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• BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2003 Prize Awards and competitions United Kingdom

  British world-music awards sponsored by BBC Radio 3 from 2003 to 2008, conceived by Ian Anderson, editor of fRoots, with winners chosen by a twelve-member jury; the BBC axed them in March 2009. Youssou N'Dour won the Critics Award in 2005, for the album Egypt.

• Jaiz Bank 2003 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Nigeria

  A Nigerian bank headquartered in Abuja that operates on Islamic, non-interest banking principles, the first non-interest bank in Nigeria; founded in 2003 as Jaiz International, it was licensed as a regional bank on 11 November 2011, opened on 6 January 2012 and received a national licence in 2016.

• Abdul-Majid al-Khoei 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdul-Majid al-Khoei, the Iraqi cleric killed in Najaf in 2003; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abolfazl Mousavi Tabrizi, the ayatollah and Qom teacher; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Edward Said 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian-American literary critic and public intellectual, born in Jerusalem in 1935 into a Protestant Christian family. He taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University for four decades, founded postcolonial studies with Orientalism (1978), and argued the Palestinian case before the world; he died in New York in 2003. He is included as a major Palestinian intellectual of the modern Muslim world — not as a Muslim.

• Idi Amin 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ugandan military officer (1928–2003) who became the third president of Uganda in the coup of 25 January 1971 and ruled until his overthrow on 11 April 1979. His rule was marked by widespread human-rights abuses and economic mismanagement; he expelled Uganda's Asian residents in 1972, and his regime ended with the Uganda–Tanzania War. He was raised in a Muslim family and memorised the Quran as a boy; the sources name no religious school for him. He died in exile at Jeddah in 2003.

• Moktar Ould Daddah 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Mauritanian politician (1924–2003) from a marabout family of Boutilimit, the first Mauritanian to hold a university degree (law, Paris), who served as the country's first prime minister (1957–1961) and first president (1960–1978), founding the Islamic Republic of Mauritania at independence, ruling through a one-party state under a programme of 'Islamic socialism', and fighting the Western Sahara war, until a military coup deposed him on 10 July 1978; after imprisonment and exile in France he returned in 2001 and died in Paris on 14 October 2003.

• Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Moulay Hassan bin Mohammed (born 8 May 2003 at the Royal Palace in Rabat) is the Crown Prince of Morocco, the elder child of King Mohammed VI and Princess Lalla Salma; educated at the Royal College and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, where he took a master's degree in 2025, he holds the rank of Colonel-Major in the Royal Armed Forces and has represented his father at official engagements since 2013.

• Munshi Raziuddin 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Qawwal, classical musician and scholar of music (1912–2003) of the Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana of Delhi, who sang at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and then in Karachi after 1948, received the Pride of Performance in 1967, and trained his sons Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad, who succeeded him; a street in Karachi's 'Qawwali Gali' bears his name.

• Shah Ahmad Noorani 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani scholar and politician (1926–2003) of Meerut, the son of Muhammad Abdul Aleem Siddiqi and the leader of the Barelvi movement in Pakistan. He presided over Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, co-founded the World Islamic Mission at Mecca in 1972, and was the founding president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal alliance in 2001, having travelled the world on preaching tours with his father and then alone.

• Zidane Iqbal 2003 Figures of the last fifty years

  Midfielder born in Manchester in 2003 to a Pakistani father and an Iraqi mother. A Manchester United academy product, he became the first British South Asian to play for the club in the Champions League, then moved to Utrecht in the Netherlands and to Dundee United. He represents Iraq at senior level.

• Inside Mecca 2003 Documentary Films United States

  A National Geographic documentary following pilgrims from three continents through the hajj inside Mecca, with background on the Kaaba and the rites.

• At Five in the Afternoon 2003 Film Films FranceIran

  At Five in the Afternoon.

• Rabee' Qurtuba 2003 Series Series and programmes Syria

  Hatem Ali's Syrian series on the Andalusian fitna and the fall of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba in 1009 — a landmark Arabic drama on al-Andalus.

• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas 2003 Animation Films United States

  Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas.

• Osama 2003 Film Films AfghanistanIran

  Siddiq Barmak's film — the first Afghan feature after the Taliban — about a girl disguised as a boy named Osama to feed her family; Golden Globe winner.

• Al-Mu'allim 2003 Album Music and nasheed

  Sami Yusuf's debut album, released by Awakening in 2003 after the label signed him as its first artist; its title, 'The Teacher', refers to the Prophet. The Guardian reported in 2012 that it sold 3 million copies and that, with My Ummah, it led Time magazine to call Sami Yusuf 'Islam's biggest rock star' and set the bar for the young nasheed industry.

• The Kite Runner 2003 Book Books and publishers

  Khaled Hosseini's novel of friendship and guilt in Kabul across the Soviet invasion and Taliban rule — the widest-read Afghan novel.

• Alxuraan: the Wolof translation of Assane Sylla 2003 Book Books and publishers

  A Wolof rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Senegalese thinker Assane Sylla, published by the Libya-based World Islamic Call Society in 2003 in Senegal's official Latin script, with the Arabic text on the facing page in the Hafs reading, without footnotes, and with the sura names translated into Wolof; with an Ahmadiyya translation it is the first modern complete Wolof Qur'an, and it drew on recorded tafsir lessons of Dakar scholars, Ibn Kathir and French translations.

• Asma al-Matalib fi Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin Ali ibn Abi Talib 2003 Book Books and publishers

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Ali ibn Abi Talib, volume four of his History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished at noon on Saturday 17 Rabi' II 1424 / 7 June 2003, it treats Ali in Mecca and under the caliphs before him, his accession and qualities, his financial, judicial and provincial institutions, the battles of the Camel and Siffin and the arbitration, his stance towards the Kharijites and the Shi'a, and his martyrdom.

• Aziz Kur'an (Turkish, from Hamidullah's French translation) 2003 Book Books and publishers

  A Turkish rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an translated from Muhammad Hamidullah's French Le Saint Coran in the 1973 edition he revised himself, by the theologian Abdülaziz Hatip and the translator of French literature Mahmut Kanık, first published by Bayan Yayınları in Istanbul in 2003 and reprinted up to 2022; Johanna Pink observes that, though its translators declare they follow Hamidullah's method, it often abandons his choices for the commonplace Turkish term.

• 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.