumers inherently different from consumers in general.
Here, homogeneous to multicultural marketing debates (Burton, 2002), there is an underlying postulation that
Muslim consumers have shared characteristics that set them apart from other (read Western) consumers. The
accentuation on differences postulates a staticmodel of culture where categories such as Muslim, ebony or
Hispanic come to be optically discerned as essential and fine-tuned. Such an approach offers only a surface level
and stereotypical insight into identity and comportment and avails little to the construal of involute empirical
realities of people. The fixate on difference (re)engenders an essentialist understanding of Muslim consumers as
genuinely distinct from consumers in general, as if they have no shared characteristics at all. The accentuation on
segmentation and difference is cognate to a normative view of Islamic ethics, that is, the conceptualization of
Islam as a set of rules and norms that are unequivocally and indiscriminately followed by all Muslims. One good
example of the constraints of a normative view of ethics and a resultant fixate on segmentation and difference is
the concept of halal. There is an insistence of halal in both academic and managerial inditements. However, how
halal unfolds in particular markets and productcategories is very involute and dynamic. Consider for example the
case of modest dressing. There is a host of studies conducted on veiling and modest Islamic dress in sundry
components of the world (Mernissi, 1991; El Guindi, 1999; Gole, 2003; Sandıkcı and Ger,2010). These studies
are deemed as opportune religious appareldiffers from context to context. Moreover, within one country, the
designations and practices of veiling vary across time and different convivial classes. For example,
SandıkcıandGer (2010) show how an incipient form of veiling, referred as, emerged in Turkey in the tardy
1970s/early 1980s and transformed tremendously in the next decades. In the early days had a rather uniform look,
consisting of a long loose overcoat and sizably voluminous headscarf. This incipient veiling style was initially
adopted primarily by adolescent, urban and edified middleclass women who were formerly denuded and whose
mothers conventionally were unearthed. Their adoption was visually perceived as a symbol of growing Islamist
opposition to secular, Westernized lifestyles. Despite the Turkish Government’s endeavors to spread. Yet, by the
1990s, its uniform looksfragmented into a plurality of styles and a lucrative and globally-connected fashion
market developed. Recently many different styles and expressions of modest dress circulate in the public space.
As this example denotes, albeit halal is a prevalent denominator of the Islamic notion, how halal is interpreted,
negotiated and experienced inthe circadian lives of Muslims is intricate and dynamic.
Future of research on Islam, consumption and marketing
The examples and discussions presented above designate that a deeper understanding of Muslim consumers and
Islamic markets and marketers requires doing away with essentialist approaches that reify difference. In other
words, in lieu of fixating on differences and imagining the Muslim market as discrete from the market in general,
we require to fixate on how such “differences” play out in daily lives of consumers. We require to examine the
religious, political, cultural and economic resources, forces and tensions that consumers experience and negotiate
as they (re)construct and communicate their identities as Muslims. Such an approach requires a fixate on
practices and discourses and their interrelationships rather than consumers in isolation.Ethnoconsumerism
(Venkatesh, 1995) provides a subsidiary framework to develop a situated understanding of Muslim consumers.
As Venkatesh (1995, p. 2) explicates, ethno consumerism “is a conceptual framework to study consumer
comportment utilizing the theoretical categories originating in a given culture”. It calls for studying deportment
on the substratum of the cultural realities of individuals rather than imposing preexisting categories to explicate
that deportment. In order to achieve this one needs to study “actions, practices, words, noetic conceptions,
language, institutions and the interconnections between these categories” (p. 4). Hence, from the perspective of
ethoconsumerism, while studying or addressing the Islamic market, asking the question of “who is the Muslim
consumer?”and endeavoring to answer it only through the lens of religious norms and values engenders only a
constrained understanding. Instead an ethno consumerist perspective urges philomathsto concentrate on
understanding particular Muslims in particular contexts and examine the practices, discourses, power
relationships and dynamics that characterize those contexts. Varying Islamic discourses interacting with other
discourses and relationships provide different interpretations of religiously congruous consumption.
Differentunderstandings and experiences of Islam enable as well as constrain different consumption practices.
Given such multiplicity, understanding the dynamics of “Islamin local contexts” (Eickelman, 1982) becomes
imperative. A situated understanding of Muslim consumers additionally calls for attending to the interaction and
intersection of religion with other identity variables. The communities ofMuslim consumers are linked by faith
but, as with other consumer groups, they are additionallymarked by gender, class, age, nationality, ethnicity, etc.
For example, consider Muslims in Germany, Turkish Muslims in Germany and Islamists in Turkey. Although
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Islam is the mundane description, identities, practices and dynamics are very different in each of these cases.
