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• Fez Festival of World Sacred Music 1994 Gathering Conferences and conventions

  Fez's annual festival convening Sufi chant, qawwali and nasheed alongside the sacred music of other faiths; since 1994.

• Abu al-Wafa al-Ghunaymi al-Taftazani 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Born in Kafr al-Ghunaymi in the Sharqiyya governorate of Egypt. He studied Islamic philosophy and Sufism.

• Aisha Abd al-Rahman (Bint al-Shati) 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian writer and professor of Arabic literature (1913–1998) who wrote as 'Bint al-Shati', professor at Ain Shams University, author of 'al-Tafsir al-Bayani lil-Qur'an al-Karim' (1966–1969), biographies of the women of the Prophet's household and more than forty books; State Award 1987, King Faisal Prize for Arabic Literature 1994.

• Asisat Oshoala 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian professional footballer, born in Ikorodu, Lagos, in 1994. A striker for Saudi club Al Hilal and the Nigeria national team, she has won African Women's Footballer of the Year a record six times, was the first African to score in a UEFA Women's Champions League final (2019) and the first African woman to win the competition (2021) with Barcelona, and founded a foundation supporting young women footballers in Africa.

• Babar Azam 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani international cricketer and former captain of the Pakistan national team in all three formats, born in Lahore in 1994 to a family of the Walled City. A right-handed top-order batter known for classical technique and timing, he debuted internationally in 2015, was in the Pakistan team that won the 2017 Champions Trophy, scored three consecutive ODI centuries in 2016, captained Pakistan in Tests, ODIs and T20Is and led them to the 2022 T20 World Cup final, won the ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2021 and 2022, and captains Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League.

• Emre Can 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  German professional footballer (born 1994 in Frankfurt). A defensive midfielder who came through Bayern Munich and played for Bayer Leverkusen, Liverpool and Juventus before joining Borussia Dortmund in 2020 and becoming their captain in 2023; he won the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup with Germany.

• Giana Farouk 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian karateka, born in 1994. A two-time world champion in the women's kumite 61 kg event (2014 and 2016), she won bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and gold medals at the African Games, the Islamic Solidarity Games and the Mediterranean Games.

• Hafizh Syahrin 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian motorcycle racer, born in Selangor in 1994. After Moto2 podiums with Petronas Raceline, he became the first Southeast Asian to race in the MotoGP category, with Tech3 in 2018–2019, and later competed in the Superbike World Championship.

• Hakan Çalhanoğlu 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Professional footballer (born 1994 in Mannheim, Germany) who plays as a midfielder for Inter Milan and captains Turkey. A free-kick specialist, he rose at Karlsruher SC and Hamburger SV, played for Bayer Leverkusen and AC Milan, and crossed to city rivals Inter in 2021, winning Serie A and the Coppa Italia; he has won more than a hundred caps for Turkey.

• Hussein bin Abdullah 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Hussein bin Abdullah (born 28 June 1994) is Crown Prince of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan since 2 July 2009, the eldest son of King Abdullah II and Queen Rania. Born in Amman, he graduated from Georgetown University in 2016 and from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2017, and serves as an officer in the Jordanian Armed Forces. In 2015 he became the youngest person to chair a session of the UN Security Council, and he heads the Crown Prince Foundation and its technology, education and volunteer initiatives.

• al-Abyari, Ibrahim Isma'il 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian editor and author, born in Tanta, who edited works of adab and the classical heritage.

• Ibrahim Zarrin-Qalam 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ibrahim Zarrin-Qalam, the Iranian master calligrapher and diplomat; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Iñaki Williams 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Professional footballer (born 1994 in Bilbao to Ghanaian parents). A forward who has spent his entire senior career at Athletic Bilbao, winning the 2023–24 Copa del Rey, he played once for Spain in 2016 before representing Ghana internationally from 2022.

