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• MOBO Awards 1996 Prize Awards and competitions United Kingdom

  Annual British awards for 'music of Black origin', from hip-hop, R&B and soul to reggae, jazz and gospel, founded by Kanya King and Andy Ruffell in 1996; the Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour won its Best African Act award in 2005.

• Mecca2Medina 1996 Band Music and nasheed United Kingdom

  A British Islamic hip-hop and nasheed group founded in London in 1996 by Rakin Fetuga, with three nasheed albums and two hip-hop albums; its members ran workshops for young people and prisoners and, as The Salam Project, organised talks with scholars and comedy nights. Its source states that all its members but one, who was born Muslim, converted to Islam.

• Raihan 1996 Band Music and nasheed Malaysia

  A Malaysian nasheed group founded in 1996, known for its debut album Puji-Pujian on Warner Music Malaysia, which its sources call Malaysia's best-selling album, certified twelve times platinum; it recorded with Yusuf Islam and performed at the 1997 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Edinburgh and at the Royal Albert Hall.

• Bank Asya 1996 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Türkiye

  A former Turkish participation bank in Istanbul that operated from 1996 to 2016 and is widely considered tied to the Gülen movement; the banking regulator cancelled its licence on 22 July 2016, and it was declared bankrupt on 16 November 2017.

• Goodword Books 1996 Publisher Books and publishers

  An Indian publisher in Delhi founded in 1996 by Saniyasnain Khan as an outgrowth of the Islamic Centre his father, the scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, founded in Delhi in 1976; it concentrates on illustrated children's books on Islamic values, also publishes for adults in history, religion, philosophy, da'wa and Arabic learning, and reissued T. B. Irving's American translation of the Qur'an.

• IslamQA (Islam Question & Answer) 1996 Platform Websites, apps, games and devices

  An online fatwa and question-and-answer website begun by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid in 1996 and run under his general supervision, counted among the first online fatwa services; it answers questions from Muslims and others in sixteen languages on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a, as it describes itself, and was blocked in Saudi Arabia in 2010 after fatwas were reserved to the Council of Senior Scholars.

• Abd al-Rahman al-Sumayt 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Abd al-Rahman al-Sumayt as Tareq al-Suwaidan presents him: the Kuwaiti physician who turned his whole life to serving Islam and development in Africa through Direct Aid society — spending six months in Africa and six in Kuwait — with large figures cited for his projects (needs_source).

• Abdoldjavad Falaturi 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdoldjavad Falaturi, the Iranian founder of Islamic studies in Germany; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Abdul Hamid Kishk 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Blind Egyptian preacher and graduate of al-Azhar's faculty of Usul al-Din (1933–1996), who preached from the pulpit of the 'Ain al-Hayat mosque in Cairo for about twenty years; more than two thousand of his sermons spread on cassette across the Arab world, he was detained in 1965 and again in 1981, and he was called 'the knight of the pulpits'.

• Abdullah Al-Alayli 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdullah al-Alayli, the Lebanese exegete and lexicographer; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Abdus Salam 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani theoretical physicist, born in Jhang, Punjab, in 1926 into a family professing Ahmadiyya. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics for the theory unifying the electromagnetic and weak forces, the first Pakistani to win a Nobel Prize; founded the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste in 1964 and Pakistan's space agency SUPARCO; left his country in protest in 1974 after its parliament declared members of the Ahmadiyya community non-Muslim; and died in Oxford in 1996.

• Adama Traoré 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Spanish professional footballer (born 1996 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat to Malian parents). A right winger who came through Barcelona and played for Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Fulham, winning eight caps for Spain.

• Akram Afif 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Qatari winger born in Doha in 1996 who plays for Al Sadd. He won the Asian Footballer of the Year award twice (2019 and 2023), set a tournament record of 10 assists at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup, finished top scorer of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup with eight goals, and was the first Qatari-born signing in La Liga history.

• Akram Diya' al-Umari 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Dr Akram Diya' al-Umari, a contemporary historian and hadith scholar, author of al-Sira al-Nabawiyya al-Sahiha, in which he sets out to apply the hadith scholars' rules to the criticism of sira reports; he also wrote an article on Musa ibn Uqba, which he mentions in the book.

• Akram Zuaiter 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian politician, diplomat and writer from Nablus (1909–1996), a founding member of the Istiqlal Party. He worked in journalism and education, then served as Jordan's ambassador to several countries and as its foreign minister in 1966, and wrote books and documentary collections on the Palestinian national movement.

