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• Awakening Music (Awakening Records) 2000 Record label Music and nasheed

  An England-based record label and music production company founded in 2000 by four entrepreneurs from England and the United States, with offices in London, Cairo and California; it launched the careers of Sami Yusuf, Maher Zain, Mesut Kurtis and Harris J, released Al-Mu'allim (2003), My Ummah (2005), Thank You Allah (2009) and Forgive Me (2012), and passed to a majority stake held by B4U in 2018.

• Ahmed Ali Assami 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ahmed Ali Assami, the Indian scholar and hadith man; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Begum Akbar Jehan Abdullah 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Kashmiri politician and wife of Sheikh Abdullah, who represented Srinagar and Anantnag in the Lok Sabha (1977–1979 and 1984–1989), was the first president of the Jammu and Kashmir Red Cross Society, and was known as Madr-e-Meharban, 'the kind mother'.

• Armaghan Khan 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  American content creator of Pakistani descent, known as Captain Halal, who became known from 2020 for short comedy videos about the Muslim experience in which he plays multiple characters, and later expanded his YouTube channel into gaming, reactions and religious questions in an entertainment format.

• Habib Bourguiba 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Habib Bourguiba (1903–2000) was the Tunisian politician who led the independence movement against France, became prime minister of the kingdom in 1956, then proclaimed the republic on 25 July 1957 and served as Tunisia's first president for thirty years, enacting the Code of Personal Status and building a one-party state, until his prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali removed him in 1987; he lived under house arrest at Monastir until his death.

• Hafez al-Assad 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian officer and politician from Qardaha (1930–2000), president of Syria from 1971 until his death. He rose through the air force and the Ba'ath Party, led the 'Corrective Movement' of November 1970, and ruled Syria for three decades until his death at Damascus in 2000, when his son Bashar succeeded him.

• Hania El Hammamy 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian professional squash player, born in Cairo in 2000. World junior champion in 2019 and the first player born in the 21st century to win a PSA tour title, she reached the world No. 1 ranking in 2025.

• Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi, the Pakistani scholar of the fatwas; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Nazia Hassan 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani singer and songwriter (1965–2000), the 'Queen of South Asian Pop'. She shot to fame at fifteen with 'Aap Jaisa Koi' in the Indian film Qurbani (1980), and with her brother Zoheb, as the duo Nazia and Zoheb, sold over 65 million records worldwide; she died of lung cancer in London aged 35 and received the Pride of Performance posthumously in 2002.

• Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (1915–2000) of the Suhrawardy family of Calcutta, a niece of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy; the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London (on the development of the Urdu novel and short story). She represented Pakistan at the United Nations and worked on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco (1964–1967). Her best-known book is From Purdah to Parliament (1963); she also wrote the 1991 biography of her uncle Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.

• Umi Laila 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Young Indonesian preacher and religious singer, born in Surabaya on 8 August 2000, the eldest daughter of the East Java kiai Edy Rahmatullah, known as 'Kyai Granat'. She became known for cheerful dakwah interwoven with sholawat singing on social media, graduated in Islamic communication and broadcasting from UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya in 2023, and manages her father's Pondok Pesantren Rahmatullah; her accounts are followed by millions.

• Zaira Wasim 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian former actress (born 2000) at Srinagar who rose to fame as the young Geeta Phogat in Dangal (2016), winning a National Film Award, starred in Secret Superstar (2017), and in 2019 publicly left acting, stating in her own words that it conflicted with her religion and faith.

• Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan 2000 Figures of the last fifty years

  Founding President of the United Arab Emirates (1971–2004) and ruler of Abu Dhabi (1966–2004). Governor of the Eastern Region (Al Ain) from 1946, he succeeded his brother Shakhbut as ruler of Abu Dhabi on 6 August 1966 and led the creation of the federation on 2 December 1971, remaining its president until his death at Abu Dhabi on 2 November 2004; he is buried in the courtyard of the new Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.

• The Circle 2000 Film Films SwitzerlandIranItaly

  The Circle.

• Islam: Empire of Faith 2000 Documentary series Series and programmes United States

  A three-part PBS/Gardner Films documentary surveying Islamic history from the Prophet's mission to the Ottoman empire — one of the most-broadcast documentaries on Islamic civilisation in the West.

• Rules of Engagement 2000 Film Films GermanyUnited KingdomUnited States

  Rules of Engagement.

• The Day I Became a Woman 2000 Film Films Iran

  Marzieh Meshkini's Iranian film: three stories of Iranian women at three ages; among the best-known Iranian films on women.

• A Is for Allah 2000 Album Music and nasheed

  A double album for Muslim children made by Yusuf Islam and released on 11 July 2000 on his own Mountain of Light imprint, teaching the twenty-eight letters of the Arabic alphabet one by one; he wrote its title song in 1980 at the birth of his first child, Hasanah, the South African singer Zain Bhikha sings on most tracks, and it came with an illustrated alphabet book.

• al-Sira al-Nabawiyya: Ard Waqa'i' wa-Tahlil Ahdath 2000 Book Books and publishers

  A long contemporary biography of the Prophet by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi (preface dated 1421/2000), covering events from the state of the world before the mission to the Prophet's death in seventeen and more chapters, each event closing with a section of 'lessons, morals and benefits', drawing on classical sources and on modern studies such as al-Raheeq al-Makhtum and Fiqh al-Sira; Dar al-Ma'rifa 7th edition 2008, 934 pages.

• Askimam 2000 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An English-language fatwa website founded by the South African mufti Ebrahim Desai in 2000 as ask-imam.com and moved to askimam.org in 2004, answering questions of fiqh by the Hanafi school in the Deobandi tradition, each answer checked by its founder; the scholar Gary Bunt called it more comprehensive, influential and wide-ranging than al-Azhar's web resources put together.

• Dust to Gold (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan album) 2000 Album Music and nasheed

  A qawwali album by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, recorded in 1997 with his ensemble in traditional form and released posthumously by Real World in 2000, with four long pieces, among them 'Khawaja tum hi ho' and 'Noor-e-khuda hai husn-e-sarapa rasool'; critics heard a balance of improvisational freedom and control, though his voice showed strain.

• IslamHouse (islamhouse.com) 2000 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A charitable multilingual da'wa website of the Da'wa and Community Awareness Society in the al-Rabwah district of Riyadh, which says its aim is to convey Islam to people in all living languages and to offer a free reference introducing it, with encyclopedias of translated Qur'anic meanings, hadith and Islamic terms; its earliest archived capture is of December 2000.

• WhyIslam (whyislam.org) 2000 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An American website for introducing Islam, whose earliest archived capture, of 20 May 2000, opens with an English rendering of the meaning of Surat al-Fatiha.

• 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.

• Aziz Mian 1989 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani qawwal (1942–2000) called the emperor of qawwali, one of the few who wrote their own lyrics; he began at the shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh in Lahore, sang so often for the army that he was dubbed the 'military qawwal', holds the record for the longest commercially released qawwali (about 115 minutes), received the Pride of Performance in 1989 and died on a concert tour of Iran.