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• Khidmatulquran Islamic Foundation 2004 Organisation Organisations

  A Tanzanian non-profit foundation, chaired by Sheikh Ally Mohammed Saleh, which has organised Qur'an tajweed competitions in Tanzania since 2004 — from a competition its organisers established at Masjid Idrisa, to an East Africa tajweed competition from 2008 and international tilawat and tajweed competitions hosting world-renowned reciters — alongside Qur'an teaching and publishing. Its YouTube channel (@khidmatulquran), created in 2013, records its competitions and counted about 153,000 subscribers by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026.

• Al Rayan Bank UK 2004 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Kingdom

  A British commercial bank in London, established in August 2004 as the Islamic Bank of Britain to offer Sharia-compliant products to customers of any faith; it became part of Qatar's Masraf Al Rayan group in 2014.

• Bank Albilad 2004 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Saudi Arabia

  A Saudi Islamic joint-stock bank based in Riyadh, established in 2004, offering Sharia-compliant products under a Sharia Committee; its remittance arm is Enjaz, and it was 16th on Forbes Middle East's 30 Most Valuable Banks 2025.

• Boubyan Bank 2004 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United KingdomKuwait

  A listed Kuwaiti Islamic bank, established by Amiri Decree No. 88 of 21 September 2004 after the Islamic Banks Law of 2003, the first Islamic bank created under it; the National Bank of Kuwait has been its largest shareholder since 2009, and it acquired the Bank of London and the Middle East in 2020.

• Emirates Islamic 2004 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Arab Emirates

  An Emirati bank in Dubai, established in 2004 to provide banking in line with Shari'a principles, one of the emirate's four Islamic banks; it was delisted from the Dubai Financial Market in 2025 after Emirates NBD acquired its remaining shares, and Euromoney named it the world's best Islamic digital bank for 2025.

• Islam Channel 2004 News site Media

  Islam Channel.

• Rick's Café Casablanca 2004 Restaurant Enterprise, brands and finance

  A Casablanca café built in the image of the film Casablanca (2004); film nostalgia made real for visitors.

• 'Abd al-Qadir al-Arna'ut 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  A modern hadith scholar, editor of Ibn al-Athir's Jami' al-Usul, first published in 1389 AH/1969 CE, which he kept correcting and revising until his death on Friday 13 Shawwal 1425 AH (26 November 2004), when he was buried in the al-Haqla cemetery in the upper Midan quarter; his assistants completed the book's second edition after him.

• Abd al-Rahman Siwar al-Dhahab 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sudanese field marshal and statesman (1934–2018), defence minister and commander-in-chief, who took power during the uprising of 6 April 1985 as head of the Transitional Military Council and handed it to an elected civilian government in 1986, then chaired the board of the Islamic Call Organization; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (2004).

• Ahmad Kaftaru 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Grand Mufti of Syria from 1964 until his death in 2004, and sheikh of the Naqshbandi Sufi order in Syria. Born in Damascus to a family of Kurdish origin, he received a classical religious education and rose through the ifta administration from mosque teacher in Quneitra to Mufti of Damascus and then Grand Mufti, founding schools, charities and the devotional community that bore his name (the Kaftariyya). He was known for advocating interreligious dialogue and held Syria's highest official fatwa office for forty years.

• Dullah Omar 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African lawyer and politician from Cape Town who defended anti-apartheid activists, became democratic South Africa's first minister of justice in 1994 and oversaw the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, then served as minister of transport from 1999 until his death in 2004.

• Kâni Karaca 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish hafiz, reciter and mevlid singer (1930–2004), blind from childhood, regarded as the last representative of the Istanbul tradition of recitation; he performed the Qur'an, the mevlid, kaside, gazel and the adhan, was a fixture of the Mevlana commemorations, and recorded the Qur'an, the mevlid and collections of tekbir, durak and naat.

• Syed Mir Qasim 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syed Mir Qasim was a Kashmiri politician who helped draft the Jammu and Kashmir constitution, founded the Congress party in the state, and served as its chief minister from 1971 to 1975, resigning to make way for Sheikh Abdullah's return.

