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• Bank Muamalat Malaysia 1999 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Malaysia

  A Malaysian Islamic bank in Kuala Lumpur, which began operating on 1 October 1999 with the assets and liabilities of the Islamic banking windows of three institutions: Bank Bumiputra Malaysia, Bank of Commerce (M) and BBMB Kewangan.

• Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIM) 1999 Product Enterprise, brands and finance

  A stock-market index launched in 1999 for investors seeking Sharia-compliant investments, operated by S&P Dow Jones Indices; an independent Shariah Supervisory Board screens its companies.

• First Security Islami Bank 1999 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Bangladesh

  A Bangladeshi bank in Dhaka, incorporated on 29 August 1999 and operating from 25 October 1999, which has provided sharia-compliant banking since 2009; the chairman of S. Alam Group chaired it, and it faced a liquidity crisis in 2022.

• Fons Vitae 1999 Publisher Books and publishers

  Fons Vitae.

• Islamic Fun (educational game) 1999 Game Websites, apps, games and devices United Kingdom

  A religious educational computer game for children released in 1999 by the UK firm Innovative Minds, made of six minigames built on multiple-choice questions on Islamic themes at three age levels; one of them, 'The Resistance', drew wide controversy in the Western press from 2002, critics seeing incitement in it and its makers calling it a response to occupation.

• Standard Islami Bank 1999 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Bangladesh

  A private commercial bank in Dhaka, founded on 3 June 1999 as the conventional Standard Bank, which switched to Shariah-compliant banking in December 2020 and was renamed Standard Islami Bank in February 2026.

• Al-Albani, Muhammad Nasir al-Din 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  A well-known hadith scholar of Albanian origin and Syrian nationality, distinguished in the authentication and grading of hadiths and in hadith jurisprudence.

• Džanan Musa 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian basketball player (born 1999) from Bihać, drafted 29th overall by the Brooklyn Nets in 2018 after emerging at Cedevita; he won the EuroLeague with Real Madrid in 2023 and the Liga ACB MVP award with Breogán in 2022, joined Dubai Basketball in 2025, and leads the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

• Feryal Abdelaziz 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian karateka, born in Cairo in 1999. At Tokyo 2020 she won the women's +61 kg kumite title, becoming the first Egyptian woman to win an Olympic gold medal; she later added a world team title in 2021 and a Mediterranean Games title in 2022.

• Hakim Abdul Hameed 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Hakim Abdul Hameed (1908–1999) was an Indian physician of the Unani system of medicine, founder and chief trustee of Hamdard Laboratories, founder chancellor of Jamia Hamdard, and chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (1996–1999); he received the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan.

• Hasrat Jaipuri 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian poet and Hindi-film lyricist, born Iqbal Hussain in Jaipur in 1922. He wrote in Hindi and Urdu, won the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist twice (1966 and 1972), and was the lyricist of the Raj Kapoor–Shankar–Jaikishan films until 1971.

• Hassan II of Morocco 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  King of Morocco from 1961 until his death in 1999. Born at Rabat in 1929, the eldest son of Mohammed V, he accompanied his father in exile and took part in the independence negotiations, succeeded him on the throne in 1961, promulgated the kingdom's first constitution in 1962, survived the coup attempts of 1971 and 1972, organized the Green March of 1975, and died at Rabat, succeeded by his son Mohammed VI.

• Hussein bin Talal 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Hussein bin Talal (14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was the third King of Jordan, reigning from 1952 until his death. Born in Amman, the eldest son of Crown Prince Talal, he was enthroned at seventeen after his father's deposition for illness, ruling under a regency until his majority. Under him Jordan fought wars with Israel and lost the West Bank in 1967, expelled Palestinian fighters in Black September 1970, renounced its claim to the West Bank in 1988 and restored elections in 1989; his mediation in the region made his funeral one of the largest gatherings of world leaders of its era.

• Ibrahim al-Musawi al-Zanjani 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ibrahim al-Musawi al-Zanjani, the Iranian ayatollah and scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Kenia Os 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Mexican singer and social-media personality, born in Mazatlán in 1999 as Kenia Guadalupe Flores Osuna. She began as a YouTube content creator with the Jukilop team, then went solo, signed with Lizos Music in 2018 with her debut single 'Por Siempre', and released the albums Cambios de Luna (2022), K23 (2023) and Pink Aura (2024); she has won an MTV Europe Music Award and multiple MTV MIAW Awards and was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award. No source read in this run attests any religion for her.

• Lando Norris 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  British racing driver, born in Bristol in 1999. McLaren's Formula One driver since 2019, he took his first Grand Prix win at Miami in 2024 and won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 2025.

