Abstract
Despite other fundamental differences, Shariah governance (SG) is one of the crucial organizational arrangements within the Islamic bank’s corporate governance (CG) architecture that make Islamic bank different from their conventional counterpart. Due to SG, the management ensures whether or not their bank’s products, services, and operations are in-line with the defined rules of Shariah. This Shariah ensurity is crucial because the concern investment and deposit making stakeholders chooses Islamic banking institutions (IBIs) in order to protect their religious commitments and belief. Therefore, stakeholders are very interested in the Islamicity disclosure and extent of compliance with SG’s attributes of the Islamic banks. The main purpose of this study is to explore the main SG related attributes wherein both the concern investment and deposit making stakeholders are interested. To achieve this purpose, Phenomenological research design, of the qualitative research approach, adopted. Phenomenology is one of the widely used qualitative research strategy wherein the knowledge is make on the basis of individuals’ lived experiences. The present study explored 22 attributes, classified in 5 dimensions, in which the Islamic banks’ customers are interested and that need to be communicated through bank’s annual report and website.

Muhammad Ismail , Zohra Jabeen. (2019) Shariah Disclosure in Islamic Banking Institutions: The Customers’ Perspectives, Hazara Islamicus, Volume 8, Issue 2.
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