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• Swiss Albums Chart (Swiss Hitparade) 1983 Chart Awards and competitions Switzerland

  Switzerland's Albums Top 100 within the Swiss Hitparade, published since late 1983; the museum records an album's peak, such as number 14 for Yusuf's An Other Cup in 2006.

• Aga Khan University 1983 University Learning and knowledge

  Aga Khan University.

• Bank Islam Malaysia 1983 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Malaysia

  A Malaysian bank based in Kuala Lumpur that began operating on 1 July 1983 as Malaysia's first Islamic bank, with paid-up capital of RM80 million; Lembaga Tabung Haji, the pilgrims' fund, was its main shareholder, and it went through a recovery plan after the losses of 2005 and 2006.

• International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) 1983 University Learning and knowledge

  A Malaysian public university established on 23 May 1983 under the sponsorship of eight governments and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, headquartered at Gombak near Kuala Lumpur with six other campuses; it teaches in English and Arabic across fourteen faculties ("kulliyyah"), and since 1987 has produced more than 70,000 graduates from over a hundred countries.

• Islami Bank Bangladesh 1983 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Bangladesh

  A Bangladeshi bank in Dhaka, incorporated on 13 March 1983 and operating from 30 March 1983 as the first shari'ah-compliant bank in Bangladesh, with the Islamic Development Bank and Saudi and Kuwaiti investors among its founders; it is the country's largest private banking network, changed ownership in 2017 and faced a loan crisis in 2022.

• Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani (born 29 September 1983) is the chairperson of Qatar Museums, a daughter of Qatar's former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and a sister of the current Emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. After graduating from Duke University in 2005 she founded the philanthropic organisation Reach Out To Asia, and in 2010 she founded the Doha Film Institute. Ranked among the most influential figures in the art world, she has overseen record acquisitions for Qatar Museums, including the 2015 purchase of Gauguin's 'When Will You Marry?'.

• Anas Sarwar 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Scottish Labour politician, born in Glasgow in 1983 to Pakistani Muslim parents. He studied dentistry at the University of Glasgow and worked as a dentist in Paisley, was elected MP for Glasgow Central in 2010 succeeding his father Mohammad Sarwar, Britain's first Muslim MP, has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament since 2016, led the Scottish Labour Party from 2021 to 2026 as the first Muslim and the first person of Asian descent to lead a major UK political party, and has been Minister of State for Trade since July 2026, created Baron Sarwar.

• Assimi Goïta 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malian general and politician (born 1983) from Bamako who led the August 2020 coup that overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and chaired the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, then served as interim vice president under Bah Ndaw before seizing power in May 2021 and becoming interim president; since 2025 he has been Mali's sixth president without an election. Under his rule Mali withdrew from ECOWAS, the Alliance of Sahel States was formed, and Mali cut military ties with France and allied itself with Russia.

• Atif Aslam 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani playback singer, songwriter and actor (born 12 March 1983 at Wazirabad) who began with the band Jal, broke through with Aadat and the solo debut Jal Pari (2004), became a leading playback voice in Pakistan and Bollywood, made his acting debut in Bol (2011), and received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (2008) and several Lux Style Awards.

• Farhaan Behardien 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African former international cricketer, born in Johannesburg in 1983. A right-handed all-rounder, he played 59 One Day Internationals and 38 Twenty20 Internationals for South Africa between 2012 and 2018, was appointed T20I captain in January 2017, spent most of his domestic career with the Titans between 2006 and 2020, and announced his retirement from international cricket in December 2022.

• Franck Ribéry 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  French retired footballer, born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France in 1983. A winger who spent twelve seasons at Bayern Munich, winning the 2013 Champions League and the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award that year, before closing his career at Fiorentina and Salernitana; he won 81 caps for France. A convert to Islam, he adopted the name Bilal Yusuf Mohammed.

• Gökhan Saki 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish-Dutch kickboxer and mixed martial artist born in Schiedam in 1983 to Turkish parents from Kars. He won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2008 tournament in Hawaii, became the inaugural Glory Light Heavyweight Champion in 2014, and later fought twice in the UFC.

