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• Faisal Mosque 1986 Mosque Built since 1976

  Islamabad's desert-tent-shaped mosque (1986) by Vedat Dalokay — the world's fourth-largest mosque.

• Darussalam Publishers 1986 Publisher Books and publishers

  An international Islamic publishing and distribution house founded in 1986 by the Mecca-based Pakistani scholar Abdul Malik Mujahid, which grew from a single shop in Saudi Arabia to 35 countries and prints mainly in Sheikhupura, Pakistan; it has published over 1,500 books, translations and interpretations of the Qur'an in 29 languages and the six hadith collections in English in 38 volumes, and by 2020 was the second-largest publisher of translations of Islamic scripture after the King Fahd Complex.

• Abdul Hai Arifi 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdul Hai Arifi, the Pakistani Deobandi scholar and spiritual master; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Achmad Zaky 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Achmad Zaky (born Achmad Zaky Syaifudin on 24 August 1986 in Sragen, Central Java) is an Indonesian internet entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of the e-commerce marketplace Bukalapak in 2010 and its chief executive until January 2020; a National Science Olympiad winner in computer science while at high school in Solo, he studied informatics engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology, received the Satyalancana Wira Karya award in 2016, and after leaving Bukalapak co-founded the early-stage venture fund Init6.

• Ahmad Saeed Kazmi 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ahmad Saeed Kazmi, the Pakistani scholar and Sufi; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Ahmed Deedat 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African preacher of Indian origin, born in 1918 and died in 2005; famous for his public debates on comparative religion with evangelical Christians, founder of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI), and winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam in 1986.

• al-Hafizi al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Muhammad 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Of the Hafizi family of Rijal Alma in Asir; born 1345 AH (1926 CE) and died 1406 AH (1986 CE).

• Amir Khan 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  British former professional boxer (born 1986 in Bolton, to a Pakistani Punjabi family). He won silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics at seventeen, held the WBA light-welterweight title from 2009 and unified it with the IBF title in 2011, challenged Canelo Álvarez for a middleweight world title in 2016, and retired in 2022 with a record of 34 wins and 6 losses. He founded the Amir Khan Foundation.

• Bawa Muhaiyaddeen 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tamil-speaking teacher and Sufi mystic from Sri Lanka (c. 1900 – 8 December 1986). He emerged in the early 1940s near Kataragama and gathered followings in Jaffna and Colombo, came to the United States in 1971 and founded the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia, authored over twenty-five books from his recorded discourses, and is buried at the Fellowship Farm near Coatesville.

• Cheikh Anta Diop 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese historian, physicist and anthropologist, born at Thieytou in 1923 into a Muslim family of the Mouride brotherhood. Trained in Paris, he argued in his works for the African origin of ancient Egyptian civilisation and founded a radiocarbon dating laboratory at Dakar. He died in 1986.

• Demetrious Johnson 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Retired American mixed martial artist (born 1986 in Madisonville, Kentucky, raised in Washington State). The inaugural UFC flyweight champion, he defended the title a UFC-record 11 consecutive times, then won the ONE Championship flyweight title in 2022 and its trilogy in 2023, retiring in 2024 as ONE's first hall-of-fame inductee. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in the sport's history.

• Edin Džeko 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian professional footballer, born in Sarajevo in 1986, whose childhood was spent under the city's siege. A striker nicknamed the 'Bosnian Diamond', he began at Željezničar, starred for VfL Wolfsburg — winning the Bundesliga in 2009 and its top-scorer title in 2010 — won two Premier League titles with Manchester City, finished as Serie A's top scorer with Roma in 2017, and later played for Inter Milan, Fenerbahçe and Fiorentina before joining Schalke 04. He is the all-time top scorer and most-capped player in the history of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

• Guz Khan 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  British comedian and actor, born in Coventry in 1986 as Ghulam Dastgir Khan to Pakistani Punjabi parents. A humanities teacher before comedy, he went viral in 2015 with his character Mobeen in the 'Pakisaurus' video, then created and starred in the BBC comedy Man Like Mobeen (2017–2025), and has appeared in Taskmaster, Our Flag Means Death and The Gentlemen.

• Iqra Khalid 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani-Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who has represented Mississauga—Erin Mills in Canada's House of Commons since 2015, known in Parliament for her private member's motion M-103 on systemic racism and religious discrimination and for her human-rights committee work.

