Islamic Concept of Advertising; Exploring the Advertising According to Islam (original) (raw)

ADVERTISEMENT & ISLAM: A MUSLIM WORLD PERSPECTIVE

Contemporary advertisement practices have created many social and ethical problems due to their materialistic focus. The effect of these problems can also be seen in many Muslim countries including Pakistan in terms of diversion from their cultural and religious values. This paper attempts to integrate the Islamic business ethics in contemporary advertisement practices to find the solution of the ethical dilemma which is created by these materialistic advertisement practices. The focus of Islamic way of business is not just to earn profit but to serve the society. The human welfare is the gist of Islamic business ethics. This paper attempts to evaluate advertisement in terms of Quran and Hadiths of the Holy Prophet (PBUM) and discuss unethical aspects of the contemporary advertisement practices.

A FRESH PERSPECTIVE INTO ISLAMIC ADVERTISING ETHICS

The purpose of this article is to give a fresh look into the issue of unethical advertising. The current researches on advertising ethics are focused the issue of unethical advertising, deceptions, advertisements targeting children, the exploitation of sex and gender, and also the issues of subliminal advertising. Minimal emphasis is given to the root of the problem. At the end of this article, the author proposes a fresh look on the issue of advertising ethics through the theological interpretation. Since most of the negative aspects come in the form of social impacts, a thorough study is being proposed to understand advertising roles especially in terms of its social functions.

Contemporary Advertising In Islamic Perspective

Jurnal Peurawi: Media Kajian Komunikasi Islam

This paper purposes to examine the principles and implementation of contemporary advertising in an Islamic perspective. The research employs the method of literature study, by examining the perspective of Islamic advertising from various research literatures, the opinions of scholars and the Qur'an and Hadith. Based on literature review, the development of advertising is still trapped in the practice of materialistic advertising that overrides the ethics of Islamic communication. For this reason, this study formulates six advertising principles referring to the Qur'an and Hadith as well as the opinions of scholars, namely the principle of monotheism, the principle of honesty, the principle of justice, the principle of trust, the principle of education and the principle of Istiqomah/consistent. This study can be developed by referring to technological developments and the need for communication and religious research in the future.

Advertising Ethics: A Quranic Perspective

Advertising is one of the most important aspects in the business world. It can be a breaking point to determine the profitability of the company. This industry has a very significant impact not only on individual companies but also on the GDP of a country due to the aggregate amount of revenue generated yearly. most of current researches focus on the issue of unethical advertising and their impacts on the society. Rarely can bee seen researches which focus from a theological perspective of advertising. This article provides a thorough insight on a Quranic persepctive on advertising.

A COLLECTION OF ISLAMIC ADVERTISING PRINCIPLES

Since long advertising is fraught with ill-practices of various nature and intensities. It has been criticized by Muslim and non-Muslim scholars alike, making it imperative to call for more ethical advertising. While ethics are usually relative and without an overarching watching body, it lacks uniform interpretation as well as enforcement. Islamic advertising is proposed as a potential solution to the unethical advertising practices. This conceptual paper, written after library research, gathers principles of Islamic advertising from the available literature, given by various religious and academic scholars. It was found that these principles satisfactorily provide a response to the criticism on advertising, at least in theory. It can be postulated that if these principles are applied most of the problems in, and related to contemporary advertisements can be curtailed.

A collection of Islamic advertising principles: revisited and detailed

International Journal of Islamic Marketing and Branding, 2018

This paper provides a detailed exposition of the principles of Islamic advertising, as found in the writings by religious and academic scholars and extracted from relevant verses of the Holy Qur'an. This paper is theoretical in nature and uses content analysis for the findings. The principles detailed here open newer and wider avenues for research in the area of Islamic marketing/advertising and will help in furthering the nascent concept of Islamic advertising. Islamic advertising concept stands contrary to the contemporary practices. As such this paper has great implications in terms of application of Islamic advertising to real-world practices too. With a growing concern for business ethics, the concept of Islamic advertising will not only eradicate the ill-effects of contemporary advertising, but will also provide sound evidence for revising advertising policies.

The Ethics of Advertising in Islamic Economics

2012

Advertising is the huge weapon of manufacturers located in frontier to campaign their product. Capitalist has been—for a very long time—spending a great amount of money in advertising. They believe that advertising can not be separated from their economic activities. Capitalists, therefore, use all means to make attractive advertisement. They raced to produce a unique and interested advertisement. Soon, advertising has lost its real function to give information of product to consumer. Further, there are so many advertising activities which break the norms. They show part of body that should not be visible. Some other use rude words and jokes. Others are provocation to use dangerous items. Frequently, some advertising insult other product, or other race. Those are all harmful for people, especially for Muslim.

Islamic and Western Ethics in Advertising

2019

Ethical advertising and Islamic advertising appear dissimilar as the former refers to Western ethics and the latter Islamic ethics. The question of whether ethical advertising should be used in place of Islamic advertising is raised in the paper. This discussion is significant as selecting an apt concept for advertising to Muslims is essential. This is supported by Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that claims a person’s conception of the world is dictated by language. When the concept of Islamic advertising is used, Islamic ethics and not Western ethics is brought to the foreground. The article springs a surprise of whether there is indeed the demarcation between Western and Islamic ethics or not. Western categories of normative ethics have been used by Muslim scholars with the difference being the prerequisite for adapting Western ethics using the main sources of the Qur’an and the Sunnah from the Islamic perspective.

Studying the theoretical model of Islamic commercial advertising messages versus current commercial advertising messages

2013

The goals of prophetic mission from the view point of Islam have been the development and elevation of human being and institution of justice in human society and the factors of these goals are promoting ethics and spirituality in society, encouraging moderateness and avoiding ravishment, emphasizing on inspiration and heart effects and human greatness which must be presented in the commercial ads. This study is to attain a comprehensively theoretical model in realm of Islamic commercial ads in globe. This model can be regarded as a basic one for promoting products in Islamic societies by using the giant capacity of Islamic marketing.

The Advertising Practitioner and the Imbuement of Al-Ghazali's Islamic Ethics Framework

Forum Komunikasi, 2019

The imbuement of Islamic ethics by advertising practitioners is central to the sculpturing of Islamic advertising messages. Ethical advertising encompasses several dimensions and of major focus here is ethics in relation to the advertising practitioner. The Muslim Islamic advertising practitioner has the role of forming advertising objectives that would succeed in achieving advertising effects on earth and in attaining eternal goodness in the Hereafter in line with Islamic ethics. The article applies four themes of a framework generated from Al-Ghazali's Al-Ihya' to Muslim Islamic advertising practitioners. The themes centre on the practitioners' need for understanding the ideals of a believer while conducting business activities by embracing the key concepts of vicegerency, Tawhid, Ihsan, Islam, Iman and wasatiyyah in repelling moral myopia that underscores the practitioners' difficulty in identifying ethical issues. The Muslim practitioner who recognises and embraces the Islamic purpose of life would use Islam as a holistic guide in life including when making decisions for advertising production.