• Hamza Abdullah 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  American football safety (born 1983) from Los Angeles, drafted by Tampa Bay in 2005 and later with Denver, Cleveland and Arizona; raised a devout Muslim, he sat out the 2012 season with his younger brother Husain to perform the Hajj.

• Hashim Amla 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African former cricketer and captain, born in Durban in 1983 to a Muslim family of Indian descent whose grandfather migrated from Surat in 1927. A right-handed top-order batter, he played for South Africa from 2004 to 2019 and is the country's second-highest run-scorer in Tests with 9,282 runs and third-highest in One Day Internationals with 8,113 runs, with 28 Test centuries and 27 ODI centuries. In 2012 he scored South Africa's first Test triple century (311 not out against England), in 2014 he became South Africa's first permanent non-white Test captain, and he retired from international cricket in 2019 before working as a batting mentor and coach. The sources describe him as a devout Muslim who refused to wear an alcohol company's logo on his kit.

• Hassanein Muhammad Makhlouf 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Azhari scholar (1890–1990). Born in Cairo to a family from Bani Adi in Upper Egypt, he graduated from the School of Sharia Judiciary in 1914, served as a sharia judge, held the office of Grand Mufti of Egypt twice (1946–1950 and 1952–1954), headed al-Azhar's fatwa committee, and wrote Kalimat al-Qur'an Tafsir wa-Bayan and Safwat al-Bayan li-Ma'ani al-Qur'an.

• Idris of Libya 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  King of Libya (1889–1983). Born at Jaghbub, he succeeded his cousin Ahmed Sharif as head of the Senussi order in 1916, became Emir of Cyrenaica and then of Tripolitania, spent the Italian colonial period in exile in Egypt, and was proclaimed king of the United Kingdom of Libya on 24 December 1951; deposed by the coup of 1 September 1969, he lived in exile in Cairo, where he died, and was buried in Al-Baqi Cemetery, Medina.

• Ismail Matar 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Emirati former forward born in Abu Dhabi in 1983. He won the Golden Ball at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship and led the United Arab Emirates to its first trophy, the 2007 Gulf Cup, as the tournament's best player and top scorer; he spent nearly his whole club career at Al-Wahda (2001–2024) and won 136 caps.

• Lady Amin (Nusrat al-Amin) 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Nusrat al-Amin (Lady Amin), the Isfahani jurist and theologian of the early twentieth century; her entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Mansour Al Salmi 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi preacher and Quran reciter, born in Jeddah in 1983. He serves as an imam in Jeddah and teaches Islamic education there, and became known for his recitations and dawah lectures, his frequent joint appearances with the preacher Nayef Al-Sahfi, and recitation recordings on his official YouTube channel that reach millions of listeners.

• Maulana Shamsul Haq Afghani 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Maulana Shamsul Haq Afghani, the Pashtun scholar and politician; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Mido 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian football manager and former striker, born in Cairo in 1983 and known universally as Mido. A Zamalek youth product, he won the Belgian Ebony Shoe with Gent, then played for Ajax, Marseille, Roma, Tottenham Hotspur and Middlesbrough among many clubs in a much-travelled career; he won 51 caps and scored 19 goals for Egypt, winning the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations. After retiring at Barnsley in 2013 he became a coach, managing Zamalek, Ismaily, Wadi Degla, Saudi club Al Wehda and Misr Lel Makkasa, alongside television work.

• Mo Farah 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  British long-distance runner of Somali origin, born in 1983. He won the 5,000 m and 10,000 m gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics and repeated the double at Rio 2016, took six World Championship titles, and is the most successful male track distance runner in global championship history and Britain's most successful Olympic track athlete. He retired in 2023. In 2022 he revealed that he had been trafficked to Britain as a child under another child's name.

• Necip Fazıl Kısakürek 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish poet, novelist and playwright (1904–1983), a leading ideologue of the Islamist current in modern Turkey. He is known for his poetry collection Pavements (Kaldırımlar), for the magazine Büyük Doğu (Great East) he published from 1943, and for his doctrine of 'Islamisation from above'; his writings influenced generations of Turkish Islamists.

• Ruqsana Begum 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  British kickboxer and boxer born in London in 1983 to a family of Bangladeshi origin. She trained in secret for almost five years before telling her family, won the British title in 2010 and a world title in 2016, designed a sports-hijab line for women, and wrote the book Born Fighter. She is also a trained architect.

