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• International Islamic University Islamabad 1980 University Learning and knowledge

  International Islamic University Islamabad.

• Ta-Ha Publishers 1980 Publisher Books and publishers

  An Islamic publisher in London founded in March 1980 by the husband-and-wife team Afsar Siddiqui and Dr Jamal-un-Nisa Rafai, among the first generation of Islamic publishers in Britain; it began in the back room of a North London print shop, moved to Brixton in 1984, where it stayed for 23 years, Siddiqui set up the Islamic Publishers Association in 1994, and in 2022 it published Tahir Mahmood Kiani's Easy Quran.

• Abu al-Hasan 'Ali al-Hasani al-Nadwi 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn 'Abd al-Hayy al-Hasani al-Nadwi (1333–1420 AH/1914–1999 CE), an Indian scholar, preacher and man of letters, born near Rae Bareli. He studied at Lucknow University and at the Dar al-'Ulum of Nadwat al-'Ulama', taught there and later became its secretary-general. He wrote in Arabic and Urdu, including Madha Khasira al-'Alam bi-Inhitat al-Muslimin?, al-Sira al-Nabawiyya and Rijal al-Fikr wa-al-Da'wa fi al-Islam, and received the King Faisal International Prize in 1980.

• Aghasi Mammadov 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Azerbaijani boxer, born in Baku in 1980. He competed for Turkey for several years, winning the European title in 2000 and world silver in 2001, then returned to Azerbaijan and won the world bantamweight title in 2003 and bronze at the Athens 2004 Olympics.

• Ahmad Shuqairi 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian politician and diplomat (1908–1980), founder and first chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1964–1967). A lawyer in Mandate Palestine, he represented Palestine, Syria and Saudi Arabia at the United Nations and served as assistant secretary-general of the Arab League; he was the son of the Ottoman scholar-politician As'ad al-Shuqairi.

• Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani former professional tennis player who specialised in doubles, born in Lahore in 1980. He is the only Pakistani ever to reach a Grand Slam final, doing so in both men's doubles (with Rohan Bopanna) and mixed doubles (with Květa Peschke) at the 2010 US Open, reached a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 8 in June 2011, and won 18 ATP Tour titles including the 2011 Paris Masters and the 2013 Miami Open. Pakistan's most successful Davis Cup player and the team's captain from 2022, he shared the 2010 Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award with Bopanna, co-founded the 'Stop War Start Tennis' campaign, served as a UNDP goodwill ambassador, has presided over the Pakistan Tennis Federation since February 2024, and retired from ATP Tour events in November 2025.

• Ali Zafar 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani singer-songwriter and actor (born 18 May 1980 at Lahore), son of two University of Punjab professors, who rose to fame with Channo from his debut album Huqa Pani (2003), which sold over five million copies, then built a film career in Bollywood from Tere Bin Laden (2010) and in Pakistani cinema, and received the Pride of Performance (2021).

• Bassirou Diomaye Faye 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese politician (born 1980) from Ndiaganiao, a former tax inspector and general secretary of PASTEF who was imprisoned in 2023–2024 and then won the 2024 presidential election in place of the party's barred candidate Ousmane Sonko, becoming Senegal's fifth and youngest president on 2 April 2024; he appointed Sonko prime minister, then fell out with him and dismissed him in May 2026.

• Ehtisham ul Haq Thanvi 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ehtisham ul Haq Thanvi, the Pakistani scholar of the Thanvi family; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Fares Abbad 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Yemeni reciter and imam (born 1980) who came out of the memorisation circles of the Bilal ibn Rabah Mosque in Sanaa, led the tarawih there from 1994, recorded the complete Qur'an in Yemen and has led prayers in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province since 2006; his recitation is broadcast on Al-Majd Quran channel.

• Hamza Namira 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian singer-songwriter (born 1980) who released three albums with Awakening and two of his own, composed Maher Zain's 'Ya Nabi Salam Alayka', sings of hope, alienation and the human condition, was dubbed 'the voice of the revolution' in 2011, and has presented 'Remix', a series on Arab musical heritage, since 2016.

