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• Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt 1977 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Egypt

  An Egyptian joint-stock bank based in Cairo, incorporated in 1977 and opened to customers on 5 July 1979, which describes itself as the first Egyptian Islamic commercial bank; its founding is linked with Prince Mohammed al-Faisal, and in 2025 it had 43 branches and about 2.5 million current accounts.

• Faisal Islamic Bank of Sudan 1977 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Sudan

  An Islamic bank in Khartoum, founded in May 1977 by 86 Sudanese, Saudi and other founders from Islamic states, which describes itself as having an Islamic orientation and Sudanese features; in 2016 it was described as Sudan's largest lender.

• Kuwait Finance House (KFH) 1977 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Arab EmiratesBahrainGermany

  A Kuwaiti bank founded in 1977 as Kuwait's first bank operating according to Sharia rulings; it opened on 31 August 1978 and was listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange in 1984; it has branches and subsidiaries in Bahrain, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, completed its acquisition of Ahli United Bank in 2022, and Kuwaiti state funds hold its largest stakes.

• Abdel Halim Hafez 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian singer and actor (1929–1977), known as al-Andaleeb el-Asmar ('the Dark Nightingale'), 'King of Music' and 'the Voice of the People'. He was one of the greatest Arab singing voices of the twentieth century, recording more than three hundred songs and starring in sixteen films; his patriotic songs became the voice of the 1952 revolution and its decades, and crowds sang them again in the revolution of 2011.

• Abdul Majid Daryabadi 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian scholar, writer and exegete (1892–1977) of Daryabad in Barabanki district, author of the Tafsir-e-Majidi in Urdu and English and editor of the weekly Sidq-e-Jadid until his death. In his youth he passed through a rationalist and agnostic period, about 1909–1918, then returned to Islam, took the oath of allegiance from Ashraf Ali Thanwi in 1928 and renewed it under Hussain Ahmad Madani, and wrote more than seventy books on exegesis, biography, philosophy and psychology.

• Abdul Somad 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian preacher and hadith scholar born in Asahan, North Sumatra, in 1977. He studied at Al-Azhar and at Dar al-Hadith al-Hasaniyyah in Rabat, took his doctorate at Omdurman Islamic University, taught hadith studies at UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim in Riau (2009–2019), and rose to fame through humorous sermons on YouTube, becoming one of Indonesia's most-followed preachers. He has written popular question-and-answer books and translated Arabic works.

• Abdullah Shams El-Din 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian lyric poet (1921–1977), educated at al-Azhar, who served as cultural adviser to Egypt's Supreme Council for Muslim Youth. Nicknamed the 'Poet of Tawhid', he wrote the anthem 'Allah Akbar fawqa kayd al-mu'tadi' in 1956, which later served as Libya's national anthem, and received the Order of the Republic, first class.

• Ahmed Barada 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian former professional squash player, born in Cairo in 1977. He reached world No. 2 in December 1998 and was runner-up at the 1999 World Open; a stabbing injury in 2000 cut his career short, and he retired in August 2001.

• Ahmed Kalaja 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Albanian imam and public figure (born 16 April 1977 in Tirana), imam-khatib of Tirana's Dine Hoxha Mosque and a member of the Tirana Council of Muftis for over fifteen years; trained in Damascus and Medina, and author of a 2017 University of East Anglia dissertation on Muslim clergy and interreligious harmony in Albania. His Facebook page counted 326,000 followers in October 2024 (Context study).

• Brother Ali 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  American rapper and producer, born Jason Douglas Newman in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1977 and raised in Minneapolis. He converted to Islam at the age of 15, released albums including The Undisputed Truth (2007), Us (2009) and Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color (2012) with the Rhymesayers collective, and is known for his advocacy for Palestinian liberation.

• Elvedin Pezić 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian preacher (born 1977 in Travnik), among the most listened-to religious authorities of the Bosnian-speaking area; he studied at the Islamic University of Medina and took a doctorate at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Novi Pazar in 2023, and posts lecture recordings daily — his official Facebook page counted over 372,000 followers in August 2026.

• Elvis Naçi 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Albanian theologian and imam (born 1977 in Tirana), formerly director of Islamic preaching at the Islamic Community of Albania and preacher at Tirana's Tabak (Tanners') Mosque, and founder of the Firdeus Non-Profit Cultural Foundation, whose appeals after the 2019 earthquake raised over €7 million; his Facebook page counts over 1.4 million followers.

• Faisal Islam 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  British journalist, born in Manchester in 1977 to Bengali parents from West Bengal. He worked at The Observer, was economics editor of Channel 4 News and political editor of Sky News, and since 2019 has been economics editor of BBC News and an occasional presenter of Newsnight.

• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian lawyer and politician (1905–1977), finance minister of Assam in 1939 and again from 1957 to 1966, the province's advocate general from 1946, and a Union cabinet minister from 1966. As fifth president of India (1974–1977) he proclaimed the Emergency of June 1975 on the prime minister's advice; he died in office of a heart attack on 11 February 1977, the second Muslim to hold the presidency.

• Fawzi al-Qawuqji 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Arab military officer (1890–1977) from Tripoli who served in the Ottoman, Syrian and Iraqi armies and commanded the Arab Liberation Army in Palestine in 1948.

• Frédéric Kanouté 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malian retired footballer, born in France in 1977. A striker who starred for Sevilla, winning two consecutive UEFA Cups (2006 and 2007), and was named the 2007 African Footballer of the Year — the first player born outside Africa to win the award — after a career in France and England; he retired in 2013.

