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• Minhaj (Muslim World League app) 2025 App

  An app and digital platform of the Muslim World League, built with the Elm company and launched in Mecca on 27 November 2025 after the Islamic Fiqh Council approved the idea in its resolution 23 of 13 Shawwal 1445 AH; it gathers the mushaf, prayer times, qibla, adhkar, religious consultations, courses, zakat and inheritance calculators and virtual communities, in seven languages, and addresses Muslims in minority countries in particular.

• Nusuk 2022 App

  A Saudi digital platform and mobile app launched by the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah on 26 September 2022 as the successor of the Eatmarna app, for Umrah permits, bookings to visit al-Rawda al-Sharifa, Hajj registration, Umrah visas, lodging and transport, in twenty-five languages; the ministry announced 30 million downloads in September 2025, and the minister said in March 2026 that it had passed 51 million users.

• Tarteel (app) 2020 App

  A Qur'an app that listens to a reader's recitation and corrects mistakes with AI; it began as a project in 2018, collected more than 80,000 recitation recordings, joined MIT's Sandbox accelerator in autumn 2019, and launched as an app on iOS and Android on 9 January 2020 after acquiring the Iqra app; it shows 10M+ downloads on Google Play.

• SalamWeb (browser) 2019 Software

  A Chromium-based web browser launched in January 2019 by Salam Web Technologies in Malaysia for Muslim users: it filtered what it deemed haram content through three layers, and carried prayer times, qibla, nearby mosques and the magazine SalamToday; it was the first browser certified by the private Amanie Shariah Supervisory Board, and Wikipedia now describes it as discontinued.

• Labbaik VR (virtual-reality Hajj simulator) 2018 App Pakistan

  A Pakistani virtual-reality Hajj and Umrah simulator app by a Karachi company, showing the holy sites of Mecca and Medina in 360 degrees from exact measurements and 80,000 8K photographs, to train pilgrims in the rites before they travel; the company told Arab News in July 2019 that it had trained 30,000 pilgrims with it through Hajj operators, and calls it 'the world's first virtual reality Hajj and Umrah simulator'.

• Swvl 2017 Platform

  Swvl.

• Sahih al-Bukhari Encyclopedia (website) 2016 Digital library

  A website and digital library devoted to Sahih al-Bukhari and the books written on it, owned by the Ataat al-Ilm Foundation; work began in 2003, its first release came in early 2016 with about sixty books, the second at the end of 2017 with 120, and the third in early 2019; it links each hadith to its manuscripts, to branches of the Yunini recension and to the commentaries, and by its own count holds more than 145 books.

• Muzz (formerly Muzmatch) 2015 App

  A matchmaking and marriage app for Muslims founded by Shahzad Younas in London in 2015 as Muzmatch; it joined Y Combinator in 2017 and renamed itself Muzz in May 2022 after Match Group won a trademark case against it in a British court; it announced ten million members in 2024.

• Muslim Central 2014 Platform

  Muslim Central.

• Quran.com 2014 Platform

  Quran.com.

• 5Pillars (5pillarsuk.com) 2014 Website

  A British Muslim news site whose earliest archived capture, of 26 December 2014, presents it as 'British Muslim news, opinion, analysis', with UK, world and opinion sections.

• Qatar Digital Library 2014 Digital library

  A bilingual (Arabic and English) digital library launched by Qatar Foundation, Qatar National Library and the British Library in October 2014, holding records of Gulf history from the India Office archives and Arabic scientific and heritage manuscripts; it reached almost 2.5 million digitised pages at its tenth anniversary in 2024.

• Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta 2013 Game

  An action-adventure game by the Saudi studio Semaphore, published by its parent Semanoor International, whose first episode came out on 29 May 2013 on PlayStation 3 and iOS and later on PC and Android, in which an Arab treasure hunter and his archaeologist sister follow the trail of the traveller Ibn Battuta; billed as Saudi Arabia's first multiplatform game, it was panned (11 out of 100 on Metacritic), and a sequel, Al Rekaz, was announced in 2018.