• Hamza Andreas Tzortzis 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  British Muslim speaker and researcher of Greek descent, born in 1980. He embraced Islam in 2002, became known for lectures and debates in defence of Islam and for his book The Divine Reality (2016), and is a researcher at the Sapience Institute after years with iERA.

• Hoor Al Qasimi 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Hoor Al Qasimi (born 1980) is an Emirati art curator, a daughter of the Ruler of Sharjah, and the founder, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, which she established in 2009 after co-curating the Sharjah Biennial's sixth edition at the age of twenty-two. Educated at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal College of Art, she was named the most influential person in the contemporary art world in ArtReview's Power 100 of 2024.

• Linda Sarsour 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  American political activist of Palestinian descent, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1980, the eldest of seven children of Palestinian immigrants. She led the Arab American Association of New York, first gained national attention protesting police surveillance of American Muslims, co-chaired the 2017 Women's March — after which Time named her and her co-chairs among its 100 most influential people — was lead plaintiff in the legal challenge to the Trump travel ban, and co-founded the MPOWER Change online organising platform.

• Mahmoud Khalil al-Hussary 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Qur'an reciter and scholar of the recitations (1917–1980), born at Shubra al-Namla near Tanta. The first reciter to record the complete Qur'an in the murattal style (Hafs, 1961), he also recorded the Warsh, Qalun and Duri recitations, served as Shaykh al-Maqari' of Egypt, taught at al-Azhar and wrote twelve books on Qur'anic sciences.

• Maulana Ghulam Ullah Khan 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Maulana Ghulam Ullah Khan, the Deobandi scholar in Peshawar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Mohammad Hatta 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian statesman and independence leader, born at Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, in 1902. He studied at Rotterdam, led the Indonesian students' association in the Netherlands, was exiled by the Dutch to Digul and Banda, and with Sukarno proclaimed Indonesia's independence on 17 August 1945; he served as the country's first vice president (1945-1956) and third prime minister, and is remembered as 'the Proclamator' and the father of Indonesian cooperatives.

• Mohammad Natsir 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian scholar and politician (1908–1993) from West Sumatra, fifth prime minister of Indonesia (1950–1951) and leader of the Masyumi party, author of forty-five books and hundreds of articles on Islam and the state; imprisoned 1962–1964, founder of the Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council, King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (1980), and a National Hero of Indonesia since 2008.

• Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution overthrew him in 1979. The son of Reza Shah, founder of the Pahlavi state, he pursued the White Revolution reforms on the strength of oil revenues and the American alliance, left Iran in January 1979, moved between several countries in exile, and died in Cairo on 27 July 1980; he is buried in the al-Rifa'i Mosque there.

• Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani (born 1 November 1980 in Doha) is a Qatari diplomat, economist and politician who has been Prime Minister of Qatar since March 2023 and Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2016. A member of the House of Thani, he chaired the Qatar Fund for Development (2014–2024) and the Qatar Investment Authority (2018–2023) and was deputy prime minister (2017–2023).

• Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian-born Saudi hadith scholar (1930–2017) who studied at Deoband and al-Azhar and took his PhD at Cambridge (1966), professor emeritus at King Saud University, known for his critique of Goldziher's and Schacht's theories of hadith, editor of 'Sahih Ibn Khuzayma', the 'Muwatta' and 'Sunan Ibn Maja', and King Faisal Prize laureate for Islamic Studies (1980).

• Nasser Al-Qatami 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi Qur'an reciter and author, imam and khatib of the Abdullah ibn Nasser Al-Muhaini Mosque in Riyadh. He began leading prayer at the age of fourteen, supervised and taught Qur'an memorisation circles for more than eleven years, and has issued more than twenty audio releases and several books on contemplation of the Qur'an.

• Noura Erakat 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian-American legal scholar (born 1980 in California), professor at Rutgers University and co-founder of the online magazine Jadaliyya. Her book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (2019) is a leading study of international law and the Palestinian question.