• Vilayat Inayat Khan 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sufi teacher (1916–2004), born in London and died two days before his 88th birthday. A son of Inayat Khan and his successor as head of his order, he taught meditation and the traditions of the Chishti order, founded The Abode of the Message in the United States in 1975, and wrote Sufi books including Awakening: A Sufi Experience and In Search of the Hidden Treasure.

• Vilayat Khan 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian sitar maestro (1928–2004) of the Imdadkhani (Etawah) gharana, born at Gouripur in Bengal, son and heir of Enayat Khan and grandson of Imdad Khan; famed for the gayaki ang, a singing style on the sitar, he composed for Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar (1958) and repeatedly refused India's Padma honours.

• Yasser Arafat 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Yasser Arafat (August 1929 – 11 November 2004), known by his kunya Abu Ammar, was a Palestinian political leader born in Cairo to Palestinian parents and trained there as a civil engineer. He co-founded and led Fatah, chaired the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 until his death, and led the Palestinians from armed struggle to peace negotiations, signing the Oslo Accords, sharing the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, and becoming the first President of the Palestinian National Authority. Confined by the Israeli army in his Ramallah compound for over two years, he died in a French military hospital and was temporarily buried at the Mukataa in Ramallah.

• Black Friday 2004 Film Films India

  Black Friday.

• The Lizard 2004 Film Films Iran

  The Lizard.

• The Great Journey 2004 Film Films FranceMorocco

  Ismaël Ferroukhi's film about a Moroccan father who makes his French son drive him from France to Mecca for the hajj — the classic fictional hajj road movie.

• Turtles Can Fly 2004 Film Films FranceIraqIran

  Turtles Can Fly.

• The Palestinian Exile 2004 Series Series and programmes Syria

  Hatem Ali's landmark series following a Palestinian family through the Nakba from village to refugee camp — the canonical drama of Palestinian memory.

• Submission 2004 Short film Films Netherlands

  Theo van Gogh and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's short film criticising the treatment of women under Islam; van Gogh was assassinated months after its broadcast.

• Moolaadé 2004 Film Films Burkina FasoCameroonFrance

  Moolaadé.

• Head-On 2004 Film Films GermanyTürkiye

  Head-On.

• Veer-Zaara 2004 Film Films India

  Veer-Zaara.

• Yasmin 2004 Film Films United Kingdom

  Yasmin.

• The Sabils in the Islamic Architecture of Mecca and Medina 2004 Book Books and publishers

  A historical and archaeological study by Muhammad Hamza Isma'il al-Haddad (Cairo, 2004) of the water sabils of Mecca, Medina and the pilgrim roads, in two chapters: a history of the siqayas and sabils period by period, and an archaeological study of their types.

• Egypt (Youssou N'Dour album) 2004 Album Music and nasheed

  The Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's album with the Egyptian Fathy Salama Orchestra, released by Nonesuch on 8 June 2004 as Egypt and in Senegal as Sant Allah (Thanks to God); its Wolof songs praise the Sufi masters of Senegal such as Amadou Bamba, it won the Grammy for Best Contemporary World Music Album, and it was boycotted in Senegal and banned in Egypt.

• Kuran s prijevodom (Esad Duraković) 2004 Book Books and publishers

  A Bosnian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Bosnian Arabist Esad Duraković, completed in 2002 and published with the Arabic text in one volume by Svjetlost in Sarajevo in 2004; it sets out to convey the Qur'an's rhetoric, including iltifat, rendering the Meccan suras in rhymed verse and the Medinan mostly in prose, with short notes generally in line with mainstream Sunni views; it drew attention in scholarly circles, and other translators criticised its inconsistency of terms.

• The Qur'an: A New Translation (Abdel Haleem) 2004 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem, professor of Islamic studies at SOAS, University of London, published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and then in Oxford World's Classics; the publisher describes it as plain modern English free of archaisms, identifying the dialogue addressed to the Prophet, adding paragraphing and punctuation and setting verse numbers in small superscript, with an introduction on the revelation, compilation, style and questions of interpretation, notes explaining allusions, and a thematic index.

• 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.