• Halalgoogling (search engine) 2013 Website

  An Islamic internet search engine launched on 9 July 2013 that gathered results from other engines such as Google and Bing and showed what it deemed halal, blocking what it deemed haram by Sharia; its launch was reported by agencies and papers in Asia and Europe, and Wikipedia says it appears defunct since February 2025.

• Careem 2012 Platform

  Careem.

• Shahid 2011 Platform

  Shahid.

• Muslim Pro 2010 App

  A prayer-times, adhan, qibla and Qur'an app published by Bitsmedia in Singapore, released on iOS in 2010 and on Android in 2011; it was acquired in 2017 by a Malaysian and a Singaporean investment firm, added the streaming service Qalbox in 2022, and the company says its downloads passed 190 million by Ramadan 2026. A Motherboard investigation of November 2020 found it sending location data to a broker that sold data to US military contractors, after which it said it would stop.

• Quran Majeed (Pakdata app) 2010 App

  A Qur'an reading and listening app by Pakdata of Karachi, with recitations by more than thirty reciters, translations and tafsir in more than fifty languages, prayer times, the adhan, the qibla and memorisation tools, on iOS, Android, Huawei and macOS; its site says it has been in use since 2010, and its Google Play page shows 10M+ downloads.

• SeekersGuidance (seekersguidance.org) 2010 Website

  An online Islamic educational institute founded by the Pakistani-Canadian scholar Faraz Rabbani, offering courses, a question-and-answer service and occasional retreats; known for a time as SeekersHub Global, it returned to its name in 2019; its site's earliest archived capture is of May 2010.

• Islam360 2009 App Pakistan

  A Karachi app for searching the Qur'an and hadith by word, verse and subject, with recitations, translations, tafsir, prayer times and the qibla, in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Romanised Urdu; it began as a desktop program, 'Search Quran', made by Zahid Hussain Chhipa in 2009, then became a free app funded by advertising and donors, published on Google Play by the Islam360 Foundation Trust.

• Quranic Arabic Corpus 2009 Website

  An online linguistic resource that tags each of the Qur'an's 77,430 words for morphology and syntax within the framework of traditional Arabic i'rab, showing the grammar as dependency graphs, with a morphological lexicon, a concordance by lemma and a word-by-word translation drawn from accepted English translations; led by Kais Dukes at the University of Leeds under Eric Atwell, it was first released in November 2009 at corpus.quran.com.

• Digital Qur'an players (Iqra'a and similar devices) 2007 Device Indonesia

  Electronic devices dedicated to showing the text of the Qur'an and playing recorded recitations in step with it, with translations, prayers, prayer times and the qibla; they spread above all in Indonesia, where Reuters reported in September 2007 that many were made by a South Korean company under the brand Iqra'a, priced from 900,000 to 1.9 million rupiah, before attention moved to smartphone apps.

• Sabily (Linux distribution) 2007 Software

  An Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed for Muslim users, first released as Ubuntu Muslim Edition in October 2007 and as Sabily from May 2009, its last release, 'Uhud', coming in December 2011; it shipped with Arabic support and Islamic software out of the box, among them the Qur'an study tool Zekr, the prayer-times program Minbar, a Hijri calendar and a zakat calculator.

• Corpus Coranicum 2007 Digital library

  A digital research project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 2007 to 2024 that put online the sources for the history of the Qur'an: images and data of its earliest manuscripts, with radiocarbon dating of more than forty, a database of the readings, texts from the Qur'an's environment and a literary commentary; led by Angelika Neuwirth and Michael Marx, it has continued since 2025 in an association of its name.

• Darulifta-Deoband.com 2007 Website

  A bilingual (Urdu and English) fatwa website run by the Online Fatwa Department of Darul Uloom Deoband, launched in 2007 after the department was set up in 2005; it held some thirty thousand selected fatwas in 2016, and in January 2022 India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights recommended blocking it; it was blocked on 7 February 2022.

• Islam21c (islam21c.com) 2007 Website

  A British Muslim website whose earliest archived capture, of 28 April 2007, carries the motto 'Changing World: Constant Islam'.