• Rachid Eljay 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  French imam and video creator of Moroccan origin, born in Brest in 1980. He became imam of the Sunna mosque in Brest in 2004 and grew famous through his preaching videos on YouTube; from late 2015 he changed his discourse, and in 2019 he survived an assassination attempt.

• Salima Mazari 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan politician, born in Iran in 1980 to a refugee family that had fled the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She studied at the University of Tehran and worked for the International Organization for Migration before returning to Afghanistan. Appointed in 2018 as district governor of Charkint (Chahar Kint) in Balkh province — one of only three women district governors in the country — she led her district's resistance to the Taliban's 2021 offensive until the republic collapsed, then escaped to the United States.

• Sami Yusuf 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  The British-Azerbaijani singer whose album Al-Mu'allim (2003) sold millions — the best-known modern Islamic vocalist.

• Seydou Keita 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malian retired footballer, born in Bamako in 1980. A midfielder who played in France for Marseille, Lorient and Lens, then for Sevilla and Barcelona in Spain — he was the first Malian to play for Barcelona — and later for Roma in Italy; he represented Mali for many years.

• Shabana Mahmood 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  British Labour Party politician and barrister, born in Birmingham in 1980 to parents of Pakistani origin, who spent part of her childhood in Taif. She read law at Lincoln College, Oxford, practised as a barrister specialising in professional indemnity, was elected MP for Birmingham Ladywood in 2010 as one of the UK's first female Muslim MPs, served as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor (2024–2025) — the first Muslim to hold the lord chancellorship — and has been Home Secretary since September 2025.

• Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (born 3 June 1980) is the Emir of Qatar since 25 June 2013, its eighth emir and one of the world's youngest monarchs at his accession. Educated in Britain, he graduated from Sandhurst in 1998, became heir apparent in 2003 after his elder brother Jassim renounced the claim, and received power by his father Hamad bin Khalifa's abdication, a step without Gulf precedent. His reign has seen the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the diplomatic crisis with Qatar's neighbours (2017–2021), the first Shura Council elections in 2021, and repeated Qatari mediation in the region's conflicts.

• Umut Yıldız 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish astrophysicist, born in 1980. After studying at Ankara, Groningen and Leiden, he worked for years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on deep-space communication and big-data analysis, then returned to Turkey, where he serves as Director of Science Communication and a faculty member at Middle East Technical University.

• Wael Ghonim 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Internet activist and computer engineer, born in Cairo in 1980 and raised in Abha, Saudi Arabia. He was Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa when in 2010 he anonymously created the Facebook page 'We are all Khaled Said', which became a launching point for the call to the 25 January 2011 demonstrations. He was held in secret detention for 11 days, and his emotional television interview on his release re-energised the protests that forced Hosni Mubarak from power. He wrote the memoir Revolution 2.0, founded Tahrir Academy, and co-founded the Parlio platform.

• Yahya Khan 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani general (1917–1980) who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971 under martial law, and as commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971. His refusal to transfer power to the Awami League, which had won the 1970 election, led to civil war in East Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh, after which he resigned and remained under house arrest until 1977.

• Yasmin Mogahed 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  American Muslim educator and motivational speaker specialising in spirituality, psychology and personal development, born in 1980. She is the first female instructor at the AlMaghrib Institute and the author of Reclaim Your Heart.

• Yasser Al-Dosari 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi Quran reciter and scholar, born in al-Kharj governorate in 1980. He memorised the Quran by the age of fifteen and led prayers in Riyadh mosques from 1995, before being appointed a Taraweeh and Tahajjud imam at Masjid al-Haram in 2015 and then a permanent imam and khatib there. He is an associate professor of comparative fiqh at Umm Al-Qura University.

• The Message of the Qur'an 1980 Book Books and publishers

  Muhammad Asad's English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an with his commentary in the notes, published complete in Gibraltar in 1980 by Dar al-Andalus after a partial edition of the first nine suras in Geneva in 1964; he declared his debt to Muhammad Abduh and drew on classical tafsir in the notes, many read it as rationalist, the Saudi Permanent Committee for Ifta criticised it, it has never been printed in Saudi Arabia, and it has been translated into German, Spanish, Bosnian, Turkish and Swedish, among others.