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• Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB) 2002 Standards body Enterprise, brands and finance Malaysia

  An international standard-setting body based in Kuala Lumpur, founded in 2002 by a group of central banks and the Islamic Development Bank, operating from 10 March 2003; it issues prudential and supervisory standards consistent with Shari'ah principles for banking, capital markets and insurance.

• Poetic Pilgrimage 2002 Band Music and nasheed United Kingdom

  A British Islamic hip-hop duo founded in London in 2002 by Muneera Rashida and Sukina Abdul Noor, the subject of Hip Hop Hijabis, a 2015 Al Jazeera documentary about two young women finding their place in hip-hop.

• Al Baraka Group 2002 Conglomerate Enterprise, brands and finance BahrainAlgeriaEgypt

  An international Islamic financial group based in Manama, licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain as an investment firm under Islamic principles, with banking subsidiaries in 13 countries; registered in 2002, it floated in 2006 and was delisted from the Bahrain Bourse in 2024.

• AlMaghrib Institute 2002 School Learning and knowledge United States

  An American non-profit teaching Islamic studies in English, founded by Muhammad AlShareef in Houston, Texas, in 2002, offering intensive two-weekend and one-weekend seminars; most of its instructors are graduates of the Islamic University of Madinah, among them Yasir Qadhi and Omar Suleiman; it faced public scrutiny after 2009 and answered it by condemning extremism.

• Islamic Bank of Thailand 2002 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Thailand

  A Thai state enterprise in Bangkok, established in 2002 under the Islamic Bank of Thailand Act, which operates by Sharia principles and serves customers of every religion; the state controls more than 98% of it.

• White Thread Press 2002 Publisher Books and publishers

  White Thread Press.

• Abd al-Rahman Badawi 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  An Egyptian professor of philosophy and one of the most important historians of Arab philosophy. He helped establish philosophical study in the Arab world.

• Abu Turab al-Zahiri 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abu Turab al-Zahiri, the hadith scholar and writer; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Ahmed Hafnaoui 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tunisian swimmer, born in Métlaoui in 2002. He produced the upset of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by winning the 400 m freestyle gold from lane 8, then won the 800 m and 1500 m golds and the 400 m silver at the Fukuoka 2023 World Championships; he holds the African freestyle records.

• Alperen Şengün 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish basketball player (born 2002 at Giresun), the Houston Rockets centre drafted 16th overall in 2021 and a Turkish international, named an NBA All-Star for the first time in 2025.

• Ansu Fati 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Spanish professional footballer (born 2002 in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, and raised in Seville). A left winger who broke through at Barcelona in 2019 as one of the club's youngest-ever debutants and scorers, was loaned to Brighton and Monaco before joining Monaco permanently in 2026, and won the 2023 UEFA Nations League with Spain.

• Ibrahim Al-Arrayedh 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bahraini poet and writer, one of the leading figures of Bahrain's modern literature and the head of its literary movement through the twentieth century. Born in Bombay in 1908 to a father from Manama and an Iraqi mother, he taught in Bahrain from 1927, then worked in customs and for the Bahrain Petroleum Company until his retirement in 1967, translated poetry between Arabic, Persian, Urdu and English, chaired the Constitutional Council that drafted Bahrain's first constitution in the early 1970s, and died in 2002.

• Kaifi Azmi 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian Urdu poet, film lyricist and screenwriter (1919–2002), born Athar Husain Rizvi at Mijwan village in Azamgarh district, who joined the Communist Party of India in 1943, became a leading figure of the Progressive Writers' Movement, and carried Urdu poetry into Hindi cinema, writing the whole dialogue of Heer Raanjha (1970) in verse.

• Manizha Talash 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan breakdancer, born in Kabul in 2002, known competitively as B-Girl Talash. Described as Afghanistan's first female breakdancer, she fled to Pakistan after the Taliban takeover in 2021 and settled in Spain. She competed for the Refugee Olympic Team at Paris 2024, where she was disqualified under Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter for displaying a cape reading 'Free Afghan Women'.

• Muhammad Hamidullah 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Hamidullah, the Indian polymath who translated al-Bukhari into French and wrote on the Prophet's diplomacy; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi 2002 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ruler of Sharjah and member of the UAE Federal Supreme Council since 25 January 1972 (born 1939); historian, author and playwright, the UAE's first Minister of Education (1971), founder and president of the American University of Sharjah and the University of Sharjah, author of more than eighty books of history, literature and drama; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (2002).

• Abouna 2002 Film Films FranceNetherlandsChad

  Abouna.

• Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet 2002 Documentary Films United States

  A UPF documentary broadcast on PBS that interweaves the Prophet's biography with the lives of contemporary American Muslims.

• Muhammad: The Last Prophet 2002 Animation Films United States

  An American animated feature about the Prophet's mission and the rise of Islam in Mecca, produced by Badr International; the Prophet is neither shown nor heard.

• Rachida 2002 Film Films Algeria

  Rachida.

• Saqr Quraish 2002 Series Series and programmes

  An Arabic series on Abd al-Rahman al-Dakhil — 'the falcon of Quraysh' — and his escape from the Abbasid massacre to found Umayyad rule in al-Andalus.

• The Clay Bird 2002 Film Films BangladeshFrancePakistan

  The Clay Bird.

• Archnet 2002 Digital library Websites, apps, games and devices

  An open digital project on Islamic architecture and the built environment of Muslim societies, conceived in 1998 by Aga Khan IV, the president of MIT and the dean of its School of Architecture and Planning, officially launched on 27 September 2002, maintained since 2011 by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, and open without logins since January 2014.

• Dil Ki Baat (Junaid Jamshed album) 2002 Album Music and nasheed

  The Pakistani singer Junaid Jamshed's last pop album before he left the genre for religious reasons and turned to naat, released on Sony BMG with thirteen songs; the article dates it 2002 and Wikidata 2001.

• Taysir al-Karim al-Mannan fi Sirat Uthman ibn Affan 2002 Book Books and publishers

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Uthman ibn Affan, volume three of his History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished at dawn on Wednesday 8 Rabi' II 1423 / 18 June 2002, in seven chapters: his life between Mecca and Medina; his accession, method of government and qualities; the financial and judicial institutions; the conquests and the uniting of the community on one codex; the governors; the causes of the strife; and his killing and the Companions' positions on it.

• Snow 2002 Book Books and publishers

  Orhan Pamuk's novel of a poet exiled to Kars, caught between Islamists, secularists and the 'headscarf girls'.

• Alija Izetbegović 1993 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian politician, philosopher and author, born in 1925. He founded the Party of Democratic Action, led Bosnia and Herzegovina as president through the Bosnian War (1990-1996) and signed the Dayton Agreement. His books include Islam Between East and West and the Islamic Declaration. He died at Sarajevo in 2003.

• Ahmad Domocao Alonto 1988 Figures of the last fifty years

  Filipino Muslim lawyer, educator and politician from Lanao (1914–2002), congressman (1953) and senator (1955–1961), founder of the Mindanao Islamic University (1954) and author of the laws creating Mindanao State University and the Commission on National Integration; an advocate of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians and of autonomy for Muslim Mindanao; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (1988).