• Islamopedia Online 2007 Website

  An English-language academic website founded in 2007 with a Carnegie grant within the Islam in the West Program at Harvard, directed by the scholar Jocelyne Cesari, offering a database of leading religious figures of the Muslim world and their positions and translations of news and religious opinions from Arabic, Urdu and Persian; it aggregated 44,000 entries from more than a hundred websites, and is now inactive.

• MuslimMatters (muslimmatters.org) 2007 Website

  An English-language Muslim group blog on issues facing Muslims, especially in the West; its earliest archived capture, of 13 March 2007, describes it as 'Discourses in the Intellectual Traditions, Political Situation, and Social Ethics of Muslims'.

• Alukah Network (alukah.net) 2006 Website

  An Islamic network for da'wa, culture, scholarship and letters made of thirteen sites in Arabic and English, founded in 1427 AH / 2006, among them Afaq al-Shari'a, Culture and Knowledge, Society and Reform, Consultations, the Civilisation of the Word, Muslims in the World, a library, a talking library, the al-Majlis al-Ilmi forum and personal sites of scholars and preachers; 'alukah' is Arabic for a message.

• Islam Story (islamstory.com) 2006 Website

  An Islamic history site supervised by the Egyptian preacher and historian Ragheb el-Sergani, presenting Islamic history, the Sira and civilisation from the Prophet's life to modern times in articles, studies, books, audio, video and maps, with biographies and information on today's Muslim countries, in Arabic and several other languages.

• Quraish (video game) 2005 Game

  A 3D real-time strategy game by the Damascus studio Afkar Media, published by Dar al-Fikr and released on 2 August 2005 by the English Wikipedia (the Arabic gives 2007), about the pre-Islamic Arab tribal wars, the Ridda wars and the Rashidun Caliphate's campaigns against the Byzantines and the Sasanians.

• al-Maktaba al-Shamela (the Comprehensive Library) 2005 Digital library

  A free computer program and website for browsing and searching Islamic and classical Arabic books, first released on 1 April 2005, holding some eight thousand books turned into searchable, copyable text, with links from the text to scans of the books; sponsored from 1433 AH by the cooperative da'wa office of al-Rawda in Riyadh, it came to the web and phones and then, in 1447 AH, to macOS and Linux.

• al-Maktaba al-Waqfiya (waqfeya.com) 2005 Digital library

  An online digital library of scanned books of the Shari'a sciences, which scans them and makes them available for download, with manuscripts, theses, Islamic texts and scanned books; it says it holds nearly ten million pages, most as PDF; its site's earliest archived capture is of December 2005.

• Archnet 2002 Digital library

  An open digital project on Islamic architecture and the built environment of Muslim societies, conceived in 1998 by Aga Khan IV, the president of MIT and the dean of its School of Architecture and Planning, officially launched on 27 September 2002, maintained since 2011 by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, and open without logins since January 2014.

• Dorar al-Saniyya (dorar.net) 2001 Digital library

  An Islamic encyclopedias site owned by the Dorar al-Saniyya Foundation, a scholarly waqf foundation that states its aim as preserving the Sunna and building a scholarly reference on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a; it holds the Hadith Encyclopedia and encyclopedias of tafsir, creed, fiqh, religions, sects, ethics, history and the Arabic language, with phone apps and an API; its earliest archived capture is of November 2001.

• Islam.ru 2001 Website

  A Russian-language Islamic portal (with an English version) founded by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Dagestan in 2001 with several foundations, publishing news, articles, religious texts and consultations; Russian scholars count it among the largest Islamic sites of the Russian internet, and its headquarters moved to Dagestan in 2011.

• IslamToday (islamtoday.net) 2001 Website

  A Saudi Islamic website in Arabic and English run by Shaykh Salman al-Ouda, who was a director of its Arabic edition; its earliest archived capture is of 11 April 2001, and its earliest titled capture, of March 2002, calls it 'a web site about islam and muslims'.

• Palestinian Dialogue Network (paldf) 2001 Website

  A Palestinian interactive news and discussion website founded by young Palestinians in 2001 under the motto 'the voice of Palestine to the world and the voice of the world to Palestine'; Arabic Wikipedia describes it as Islamic in affiliation and linked to the Palestinian Information Center, while the network says it takes no party position; it says more than fifty of its members had been killed by the Israeli army by the 2014 Gaza war.

