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• Islamic Center of America, Dearborn 2005 Mosque Built since 1976

  The largest mosque in the United States according to the catalogue, built in 2005 at Dearborn, Michigan, to designs by Paul Bertin and David Donnellon, with golden domes, Moorish arches and two minarets.

• Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam (BIBD) 2005 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Brunei

  The largest bank in Brunei and its main Islamic financial institution, formed in 2005 by merging the Islamic Bank of Brunei and the Islamic Development Bank of Brunei, headquartered in Bandar Seri Begawan; the state, through the Brunei Investment Agency, holds most of it.

• Huda TV 2005 News site Media

  Huda TV.

• Quraish (video game) 2005 Game Websites, apps, games and devices

  A 3D real-time strategy game by the Damascus studio Afkar Media, published by Dar al-Fikr and released on 2 August 2005 by the English Wikipedia (the Arabic gives 2007), about the pre-Islamic Arab tribal wars, the Ridda wars and the Rashidun Caliphate's campaigns against the Byzantines and the Sasanians.

• Ali Abdullah Jaber 2005 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi reciter and scholar (1953–2005), official imam of Masjid al-Haram from 1981 to 1983 and Ramadan guest imam from 1986 to 1989, lecturer in comparative fiqh at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, known as the King's Imam and famed for his melodic recitation.

• Arda Güler 2005 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish professional footballer (born 2005 in Altındağ, Ankara). An attacking midfielder who broke through at Fenerbahçe, winning the Turkish Cup in 2023, then joined Real Madrid and won La Liga and the Champions League in his first season; at Euro 2024 he became the first teenager to score on his European Championship debut since Cristiano Ronaldo.

• Youssou N'Dour 2005 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese singer, songwriter and politician, born at Dakar on 1 October 1959. He helped develop mbalax, reached a worldwide audience with '7 Seconds' (1994), a duet with Neneh Cherry, and the devotional album Egypt (2004), which won a Grammy Award, founded the Groupe Futurs Médias press group, and served as Senegal's Minister of Culture and Tourism (2012–2013) after a disqualified presidential candidacy.

• Paradise Now 2005 Film Films GermanyFranceNetherlands

  Hany Abu-Assad's Oscar-nominated film about two Palestinian friends in Nablus recruited for a mission inside Israel — a debated moral drama.

• Al-Zahir Baybars 2005 Series Series and programmes United Arab EmiratesSyria

  A Syrian-Emirati series on Sultan al-Zahir Baybars — from the Mamluk ranks to the defeat of the Mongols at Ain Jalut; among the largest Arabic productions on the Mamluk era.

• Bab'Aziz 2005 Film Films Tunisia

  Nacer Khemir's Tunisian film about a Sufi dervish crossing the desert to a gathering; the best-known Arab Sufi film, dedicated to depicting Islam's spirit.

• Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West 2005 Documentary Films United States

  Raphael Shore's US documentary framing political Islam as an existential threat to the West; mass-distributed free and widely criticised for conflating jihadism with Islam.

• When the Moors Ruled in Europe 2005 Documentary Films United Kingdom

  Bettany Hughes's Channel 4 documentary on the Islamic civilisation of al-Andalus and its influence on Europe.

• Khawatir 2005 Programme Series and programmes Saudi Arabia

  Ahmad al-Shugairi's MBC Ramadan programme across eleven seasons, blending faith with social service and travel — the Arab world's most successful youth religious programme.

• Sleeper Cell 2005 Series Series and programmes United States

  American series about a Muslim FBI agent infiltrating a terror cell in Los Angeles; among the first dramas with a Muslim hero against extremism.

• Kingdom of Heaven 2005 Film Films GermanySpainUnited Kingdom

  Ridley Scott's epic about Balian of Ibelin and the defence of Jerusalem in 1187; Saladin is a major, dignified character and the film's portrayal of the Crusades has been widely discussed.

• Muluk al-Tawa'if 2005 Series Series and programmes Syria

  Hatem Ali's Syrian series on the taifa kings of al-Andalus after Cordoba's fall — al-Mu'tamid, Ibn Zaydun and Wallada — and the cities' struggle against the Almoravids.

• al-Maktaba al-Shamela (the Comprehensive Library) 2005 Digital library Websites, apps, games and devices

  A free computer program and website for browsing and searching Islamic and classical Arabic books, first released on 1 April 2005, holding some eight thousand books turned into searchable, copyable text, with links from the text to scans of the books; sponsored from 1433 AH by the cooperative da'wa office of al-Rawda in Riyadh, it came to the web and phones and then, in 1447 AH, to macOS and Linux.

• Jalwa-e-Janan 2005 Album Music and nasheed

  The first religious and spiritual album of the former Pakistani pop singer Junaid Jamshed, recorded in 2005 at QTV and released by Heera Stereo, with naats and supplications in Urdu and Pashto to poetry by Iqbal, Aziz al-Hasan Ghouri and Taqi Usmani; its best-known naat is 'Muhammad Ka Roza Qareeb Aaraha Hai'.

• Khwaja Mere Khwaja 2005 Song Music and nasheed

  A Sufi song A. R. Rahman composed in 2005 for Mu'in al-Din Chishti, after fifteen years of visits to his shrine at Ajmer, and sang himself to lyrics by Kashif; the director Ashutosh Gowariker chose it for the 2008 film Jodhaa Akbar, for a scene in which Akbar sees a spiritual light as he watches the singers and dancers.

• Minaret 2005 Book Books and publishers

  Aboulela's novel of a Sudanese diplomat's daughter turned London servant who finds Islam seriously in exile.

• My Ummah 2005 Album Music and nasheed

  Sami Yusuf's second studio album, released by Awakening on 6 July 2005 in a music version and a percussion version, sung in English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Urdu; its best-known songs include 'Hasbi Rabbi' and 'Mother', it marked his turn to Western instrumentation, and its sales are reported at between five and eight million copies.

• al-Maktaba al-Waqfiya (waqfeya.com) 2005 Digital library Websites, apps, games and devices

  An online digital library of scanned books of the Shari'a sciences, which scans them and makes them available for download, with manuscripts, theses, Islamic texts and scanned books; it says it holds nearly ten million pages, most as PDF; its site's earliest archived capture is of December 2005.

• 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.

• Ahmed Deedat 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African preacher of Indian origin, born in 1918 and died in 2005; famous for his public debates on comparative religion with evangelical Christians, founder of the Islamic Propagation Centre International (IPCI), and winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam in 1986.

• Abida Parveen 1984 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani singer and composer from Sindh (born 1954), called the queen of Sufi music, who sings kafi, ghazal and qawwali in Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Arabic and Persian to the verse of Bulleh Shah, Shah Abdul Latif and Amir Khusrau; she broke through on Radio Pakistan in 1973 and received Pakistan's highest civil award, the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, in 2021.

• Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 1984 Figures of the last fifty years

  Fifth King of Saudi Arabia (r. 1982–2005) and the eldest of the Sudairi Seven, the sons of King Abdulaziz by Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi. He was Minister of Education (1953–1962), Interior Minister (1962–1975) and Crown Prince (1975–1982); as king he adopted the title Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in 1986 and introduced the Basic Law of Governance in 1992. After his stroke in 1995 Crown Prince Abdullah governed in practice until Fahd's death at Riyadh on 1 August 2005.