• May Calamawy 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian-Palestinian actress, born in Bahrain in 1986 to an Egyptian father and a Palestinian-Jordanian mother and raised across Bahrain, Qatar and the United States. She is known for playing Dena Hassan in the Hulu series Ramy (2019–2022) and Layla El-Faouly / Scarlet Scarab in Moon Knight (2022), the first Egyptian and Arab superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; her alopecia areata was written into her Ramy character's storyline.

• Nasr al-Din Tubar 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian reciter and munshid (1920–1986) from al-Manzala in Dakahlia who entered the radio after six failed tests, left some two hundred ibtihalat, recorded in 1978 the joint mujawwad Qur'an for Saudi radio and television with Mahmoud al-Bujayrimi, led the religious-song ensemble of Egypt's Academy of Arts from 1980 and sang at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

• Omar Ali Saifuddien III 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  The 28th Sultan of Brunei (1950–1967), remembered as the Architect of Modern Brunei. Born in Brunei Town in 1914, a younger brother of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin, he succeeded in 1950, gave Brunei its first written constitution in 1959, kept it out of the Malaysian federation in 1963 and regularised its Islamic administration, then abdicated in 1967 in favour of his eldest son Hassanal Bolkiah, remaining his mentor until his death in 1986.

• Omar Khadr 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Canadian captured in Afghanistan in 2002 at the age of fifteen and held at Guantanamo for ten years; he pleaded guilty before a United States military commission in 2010, was repatriated to Canada in 2012, released on bail in 2015, and reached a settlement with the Canadian government in 2017 that included an official apology.

• Omar Suleiman 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  American imam of Palestinian descent, born in New Orleans in 1986. He founded the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research in 2016 and is known for social-justice activism, interfaith work, books and widely viewed lectures.

• Raha Moharrak 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi mountaineer, born in Jeddah in 1986. The youngest Arab and the first Saudi woman to climb Mount Everest (2013), she became the first Saudi woman to complete the Seven Summits in 2017.

• Roger Garaudy 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  French philosopher, born in Marseille in 1913, who became a Protestant as a boy, then a leading thinker and parliamentarian of the French Communist Party; he broke with Marxism and was expelled from the Party in 1970, called for a dialogue of civilisations, declared his Islam in Geneva in 1982 and died in 2012, as Tareq al-Suwaidan recounts.

• Sania Mirza 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian former professional tennis player, born in Mumbai in 1986 and raised in Hyderabad. A former doubles world No. 1 who reached the top ranking in April 2015 and spent 91 weeks there, she won six major titles — three in women's doubles (Wimbledon and the US Open in 2015, the Australian Open in 2016) and three in mixed doubles — the WTA Finals doubles title in 2014 and 2015, and 43 doubles titles in all. In singles she reached world No. 27 in 2007, the highest ranking achieved by an Indian woman, before a wrist injury shifted her career to doubles. She retired from professional tennis in February 2023.

• Usman Khawaja 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  Australian former international cricketer, born in Islamabad, Pakistan, in 1986; his family emigrated to New South Wales when he was four. A left-handed top-order batter, he played 88 Tests and 40 One Day Internationals for Australia between 2011 and 2026, scoring 6,229 Test runs with 16 centuries, and was the first Muslim and the first Pakistani-born cricketer to play Test cricket for Australia. He was Australia's highest scorer in the 2021–2023 World Test Championship with 1,621 runs as Australia won the title, was named ICC Test Cricketer of the Year for 2023, made a celebrated comeback with twin centuries in the January 2022 Sydney Ashes Test and a career-best 232 against Sri Lanka in January 2025, and retired from international cricket in January 2026 after the final Ashes Test in Sydney.

• Muslim Magnum .357 1986 Film Films Philippines

  Muslim Magnum.357.

• Korani Kerim (Mohammed Shemsuddin's Bulgarian translation) 1986 Book Books and publishers

  The first modern Bulgarian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by a Muslim, written clandestinely under communism by Mohammed Shemsuddin (Mehmed Tabakov), a preacher of the Turkish-speaking minority; it circulated in 1986 as a typescript titled 'Awakener of the Muslims' to avoid naming the Qur'an, and in a revised second edition at the end of 1990 as Korani Kerim; it has sura introductions and no commentary, and Yakubovych finds that its main source was Ali Fikri Yavuz's Turkish translation.