Theoretically, Islamic accounting plays a significant role to expose meaning of accountability; however, not much of Islamic accounting studies have been well exposed. This paper aims to provide future research direction in the area of Islamic accounting by promoting accountability and sustainability after examining 150 articles published in 38 leading journals. The map portrays the flow of debates from 1986 to 2017 to answer what has been researched, what are research directions and what is the level of analysis. The paper finds that the role of Islamic accounting researchers to support the meaning of accountability and sustainability is still insignificant. The finding shows that research on standardization of Islamic accounting and testing the accounting information on the annual reports have become the main research focus with countries under study are Bangladesh, MENA and Indonesia. Contribution of this research is to help future research capture the role of Islamic accounting in the emergence of Islamic economics and finance.