• Hassan El Fakiri 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Former Norwegian footballer of Moroccan origin (born 1977 in Temsamane, Morocco), capped eight times by Norway, who played for Lyn, Brann, Monaco and Borussia Mönchengladbach before moving into coaching, as an assistant at Saint-Étienne and a player development coach at Brann.

• Jonathan A. C. Brown 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  American scholar of Islamic studies (born 1977 in Washington, D.C.), Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University. A convert to Islam (1997), he works on hadith, Islamic law and the Prophet's legacy; his books include The Canonization of al-Bukhari and Muslim (2007), Misquoting Muhammad (2014) and Slavery and Islam (2019).

• Khan Amirzadeh Khan 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani Pashtun lawyer and politician (1918–1977) of Bakhshali in Mardan. A Khudai Khidmatgar member from his student days and then a National Awami Party leader, he won both National and Provincial Assembly seats in 1970, served as the Frontier province's senior minister for law, education and parliamentary affairs, sat on the committee that framed the 1973 constitution, stood as the combined opposition's presidential candidate in 1973, and was tried in the Hyderabad conspiracy case.

• Laila Ali 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  American retired professional boxer and television personality, born in Miami Beach in 1977, the daughter of the boxer Muhammad Ali. She retired undefeated with 24 wins, 21 by knockout, holding the WBC, WIBA, IWBF and IBA super middleweight titles, and later worked in television, including Dancing with the Stars and American Gladiators.

• Maryam Mirzakhani 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Maryam Mirzakhani (12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician, the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal (2014), for her work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces. She won two International Mathematical Olympiad gold medals, took her doctorate at Harvard in 2004, was a professor at Stanford University, and died of breast cancer aged forty.

• Modibo Keïta 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malian politician (1915–1977) from Bamako who began as a teacher, co-founded the Sudanese Union, became prime minister of the Mali Federation in 1959 and then first president of independent Mali (1960–1968), applying African socialism and leading in the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organisation of African Unity, until Moussa Traoré overthrew him in 1968; he was imprisoned and died a prisoner in Bamako on 16 May 1977.

• Mostafa Khomeini 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Mostafa Khomeini, the Iranian cleric and son of Imam Khomeini; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Muhammad Ali Mirza 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani Islamic scholar, lecturer and mechanical engineer, born in 1977 in Jhelum, Punjab. He lectures on video through YouTube from a research academy he runs in his home city, presenting himself as a critic of sectarian division. His views have drawn wide controversy: he was arrested in 2020 and 2025 and survived assassination attempts.

• Nawal Al-Eid 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  A Saudi professor of the Sunnah and its sciences at Princess Nourah University in Riyadh, and a preacher counted among the most prominent women preachers in Saudi Arabia and beyond. She won the Prince Naif International Prize for the Prophet's Sunnah for her research on women's rights in the Sunnah; academic literature reports over four and a half million followers for her on Twitter, and she founded the Ithra' al-Ma'rifa endowment in Riyadh in 2012.

• Pipik Dian Irawati 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian preacher, born in Semarang in 1977. She began as a model and actress, became the wife of the preacher Jeffry Al Buchori, and after his death in 2013 continued his preaching in women's assemblies and on Instagram and TikTok to millions of followers.

• Shamsheer Vayalil 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Shamsheer Vayalil (born 11 January 1977) is an Indian radiologist and healthcare entrepreneur from Kozhikode in Kerala, founder and chairman of Burjeel Holdings, built as VPS Healthcare, which grew from his first hospital in Abu Dhabi in 2007 into a network of hospitals and medical centres across the Middle East and India. He received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman in 2014.

• Sharif Hasan Deobandi 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Sharif Hasan Deobandi, the Shaikh al-Hadith of Darul Uloom Deoband; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Syafiq Riza Basalamah 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian preacher, lecturer and author, born in Jember in 1977. He graduated from the Islamic University of Madinah with honours at all three degree levels, teaches in Jember, and his lectures are broadcast on Rodja channels and YouTube to a wide audience.

• Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian Islamic scholar and Sharia judge from Ijzim, founder of Hizb ut-Tahrir in 1953. Trained at al-Azhar and Dar al-Ulum in Cairo, he rose through the Sharia courts to the Jerusalem court of appeal before resigning in 1950, then settled in Beirut. His books — above all The System of Islam (Nidham al-Islam) — made him one of the most influential Islamist thinkers of the twentieth century. He died in 1977.

• Uthman ibn Farooq 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani-American imam and preacher, born in Pakistan in 1977 and raised in the United States. He is an educator at Masjid Al-Ribat in San Diego and founder of the One Message Foundation (2014), known for street dawah and recorded debates.

• Ceddo 1977 Film Films Senegal

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• Ceddo 1977 Film Films Senegal

  Ousmane Sembène's Senegalese classic about a village resisting Islam, Christianity and colonialism alike — a pillar of African cinema portraying Islam's arrival with a critical eye.

• Interpretation of the Meanings of the Noble Qur'an in the English Language (Hilali–Khan) 1977 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Muhammad Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan, completed in Medina in 1972 and first published in Chicago in 1977 by Kazi under a title presenting it as a summary of Ibn Kathir's tafsir supplemented by al-Tabari and al-Bukhari; it was reissued in Ankara in 1978 with a letter from the Islamic University of Medina, revised by Darussalam in 1994 and printed by the King Fahd Complex in 1997; published more than twenty times, it is written in contemporary English with commentary in brackets, and has been both widely used and much criticised.