• Tez Ilyas 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  British stand-up comedian, born in Blackburn in 1983 as Mohammed Tehzeeb Ilyas to a Pakistani Punjabi family. A civil servant before comedy, he is known for his show TEZ Talks, the Channel 4 satire programme The Tez O'Clock Show, his role as Eight in Man Like Mobeen, and his book The Secret Diary of a British Muslim aged 13¾ (2021).

• Tunku Abdul Rahman 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian statesman and a prince of Kedah, born at Alor Setar in 1903. As president of UMNO he led the Alliance to victory in 1955, negotiated Malaya's independence from Britain and proclaimed it in 1957 as the federation's first prime minister, oversaw the formation of Malaysia in 1963, and led the country until 1970; he died at Kuala Lumpur in 1990.

• Wadi Annuar 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian youth-focused preacher, born in Sungai Petani, Kedah, in 1983 and trained in Shariah and Arabic in Damascus. He founded the tahfiz school that became Akademi Darul Ilmi and heads Dakwah Global Sdn. Bhd.; he is known for sermons on the signs of the end times and the lives of the Companions. ISEAS analysis in October 2026 counted 3.4 million TikTok and 1.3 million Instagram followers for him, and his 'Ride Dakwah Anak Muda' gathering in Alor Setar drew some 40,000 young people in September 2026.

• Yaya Touré 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ivorian retired footballer, born in Bouaké, Ivory Coast in 1983. A midfielder who was part of the Barcelona side that won six trophies in 2009, then drove Manchester City to their first league title in 44 years in 2012; African Footballer of the Year four years running (2011–2014); he won 100 caps for Ivory Coast and captained them to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations title. He is the younger brother of Kolo Touré.

• Younis Mahmoud 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iraqi striker, born in 1983 in Dibis, Kirkuk Governorate, who captained Iraq to its only AFC Asian Cup title in 2007, scoring the winning goal in the final and winning the tournament's most valuable player award. He played club football in Iraq, the Emirates and Qatar — longest with Al-Gharafa — and retired in 2016.

• Yusuf Dadoo 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African physician and politician, born in Krugersdorp in 1909 and died in exile in London in 1983. President of the South African Indian Congress (1950–1952), a leader of the 1952 Defiance Campaign, and chairman of the South African Communist Party from 1972 until his death, he was a principal builder of the alliance between the SACP, the ANC and the Indian congresses.

• Zahra Billoo 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  American civil-rights attorney who has been executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area office (CAIR-SFBA) since 2010, having joined it in 2009 after graduating in law. She led the office's six-fold growth, filed suits in its name against the U.S. Department of Justice and major companies on behalf of Muslims facing discrimination, was a plaintiff in Sarsour v. Trump challenging the travel ban, and spoke at the 2017 Women's March.

• Zesh Rehman 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  British defender of Pakistani origin (born 1983 in Birmingham), the first British Asian to play in England's top division and the first to play in all four divisions, who played for Fulham, Queens Park Rangers and clubs in Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia, represented Pakistan internationally, and moved into coaching in Hong Kong and at Portsmouth.

• The Great Tiding: An Annotated Translation of the Thirtieth Part of the Qur'an (Mahmoud Ayoub) 1983 Book Books and publishers

  An annotated English translation of Juz' Amma, with al-Fatiha, by the Lebanese-American professor Mahmoud Ayoub, commissioned and published in 1983 by the Islamic Call Society of Tripoli and self-published again in Iowa in 1997 as The Awesome News; bilingual, with a general introduction, sura introductions and notes, in modern English, it rests on the classical commentaries and sets out their range of opinions without claiming certainty.

• Quran en kreole ek tex arab (Houssein Nahaboo) 1983 Book Books and publishers

  A rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an into Mauritian Creole, the everyday language of Mauritius, by the dentist Houssein Nahaboo, the work of five years, published in instalments from 1983 by the Islamic Students Movement and the Islamic Women's Movement in Port Louis, with the Arabic text in two columns; written in a Creole using French spelling to make it accessible to readers and without notes, it was followed by his English and French translations.