• Almoez Ali 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Striker born in Khartoum, Sudan, in 1996 who moved to Qatar as a child; he captains Al-Duhail and is Qatar's all-time top scorer. He scored a record nine goals in a single AFC Asian Cup edition (2019) and was named that tournament's best player, and he is the only footballer to have scored at the Asian Cup, the Copa América and the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

• Aruna Asaf Ali 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian educator, publisher and independence activist (1909–1996), born Aruna Ganguly into a Bengali Brahmin family; she married Asaf Ali in 1928. She is remembered for hoisting the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank Maidan in Bombay in August 1942 as she presided over the remainder of the Quit India session, then worked underground, became Delhi's first mayor in 1958, and received the Bharat Ratna posthumously.

• Babrak Karmal 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan communist politician, born as Sultan Hussein in 1929 at Kamari near Kabul. He co-founded the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and led its Parcham faction; the Soviet intervention installed him as head of state in December 1979 after the assassination of Hafizullah Amin. He held power until his removal in 1986 and exile to Moscow, returned to Afghanistan in 1991 and later left for good, and died in Moscow in December 1996 of liver cancer.

• Diego Elías 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Peruvian squash player, born in Lima in 1996. World champion in 2024 and the first South American player in squash history to reach the world No. 1 ranking (April 2023), he won the British Open in 2025.

• Jaylen Brown 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  American basketball guard (born 1996) from Marietta, Georgia, a Boston Celtics star since his third-overall selection in 2016 and the 2024 NBA champion and Finals MVP; reporting documents his Ramadan fasting and his 2024 Hajj.

• Khursheed Ahmad 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani naat reciter (1956–2007) who sang thousands of naats in Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, Pashto and Sindhi, won PTV's first naat competition in 1978, became famous for 'Zameen-o-Zaman Tumhare Liye' and 'Yeh Sab Tumhara Karam Hai Aaqa', received the Pride of Performance in 1996 and was the first Pakistani naat khawan to recite around the world.

• Mohammad Najibullah 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan politician and military officer, born in 1947 at Gardez in Paktia and trained in medicine at Kabul University. He headed the KHAD intelligence service, became general secretary of the PDPA in 1986 and president of Afghanistan (1987–1992), pursuing National Reconciliation. After his government's fall he sheltered in the UN compound in Kabul until the Taliban killed him on their capture of the capital on 27 September 1996.

• Muhammad Bahjah al-Athari 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Bahjah al-Athari, the Iraqi man of letters and scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Sofyan Amrabat 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Moroccan professional footballer (born 1996 in Huizen, Netherlands). A defensive midfielder who came through Utrecht and played for Feyenoord, Club Brugge, Hellas Verona, Fiorentina, Manchester United and Fenerbahçe before joining Ajax in 2026; a Morocco international who played at three World Cups and won the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with his country.

• Toprak Razgatlıoğlu 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish motorcycle racer, born in Alanya in 1996. He won three Superbike World Championship titles — 2021 with Yamaha and 2024 and 2025 with BMW — as the first Turkish champion in the class, and moved to MotoGP with Prima Pramac Yamaha for 2026.

• Yusuf Dhannun 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Yusuf Dhannun, the Iraqi calligrapher and writer; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Intoxicated Spirit 1996 Album Music and nasheed

  A live album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party, released in 1996 on Shanachie and recorded in Pakistan with voices, tabla and harmonium, which he supported with a North American tour; it was nominated for the Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album, and critics heard in it qawwali without the Western trappings.

• Night Song (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album) 1996 Album Music and nasheed

  A joint album of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook, recorded at Real World Studios in 1995 and released on 20 February 1996, his last album on the label in his lifetime; it joins qawwali vocals to Brook's ambient production and Senegalese musicians, reached number 4 on Billboard's world albums chart and was nominated for the 1997 Grammy for Best World Music Album.

• Muhammad al-Ghazali 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 1987 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani qawwal, singer and composer (1948–1997) of the Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana of Delhi, who led his family's party from 1971 and carried qawwali to world audiences through Real World and Peter Gabriel, performed in over forty countries, received the Pride of Performance (1987) and the UNESCO Music Prize (1995), and recorded more than 125 qawwali albums by Guinness's count.