Ontologies are used to explicitly represent knowledge of a various domain, and thus provide a shared understanding. Therefore, with the explosion of textual information on the Internet they are becoming a key technology for semantic-driven modeling, knowledge interchange and integration. Islam is one of the most popular religions of the world and Quran and Sunnah is the main source of knowledge for Muslims. To utilize this non-trivial knowledge domain for the betterment of humanity, numerous studies have been carried out to exploit ontologies for capturing knowledge from Islamic knowledge sources. This paper presents a review of different ontology oriented approaches for building domain specific ontology for Islamic knowledge domain, with the goal to identify the main problems in ontology development, and shortcomings of these approaches. © 2005 � ongoing JATIT & LLS.