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• Mirchi Music Awards 2009 Prize Awards and competitions India

  Annual awards given by India's Radio Mirchi since 2009 to Hindi film music, each ceremony honouring the previous year's music; among its categories is the song representing the Sufi tradition, won by A. R. Rahman's qawwali 'Kun Faya Kun' at the 4th ceremony on 21 March 2012.

• Madani Channel 2009 Organisation Organisations

  Madani Channel is the television station of the Pakistani movement Dawat-e-Islami and its YouTube channel (@madanichannelofficial); the television channel has operated since 2008, launched in Urdu before English, Arabic and Bengali services, and its YouTube channel counted about 3.63 million subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026.

• Nejashi TV 2009 Organisation Organisations

  An Ethiopian Islamic television platform that describes itself as a coalition of three media outlets — Bilal TV, Jeilu TV and Merkeb Media — broadcasting on Ethiosat to Ethiopia and beyond with news, dawah, lectures and entertainment; its YouTube channel (@nejashitva) counted about 526 thousand subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026.

• Rodja TV 2009 Organisation Organisations

  An Indonesian dawah television channel launched in 2009 from the Radio Rodja network in Cileungsi, Bogor, and run by the Cahaya Sunnah foundation; the network began as a community radio station in 2005 and on 756 AM in 2007, and Rodja TV broadcasts online and by satellite. Its name abbreviates Radio Dakwah Ahlussunnah wal Jamaah, 'the dawah radio of the People of the Sunna and the Community'.

• Yufid.TV — Yufid Network 2009 Organisation Organisations

  An Indonesian dawah media network based in the Yogyakarta region, formed in 2009 and run by the Yufid Network foundation (legally registered in 2014); it operates the Yufid.TV, Yufid EDU and Yufid Kids channels and consultation platforms, and scholars describe it as Indonesia's widest-reaching Salafi dawah platform.

• Ahlulbayt TV 2009 News site Media

  Ahlulbayt TV.

• Banque Zitouna 2009 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Tunisia

  The first Islamic bank in Tunisia and the Maghreb, with capital of US$30 million, set up to develop Islamic financing and savings products for businesses and individuals, headquartered in Tunis.

• Cambridge Muslim College 2009 University Learning and knowledge

  A British college founded by Timothy Winter (Abdal Hakim Murad) in 2009; teaches Islamic sciences alongside modern scholarship.

• HalalBooking 2009 Travel Enterprise, brands and finance

  HalalBooking.

• Islam360 2009 App Websites, apps, games and devices Pakistan

  A Karachi app for searching the Qur'an and hadith by word, verse and subject, with recitations, translations, tafsir, prayer times and the qibla, in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Romanised Urdu; it began as a desktop program, 'Search Quran', made by Zahid Hussain Chhipa in 2009, then became a free app funded by advertising and donors, published on Google Play by the Islam360 Foundation Trust.

• Salaam Somali Bank 2009 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Somalia

  A fully fledged Islamic bank in Mogadishu, established in October 2009 as the first bank to operate in Somalia since 1991, which brought mobile banking and the first cash machines to the country; it received The Banker's international Islamic Bank of the Year award in 2024.

• Zaytuna College 2009 University Learning and knowledge

  Zaytuna College.

• Abdurrahman Wahid 2009 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian Muslim scholar and statesman, born in Jombang, East Java, in 1940, the son of Wahid Hasyim and grandson of Hasyim Asy'ari, founder of Nahdlatul Ulama. He chaired Nahdlatul Ulama from 1984 to 1999, founded the National Awakening Party (PKB), and served as Indonesia's fourth president from 1999 to 2001, the first elected after the fall of Suharto. He was known for defending pluralism and the rights of minorities, and for a personal Sufi devotional life centred on pilgrimage to the tombs of Java's saints.

• Farid al-Ansari 2009 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Farid al-Ansari, the Moroccan scholar and preacher; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Habib Tanvir 2009 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian playwright, theatre director, poet and actor (1923–2009), born Habib Ahmed Khan at Raipur, who founded the Naya Theatre company at Bhopal in 1959 and became known for his work with Chhattisgarhi folk performers and his play Charandas Chor (1975).

• Hamza Shakkur 2009 Figures of the last fifty years

  Damascene munshid (1944–2009) called 'the shaykh of munshids', singer of the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus and president of Syria's league of munshids from 1974, who founded Ensemble Al-Kindi with Jalal al-Din Weiss in 1983 and toured Damascene Sufi song and Mevlevi performance from India to the United States; he was also a Syrian bodybuilding champion.

• Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan Safdar 2009 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Sarfaraz Khan Safdar, the Pakistani Deobandi scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu 2009 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish politician, founder and leader of the Great Unity Party (BBP) and a member of the Turkish parliament, known for a nationalist and Islamist discourse. He died in a helicopter crash in 2009 whose circumstances remained disputed and investigated.

• Ajami 2009 Film Films GermanyIsrael

  Joint Israeli-Palestinian film about Jaffa's Ajami neighbourhood — Muslims, Christians and Jews caught in violence; Oscar-nominated.

• Amreeka 2009 Film Films United States

  Film about a Palestinian mother and son who emigrate to America and face post-9/11 prejudice; screened at international festivals.

• When Love Glorifies God 2009 Film Films Indonesia

  The Indonesian adaptation of Habiburrahman El-Shirazy's novel about an al-Azhar student balancing study, love and livelihood in Cairo — a major Indonesian religious hit.

• Science and Islam 2009 Documentary series Series and programmes United Kingdom

  Jim Al-Khalili's three-part BBC series on science in Islamic civilisation — from the House of Wisdom to the present.

• Perempuan Berkalung Sorban 2009 Film Films Indonesia

  Perempuan Berkalung Sorban.

• City of Life 2009 Film Films United Arab Emirates

  City of Life.

• New Muslim Cool 2009 Documentary Films United States

  A PBS POV documentary on Hamza Pérez, a Puerto Rican-American Muslim rapper, and his family and community life in post-9/11 Pittsburgh.

• A Prophet 2009 Film Films France

  Jacques Audiard's Cannes Grand Prix winner about a young French-Arab Muslim who rises through the prison underworld.

• London River 2009 Film Films AlgeriaFranceUnited Kingdom

  London River.

• The Stoning of Soraya M. 2009 Film Films IranUnited States

  A film dramatising the true account of Soraya Manutchehri, falsely accused of adultery and stoned in an Iranian village — from Freidoune Sahebjam's book.

• Journey to Mecca 2009 Documentary Films MoroccoSaudi ArabiaUnited States

  An IMAX docudrama dramatising Ibn Battuta's first pilgrimage in 1325, filmed alongside real modern hajj footage inside the Haram.

• Saladin: The Animated Series 2009 Animation Films Malaysia

  MNC Animation's Malaysian series dramatising Saladin's youth for children, aired on Al Jazeera Children's Channel — among the first animated works on a major Islamic figure.

• Cairo Time 2009 Film Films CanadaEgyptIreland

  A quiet romantic film about a Canadian journalist in Cairo escorted by an Egyptian guide; a warm portrait of the city.

• The Forty Rules of Love 2009 Book Books and publishers

  Elif Shafak's global bestseller on Shams of Tabriz and Rumi, with a modern parallel story — the most popular Sufi novel of the century.

• Quranic Arabic Corpus 2009 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An online linguistic resource that tags each of the Qur'an's 77,430 words for morphology and syntax within the framework of traditional Arabic i'rab, showing the grammar as dependency graphs, with a morphological lexicon, a concordance by lemma and a word-by-word translation drawn from accepted English translations; led by Kais Dukes at the University of Leeds under Eric Atwell, it was first released in November 2009 at corpus.quran.com.

• Thank You Allah 2009 Album Music and nasheed

  Maher Zain's debut studio album, released by Awakening Records in November 2009 with thirteen songs and two bonus tracks, mainly in English with versions in Arabic, French, Turkish, Urdu, Malay and Indonesian; it was certified multi-platinum in Malaysia and Indonesia, and songs such as 'Insha Allah' and 'Ya Nabi Salam Alayka' spread worldwide online.

• Without You (Sami Yusuf album) 2009 Album Music and nasheed

  An album that Awakening Records issued as Sami Yusuf's third on 17 January 2009, with eleven songs; Sami Yusuf said it came out without his knowledge or consent, called it a compilation of demos and urged fans to boycott it, while the label said it was a complete album and that he was signed to it for five albums; the dispute ended with the contract voided.

• The Latvian translation of the Qur'an (Uldis Bērziņš) 2007 Book Books and publishers

  A literary rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an into Latvian by the Latvian poet, translator and orientalist Uldis Bērziņš with the scholar of Persian philosophy Jānis Ešots, first published in Riga by Zvaigzne ABC and in a revised second edition by Neputns in 2011; it seeks to convey the Qur'an's style and imitate its Arabic syntax, is counted the first complete Latvian translation to be published, and is still cited by scholars in Latvia.

• 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.