• Askimam 2000 Website

  An English-language fatwa website founded by the South African mufti Ebrahim Desai in 2000 as ask-imam.com and moved to askimam.org in 2004, answering questions of fiqh by the Hanafi school in the Deobandi tradition, each answer checked by its founder; the scholar Gary Bunt called it more comprehensive, influential and wide-ranging than al-Azhar's web resources put together.

• IslamHouse (islamhouse.com) 2000 Website

  A charitable multilingual da'wa website of the Da'wa and Community Awareness Society in the al-Rabwah district of Riyadh, which says its aim is to convey Islam to people in all living languages and to offer a free reference introducing it, with encyclopedias of translated Qur'anic meanings, hadith and Islamic terms; its earliest archived capture is of December 2000.

• WhyIslam (whyislam.org) 2000 Website

  An American website for introducing Islam, whose earliest archived capture, of 20 May 2000, opens with an English rendering of the meaning of Surat al-Fatiha.

• Islamic Fun (educational game) 1999 Game United Kingdom

  A religious educational computer game for children released in 1999 by the UK firm Innovative Minds, made of six minigames built on multiple-choice questions on Islamic themes at three age levels; one of them, 'The Resistance', drew wide controversy in the Western press from 2002, critics seeing incitement in it and its makers calling it a response to occupation.

• Ibn Baz website (binbaz.org.sa) 1999 Website

  The site that gathers the scholarly legacy, fatwas and lessons of Shaykh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz; its earliest archived capture, of November 1999, calls it his only official site, approved by him in writing before his death and supervised by his son Ahmad; today it is a project of the Zad Group owned by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid.

• IslamicFinder (and the Athan app) 1998 App

  A website and app for prayer times, the adhan, the qibla and the Hijri calendar, online before December 1998 as a directory of Islamic centres and mosques in the United States with local prayer times, and maintained in 2001 by the non-profit Wasat.com; its Athan app shows 10M+ downloads on Google Play, and the site calls it 'trusted by 55 million believers'.

• Zabihah 1998 Platform

  Zabihah.

• Islamway 1998 Website

  A multilingual Islamic website known for its audio: sermons, lessons, recitations and nasheeds, with fatwas, articles and books; it was begun by two people in late 1998 as 'The Islamway Radio', and says its team has grown to more than 150 volunteers and that it holds 96,648 sermons and lessons by 794 scholars and preachers and 35,917 recitations by 351 reciters (the site's figures, 2023).

• Islamweb 1998 Website

  A Qatari Islamic portal of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, launched in 1998 as a fatwa site and widened to the Qur'an, consultations, audio, articles and a library, in six languages; The Peninsula reported in 2023 nearly 300,000 fatwas, 200,000 consultations, more than half a million audio files and eight million pages.

• IslamOnline 1997 Website

  An Islamic website in Arabic and English launched on 24 June 1997, with Yusuf al-Qaradawi among its founders, owned by the Al-Balagh Cultural Society in Doha while its editorial team worked in Cairo; known for its 'Ask the Scholar' section, it published some 306,000 items from 2000 to 2003, and in March 2010 fell into crisis when its Qatari management decided to move the work to Doha and its Cairo staff staged a sit-in.

• IslamQA (Islam Question & Answer) 1996 Platform

  An online fatwa and question-and-answer website begun by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid in 1996 and run under his general supervision, counted among the first online fatwa services; it answers questions from Muslims and others in sixteen languages on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a, as it describes itself, and was blocked in Saudi Arabia in 2010 after fatwas were reserved to the Council of Senior Scholars.

• IslamiCity (islamicity.org) 1995 Website

  An American English-language Islamic website launched, it says, in February 1995, presenting itself as a non-sectarian, comprehensive view of Islam and operated by a non-profit; its earliest archived capture, of May 1999, is titled 'IslamiCity in Cyberspace', with sections for commerce, community, education, endowment and conferences.

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