The advertising practitioner and the imbuement of Al-Ghazali’s Islamic ethics Framework

Mokhtar, Aida (2019) The advertising practitioner and the imbuement of Al-Ghazali’s Islamic ethics Framework. Forum Komunikasi, 14 (1). pp. 1-22. ISSN 01278991 E-ISSN 01282379

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	2646/74257
Uncontrolled Keywords:	advertising, ethics, Islam, Al-Ghazali, al-Ihya'
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc > BP1 Islam > BP173.66 Islam and freedom of speech B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc > BP1 Islam > BP174 The Practice of Islam > BP185.7 Mass media and telecommunication in Islam
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Communication
Depositing User:	Dr. Aida Mokhtar
Date Deposited:	29 Aug 2019 10:42
Last Modified:	04 Feb 2020 12:11
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/74257

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