• Mehdi Haeri Yazdi 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, the Iranian philosopher, son of the hawza's founder; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Merve Dinçel 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish taekwondo athlete, born in Ankara in 1999. World champion at 49 kg at Baku 2023, and European and Mediterranean Games champion in 2022. She married the taekwondo practitioner Ferhat Can Kavurat in 2023 and has since competed as Merve Kavurat.

• Mete Gazoz 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish recurve archer, born in Istanbul in 1999. Olympic champion at Tokyo 2020, where he won Turkey's first Olympic medal in archery, he also took team bronze at Paris 2024 and the world title in 2023.

• Motaz Azaiza 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian photojournalist (born 1999) from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, whose Instagram documentation of the Gaza war from October 2023 reached tens of millions; GQ Middle East named him its 2023 Man of the Year, Time listed him among the 100 most influential people of 2024, and he was one of four Palestinian journalists nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Muhammad al-Sadr 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, the Iraqi Twelver marja' assassinated in 1999; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Munir al-Baalbaki 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  From a prominent Beirut family, and one of the best-known Arabic lexicographers of the twentieth century.

• Muslim Al-Waeli 1999 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iraqi Husayni radud (eulogist) and munshid from Dhi Qar governorate, born in 1999 in Suq al-Shuyukh. He began reciting Husayni eulogies as a boy in 2008 in his town's processions, became one of the best-known raduds of his generation in Iraq, performed at the Husayni and Alawiyya shrines and in several countries, and his YouTube channel received the gold creator award in 2021.

• The 13th Warrior 1999 Film Films United States

  John McTiernan's adventure film starring Antonio Banderas as Ahmad ibn Fadlan, the Abbasid envoy thrown in with Viking warriors — adapted from Crichton's novel drawn on Ibn Fadlan's risala.

• East Is East 1999 Film Films United Kingdom

  East Is East.

• The Color of Paradise 1999 Film Films Iran

  Majid Majidi's film about a blind boy in Iran and his ties to father and grandmother; a warm classic of Iranian cinema.

• Lorong Waktu 1999 Series Series and programmes Indonesia

  Indonesia's six-season Ramadan series about a scholar and children who travel through time exploring science and faith — a generational classic of religious television.

• The Translator 1999 Book Books and publishers

  Leila Aboulela's novel of a devout Sudanese widow in Aberdeen — a landmark of English-language Muslim fiction.

• Ibn Baz website (binbaz.org.sa) 1999 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  The site that gathers the scholarly legacy, fatwas and lessons of Shaykh Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz; its earliest archived capture, of November 1999, calls it his only official site, approved by him in writing before his death and supervised by his son Ahmad; today it is a project of the Zad Group owned by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid.

• Prayers of the Last Prophet 1999 Album Music and nasheed

  A spoken-word album by Yusuf Islam, the follow-up to The Life of the Last Prophet, gathering the supplications used by the Prophet in the order of the day and night: prayers for sleep and the night vigil, for dawn, for the day (istikhara, travel, visiting the sick, entering the mosque) and for the evening (entering the home, eating, parents and children), ending with blessings on the Prophet; the article dates it 14 September 1999 and Wikidata 2003.

• Us Rah Par 1999 Album Music and nasheed

  The Pakistani pop singer Junaid Jamshed's second solo album, released in 1999 on Sony BMG after Vital Signs paused, continuing his work with the writer Shoaib Mansoor, and a critical and commercial success; The Express Tribune wrote in 2017 that its title song foreshadowed his later turn from pop to naat.

• Ali al-Tantawi 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian jurist, writer and judge (1909–1999) who wrote for al-Risala for twenty years, served twenty-five years as a judge and drafted Syria's personal-status law, then lived thirty-five years in Saudi Arabia, where his 'Ala Ma'idat al-Iftar', 'Nur wa Hidaya' and 'Masa'il wa Mushkilat' were among the longest-running programmes of its radio and television; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam, 1990.

• Ahmed Zewail 1989 Achievements and firstsFigures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian-American chemist, born in Damanhur in 1946, raised in Desouk and educated at Alexandria University. He founded femtochemistry and was known as the 'father of femtochemistry'; he received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, founded the Zewail City of Science and Technology, and died in 2016.

• Mustafa al-Zarqa 1984 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian jurist and legal scholar (1904–1999), born in Aleppo into a scholarly family. He taught civil law and sharia at the universities of Damascus and Jordan, sat as a deputy for Aleppo and twice held ministerial office; his al-Madkhal al-Fiqhi al-'Amm is a standard modern restatement of Islamic jurisprudence, and he received the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies in 1984. He died in Riyadh.

• Ibn Baz, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  A Saudi scholar born in Riyadh in 1330 AH. He lost his sight during his early studies.

• 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.