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• Standards and Metrology Institute for Islamic Countries (SMIIC) 2010 Standards body Enterprise, brands and finance Türkiye

  An intergovernmental body based in Istanbul, affiliated to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, working on standardisation, metrology and the removal of technical barriers to trade among 37 member states and two observers; its statute entered into force in May 2010.

• Muslim Pro 2010 App Websites, apps, games and devices

  A prayer-times, adhan, qibla and Qur'an app published by Bitsmedia in Singapore, released on iOS in 2010 and on Android in 2011; it was acquired in 2017 by a Malaysian and a Singaporean investment firm, added the streaming service Qalbox in 2022, and the company says its downloads passed 190 million by Ramadan 2026. A Motherboard investigation of November 2020 found it sending location data to a broker that sold data to US military contractors, after which it said it would stop.

• Quran Majeed (Pakdata app) 2010 App Websites, apps, games and devices

  A Qur'an reading and listening app by Pakdata of Karachi, with recitations by more than thirty reciters, translations and tafsir in more than fifty languages, prayer times, the adhan, the qibla and memorisation tools, on iOS, Android, Huawei and macOS; its site says it has been in use since 2010, and its Google Play page shows 10M+ downloads.

• Saffron Road 2010 Food product Enterprise, brands and finance United States

  An American halal food brand of American Halal Company, founded by Adnan Durrani in Stamford, Connecticut, in 2009; its halal-certified products launched through Whole Foods in July 2010.

• Molana Abdul Haq Baloch 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Molana Abdul Haq Baloch, the Baloch Pakistani scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Ali Safi Golpaygani 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ali Safi Golpaygani, the Iranian Shia mujtahid; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Fatima Meer 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African writer, sociologist and anti-apartheid activist, born in Durban in 1928. She was a founding member of the Federation of South African Women, a lecturer in sociology at the University of Natal, founder of the Institute for Black Research, and author of Higher than Hope, the first authorised biography of Nelson Mandela.

• Israr Ahmed 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani Islamic scholar and orator, born in Hisar in 1932 and died in Lahore in 2010. A physician trained in Lahore and Karachi, he left Jamaat-e-Islami over its turn to electoral politics and founded Anjuman Khuddam-ul-Quran (1972) and Tanzeem-e-Islami (1975), preaching a Qur'an-centred revival and the restoration of the caliphate. He received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1981.

• Khawaja Khan Muhammad 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

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

• Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi Faqih, the Qom marja' and pupil of al-Kalbaykani; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian scholar, Grand Mufti of Egypt (1986–1996) and then Grand Imam of al-Azhar from 1996 until his death in 2010. He wrote a seven-thousand-page exegesis of the Qur'an, and a number of his fatwas drew wide controversy.

• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish politician, president of Turkey since 2014, previously prime minister from 2003 to 2014 and mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998. He co-founded the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001 and led it to repeated election victories; his rule is associated with Turkey's move to a presidential system and with wide debate over the course of democracy and freedoms in his country.

• Tawhida Ben Cheikh 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tunisian physician (1909–2010), the first Tunisian girl to take the baccalauréat, in 1928, and the first woman physician of Tunisia and the Maghreb. She graduated from the Paris faculty of medicine in 1936 and opened a practice in Tunis, headed the maternity services of the Charles-Nicolle and Aziza Othmana hospitals, founded the family-planning service in 1963 and directed the national family and population office in 1970; she was active in the Muslim Union of Tunisian Women and founded societies for social aid, orphans and mothers. In 2020 the Central Bank of Tunisia put her portrait on the ten-dinar banknote.

• Umaru Musa Yar'Adua 2010 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian politician (1951–2010) from Katsina who studied chemistry at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, worked as a teacher and lecturer and then in business, governed Katsina State for the Peoples Democratic Party (1999–2007) — the state adopted sharia under him in 2000 — and became president of Nigeria on 29 May 2007. He died in office in Abuja on 5 May 2010, received an Islamic burial in Katsina, and was succeeded by his vice-president Goodluck Jonathan.

• 678 2010 Film Films Egypt

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• The Infidel 2010 Film Films United Kingdom

  The Infidel.

• Four Lions 2010 Film Films United Kingdom

  Chris Morris's black comedy about an incompetent British jihadist cell — debated at release for mocking the terrorists rather than Muslims.

• Incendies 2010 Film Films CanadaFrance

  Denis Villeneuve's Oscar-nominated film about Canadian twins returning to their mother's Middle Eastern homeland, uncovering a civil war fought between Muslims and Christians.

• Son of Babylon 2010 Film Films FranceUnited KingdomIraq

  Mohamed Al-Daradji's Iraqi film about a grandmother and grandson searching for a missing man after Saddam's fall; among Iraq's best-known films.

• My Name Is Khan 2010 Film Films IndiaUnited States

  Karan Johar's film starring Shah Rukh Khan as a Muslim man with Asperger's who crosses America to tell the president 'my name is Khan and I am not a terrorist' after 9/11.

• Outside the Law 2010 Film Films BelgiumAlgeriaFrance

  Outside the Law.

• The Kingdom of Solomon 2010 Film Films Iran

  Shahriar Bahrani's Iranian film on the prophet Solomon's kingdom as told in Islamic sources; Solomon appears on screen per Iranian convention.

• Sang Pencerah 2010 Film Films Indonesia

  Hanung Bramantyo's film on Ahmad Dahlan, founder of Muhammadiyah, and the early years of Indonesia's Islamic reform movement in Yogyakarta.

• My First Al-Qur'an (MyFA, Syaamil) 2010 Book Books and publishers

  An Indonesian children's Qur'an launched by the Syaamil Group of Bandung in 2010, in two parts: the Arabic mushaf in two volumes, and the 2004 edition of the Ministry of Religious Affairs translation, verbatim, in two volumes with the sira, stories of the prophets, a map of the Prophet's da'wa journeys, 'Now I Know' notes and a trilingual dictionary, printed on coloured paper with a durable cover; it was among the group's most successful products in 2010–2012 and was sold with an e-pen.

• SeekersGuidance (seekersguidance.org) 2010 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An online Islamic educational institute founded by the Pakistani-Canadian scholar Faraz Rabbani, offering courses, a question-and-answer service and occasional retreats; known for a time as SeekersHub Global, it returned to its name in 2019; its site's earliest archived capture is of May 2010.

• Wherever You Are (Sami Yusuf album) 2010 Album Music and nasheed

  Sami Yusuf's third official studio album, released on 29 October 2010 by ETM International after his split with Awakening, with fifteen songs in Arabic, English, Turkish and Persian recorded in Britain, Egypt, South Africa and the UAE; it carries new versions of songs issued without his consent on Without You, among them 'You Came To Me' in four languages.

• Bishwa Ijtema 2001 Gathering Conferences and conventions

  The annual gathering held by the Bangladeshi branch of the Tablighi Jamaat on the bank of the Turag at Tongi, north of Dhaka, since 1967: three days of prayer and talks closing with the final supplication (Akheri Munajat); attendance was estimated at 2 million in 2001 and 4 million in 2023, and it has been held in two phases since 2010 because of the crowds.