• Jusuf Nurkić 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian basketball player (born 1994), the Utah Jazz centre drafted 16th overall in 2014 after starting in Slovenia and Croatia; he previously played for Denver, Portland, Phoenix and Charlotte and represents Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Khamzat Chimaev 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Russian-Emirati mixed martial artist and freestyle wrestler of Chechen origin (born 1994 in Gvardeyskoye, Chechnya). A three-time Swedish national freestyle wrestling champion who emigrated to Sweden as a teenager, he won the UFC middleweight championship in August 2025 and lost it in his first defence in May 2026; he is the first Chechen-born fighter to win a UFC title and the first athlete representing the United Arab Emirates to win one.

• Mohammad Ali Araki 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Mohammad Ali Araki, the Iranian marja' of Qom; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Shaykh Muhammad ibn Salih al-Uthaymin, a Saudi scholar, wrote the Sharh Riyad al-salihin as part of his series of works; the cover of volume five names him as author. The Foundation that bears his name has its address in Unayzah.

• Omar Khribin 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian forward born in Damascus in 1994. He was the first Syrian to win the Asian Footballer of the Year award (2017), won the 2019 AFC Champions League with Al-Hilal, and has won 70 caps for Syria, scoring 31 goals. He plays for Al-Wahda of Abu Dhabi.

• Ons Jabeur 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tunisian professional tennis player, born in Ksar Hellal in 1994. She reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 2 in June 2022, the highest ranking achieved by any African or Arab player in WTA or ATP history, and contested three major singles finals (Wimbledon in 2022 and 2023, the US Open in 2022) as the first African and Arab woman to reach a major singles final. She has won five WTA singles titles, including the 2022 Madrid Open, a WTA 1000 event. Known in Tunisia as the 'Minister of Happiness', she announced an indefinite break from tennis in July 2025 and her first pregnancy in November 2025.

• Samira Asghari 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan basketball player and sports administrator, born in Jalrez in 1994. A former captain of the Afghanistan women's national basketball team, she became in 2018 the first Afghan member of the International Olympic Committee and one of its youngest members ever.

• Sayyid Sabiq 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian jurist of al-Azhar (1915–2000), author of Fiqh al-Sunna, which set out the rulings of law from their evidence without binding itself to one school and spread widely among general readers; he worked at the Ministry of Awqaf and then at Umm al-Qura University in Mecca, and received the King Faisal Prize for Islamic Studies in 1994.

• Sébastien Haller 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ivorian footballer, born in Ris-Orangis, France in 1994. A striker who played for Utrecht, Eintracht Frankfurt, West Ham United and Ajax — winning the Eredivisie with Ajax — then Borussia Dortmund; diagnosed with a malignant testicular tumour in 2022, he returned to play after treatment, and scored Ivory Coast's winning goal in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations final. He represented France at youth level before switching to Ivory Coast in 2020.

• SM Sultan 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bengali painter (1923–1994), full name Sheikh Mohammed Sultan. Born at Machimdia, Narail, to a poor mason's family, he drew in charcoal the buildings his father worked on, studied art in Calcutta for three years without completing the course, travelled and exhibited in India, the United States and England, then settled in Narail from 1953. He is famous for canvases of exaggeratedly muscular Bengali peasants as a symbol of the working person's strength, and received the Ekushey Padak in 1982 and the Independence Day Award in 1993.

• Yusuf al-Qaradawi 1994 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian scholar who lived in Qatar, founder and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars. He became known worldwide for his Al Jazeera programme 'Sharia and Life' and for the IslamOnline website, and wrote more than 120 books.

• The Emigrant 1994 Film Films EgyptFrance

  Youssef Chahine's retelling of the Joseph story set in ancient Egypt; its release sparked a legal battle in Egypt over depicting Qur'anic prophets on screen.

• Mammo 1994 Film Films India

  Mammo.

• al-Islam fi Khandaq 1994 Book Books and publishers

  A book by Mostafa Mahmoud (Kitab al-Yawm, 1994) that describes Islam as in a 'trench', besieged by terrorism on one side, struck by secularism on another and threatened by Western ambitions; it holds that religion is at heart 'the old love', commands and prohibitions being its details, and ends with a reading of Qur'anic promises of a coming victory that he calls 'a historical reading' he hopes is right.

• Granada (trilogy) 1994 Book Books and publishers

  Radwa Ashour's trilogy on a family in post-conquest Granada — the Moriscos and a forbidden culture; the finest Arabic fiction on al-Andalus's end.