Paradigm of Business Ethics in Marketing Practices of Islamic Banking and Financial Institutions
Abstract
Over the last several decades, Islamic banking and finance (IBF) has experienced a global
record growth in finance industry. Its research is evolved from “foundation to strategic
implementation paradigm for practitioners”. It addresses the ethnicity of the IBF and
marketing of the financial service firms who are interested in marketing IBF services to their
customers and provide guidelines to the policy makers, regulators and other stakeholders in
market ends. The aim of this paper is to explore the shariah’s role in marketing practices of
IBF products, the challenges in the way of practicing Islamic marketing principles along with
the proposed underlying paradigm shift towards Muslims customers satisfaction because of
the IBF model of 21st century to meet the need of the customers.