An upcoming trend that has caught the attention of marketers and consumers alike is the recent
debut of retailers that projected itself as an Islamic retailer. This paper provides a critical overview of
the existing scholarship on the influence of Islam specifically towards consumer retail store selection.
This paper outlined the general store attributes of an Islamic retailer based on the synthesis of past
literatures. As the store image or “store personality” is determined as one of the factors of store
choice, which is largely based on the store attributes, it is pertinent for retailers to project the
“appropriate” Islamic store image in the minds of consumers
