“…Several authors have proposed different procedures for developing a shariahbased index of development. Recent examples in the literature include, Ali and Hasan (2011), 9 Ali, Tohirin and Ismail (2014), Ashraf (2016), 10 Ho et al (2014), 11 Alaabed et al (2016), 12 Rusydiana and Firmansyah (2018), Hasan et al (2018), 13 Ibrahim et al (2019), 14 Alias et al (2019), 15 Al Rahahleh et al (2019), 16 Cahya et al (2019) 17 and Azmat et al (2020) 18 among others. However, these papers failed to develop a unified model which can incorporate the 'means' for achieving those objectives.…”