Accordingly, future research needs to address how Muslim religiosity interacts with other ideologies, ethics,
values and subjectivities rather than asking questions such as: do all Muslims cerebrate equipollent? Do all
Muslims comport in the same way? Do all Muslims want the same products and accommodations? Do Muslims
want Western brands or Islamic brands? They do not all cerebrate equipollent, they do not deport in the same
way, they do not all want the same products and the historical dynamics and actors that have shaped and
perpetuate to shape the identities of Muslims as consumers will avail render stereotypes redundant and provide
novel insights into the religion-marketing intersection. In this regard, there is a general desideratum for studies
that examine the formation of consumers and marketers in different religious milieu – be it Muslim, Christian,
Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu or else.From a critical perspective, future studies should examine how marketing
practices avail construct Muslims as viable consumer segments. Questions such as – what are the politics of
representation of Muslims in advertising, media and other marketing spaces and what purposes do they
accommodate? What are the potency dynamics involved in such representations, who benefits from them and
who is omitted? – remain intriguing and arduous. While there are homogeneous attributes between Muslim
consumers and other non-mainstream consumer groups, the particularities of Muslims withal needto be
evaluated. While racism has been consequential in the construction of ethnic markets, it is highly likely that
Islam phobia will have unique effects in the construction of the Muslim market. On a cognate domain, the
interplay between religion and politics need to be unpacked. Understanding how Islam and marketing interact in
contexts with different political ideologies and experiences of democracy present fascinating research avenues.
Certainly more research is needed on Muslim entrepreneurs, their motives, aspirations and interpretations and
implementations of marketing principles. While ethical and religious principles seem to be articulated loudly by
Muslim businessowners, to what extent words and deeds correspond needs to be empirically assessed.
Furthermore, keeping in mind that managers operate within the boundaries of the competitive conditions, how
their practices are apprised by market forces and structures should additionally be expounded. In examining how
MNCs compete in Muslim geographies as well as how Islamic companies compete against MNCs in both
Muslim majority and minority contexts, researchers will benefit from adopting a situated and socio-culturally
apprised approach. Finally, critically apprised comparisons of Islamic marketing principles and practices with
those of green marketing, fair trade and ethical consumption initiatives constitute fascinating research paths.
Religion is a key force shaping the contemporary world and is liable to remain as such. Hence unpacking the
religion, consumption and marketing interaction will contribute not only to marketingtheory but withal to our
construal of the contemporary world.
Managerial and policy implicative insinuations
It should be pellucid by now that marketing managers should not surmise Muslims to be a
homogeneous and preexisting segment. Instead they should fixate on the circadian practices for which the
product may be germane and engender solutions through the product for everyday quandaries in that particular
context. For example, the accentuation should be on the solutions that will avail Muslims be more preponderant
Muslims and live opportune Islamic lives rather than focusing the attention only on achieving the “halalness” of
products. Moreover, such solutions should take into consideration that the interpretations and understandings of
more preponderant Muslims and congruous Islamic lives are multiple, dynamic, contested and negotiated. One-
size-fits-all-Muslims products will be unlikely to distribute sustainable prosperity. Instead companies that avail
consumers solve their circadian quandaries and moral tensions are liable to prosper. To understand Muslim
consumers, market researchers need to transcend a parochial reiteration of the pillars of Islam or demographics
of Muslims in different geographies.
Managers of Western companies need to develop a situated understanding of Muslim consumers and of the
Muslim entrepreneurs who compete with them. That is, they should approach each market considering its
specificity – its competitive, moral, socio historic and political market context. Muslim marketing managers will
find the underpinnings of Holt’s (2004) cultural branding strategy to be very subsidiary in developing their own
strategies. If national myths can accommodate to construct iconic brands, so can religious myths. Muslim
marketing managers can potentially employ Holt’s cultural
strategy to develop global brands like Al-Jazeera.In integration to the above managerial implicative insinuations,
there is additionally one potentially paramount policy/governance implicative insinuation. Research makes it
clear that Muslim consumers and managers share ideals and ideologies such as the consumerist ethos and
capitalism with their cohorts. Moreover, Islamic ethics of compassion, benevolence and giving to the poor seem
to resonate with the notion of corporate gregarious responsibility. Perhaps, Muslim entrepreneurs and managers
of MNCs can learn from each other and provide more efficacious and sustainable benefits to the societies in
which they operate.
Furthermore, in an era when multiculturalism seems to be no longer embraced, focusing on the moral and
ideological commonalities as well as global socioeconomic interdependencies may contribute to more placid
inter-cultural, inter-religious and inter-national cognations. Highlighting homogeneous attributes rather than
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differences might indeed enhance a dialogue between civilizations.
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