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• Africa TV (Africa TV3) 2012 Organisation Organisations

  A Nigerian Hausa-language Islamic YouTube channel (@AfricaTV3) carrying religious lectures and Ramadan drama series; it counted about 257 thousand subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026, and the channel was created in 2012.

• Hazret Sultan Mosque — official channel 2012 Organisation Organisations

  The official YouTube channel (@aziretsultanmosque) of the Hazret Sultan Mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan's national mosque, inaugurated on 6 July 2012. The channel was created on 13 June 2012, as the mosque was being completed, and publishes Qur'an and tajwid lessons, tafsir series, fiqh talks and sermons — among them a lecture series by the mosque's imam Erbolat Zhusipov — and counted about 406 thousand subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026, a dated platform figure. The mosque houses the Hikmet television and radio studio and the Muslim.kz editorial office, the in-house media operation behind its broadcasts.

• Minhaj TV 2012 Organisation Organisations

  Minhaj TV is the YouTube channel (@minhajtvofficial) of Minhaj-ul-Quran International (MQI), the organisation founded by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri in 1980 in Lahore, Pakistan; the channel counted about 146 thousand subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026, and its most-viewed videos are devotional songs and recitations from International Milad Conferences.

• Careem 2012 Platform Websites, apps, games and devices

  Careem.

• Ahmed Ben Bella 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ahmed Ben Bella (1916–2012) was an Algerian politician and revolutionary, a leader of the National Liberation Front in the war of independence. He was the first head of government of independent Algeria (1962–1963) and then its first president (1963–1965), until Houari Boumédiène's coup overthrew him; he spent long years detained and exiled before returning to Algeria.

• Bingu wa Mutharika 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malawian economist and politician (1934–2012) who served in the civil services of Malawi and Zambia, at the World Bank and at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, was handpicked by Bakili Muluzi as his successor and won the 2004 election, founded the Democratic Progressive Party, was noted for the fertiliser-subsidy programme that delivered food security, chaired the African Union in 2010, then saw a troubled second term of 2011 protests and economic decline, and died in office on 5 April 2012.

• Chadli Bendjedid 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Chadli Bendjedid (1929–2012) was an Algerian officer and politician, a combatant of the war of independence and a member of the Revolutionary Council. He became secretary general of the FLN and then third president of the republic (1979–1992), resigned in January 1992 on the eve of the civil war, and remained under house arrest until 1999.

• Hassan Turkmani 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian military officer and politician who served as minister of defence from 2004 to 2009 after a term as army chief of staff, then became assistant vice president and head of the crisis operations cell. He was killed in the bombing of the national security building in Damascus on 18 July 2012.

• Humayun Ahmed 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist and filmmaker (1948–2012), among the most popular Bengali-language writers of the twentieth century. Born in Netrokona, he took a PhD in polymer chemistry and taught chemistry at the University of Dhaka. His breakthrough was his debut novel Nondito Noroke in 1972; he wrote over 200 books that topped the Ekushey Book Fair sales, directed eight films from his own novels, and received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1981 and the Ekushey Padak in 1994.

• Iajuddin Ahmed 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi soil scientist and statesman (1 February 1931 – 10 December 2012), a professor and department chairman at the University of Dhaka who served as president of Bangladesh from 2002 to 2009 and, controversially, held the chief advisership of the caretaker government in 2006–07 as well, until the military-backed state of emergency of 11 January 2007 forced him to resign the second post while remaining president until 2009.

• Mehdi Hassan 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani ghazal and playback singer (1927–2012), born at Luna in Rajasthan into a family of hereditary Kalawant musicians and known as Shahenshah-e-Ghazal, 'Emperor of Ghazal'; he migrated to Pakistan in 1947, sang for more than 300 films and received the Pride of Performance (1985), the Nishan-e-Imtiaz (2006) and the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (2010).

• Muhammad Hadi Assegaf 2012 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian singer of shalawat and religious songs who began performing as a six-year-old in 2018 and became known for shalawat songs such as 'Innal Habibal Musthofa' and 'Syaikhona', released by the RPM label and published on his YouTube channel; in his milieu he is presented as a grandson of Habib Syech bin Abdul Qodir Assegaf.

• The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2012 Film Films PakistanUnited States

  Mira Nair's adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel — a Princeton-educated Pakistani questioned about his path from Wall Street to Lahore after 9/11.

• Islam: The Untold Story 2012 Documentary series Series and programmes United Kingdom

  Islam: The Untold Story.

• Innocence of Muslims 2012 Short film Films United States

  A US short film produced by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula insulting the Prophet; its trailer ignited protests and attacks across several countries in 2012 and became a legal and diplomatic incident. Indexed as a document of anti-Islam polemics, not endorsed.

• Halima's Path 2012 Film Films Bosnia & HerzegovinaCroatiaSlovenia

  Halima's Path.

• Fetih 1453 2012 Film Films Türkiye

  Fetih 1453.

• The Patience Stone 2012 Film Films AfghanistanGermanyFrance

  The Patience Stone.

• Çanakkale 1915 2012 Film Films Türkiye

  Çanakkale 1915.

• Horses of God 2012 Film Films BelgiumFranceMorocco

  Horses of God.

• Citizen Khan 2012 Series Series and programmes United Kingdom

  Adil Ray's BBC sitcom about a British-Pakistani Muslim family man in Birmingham — the BBC's first Muslim-led sitcom, and an early flashpoint over stereotypes.

• Shahid 2012 Film Films India

  Shahid.

• Shehr-e-Zaat 2012 Series Series and programmes Pakistan

  A Pakistani drama about an elite young woman whose unrequited love becomes a search for God — a landmark spiritual drama.

• The Porridge Vendor Goes on Hajj 2012 Series Series and programmes Indonesia

  A long-running Indonesian series about a poor porridge vendor saving for the hajj — the country's longest-running religious drama and a Ramadan staple.

• Omar 2012 Series Series and programmes QatarSaudi Arabia

  A historical series produced by MBC Group and Qatar TV, directed by Hatem Ali and written by Walid Saif, following Umar ibn al-Khattab from his youth in Mecca to his assassination as caliph, in 31 episodes broadcast in Ramadan 1433 from 20 July 2012; the Prophet is not shown, but the four rightly guided caliphs are, and scholars divided between those who forbade it and those who approved it.

• Wadjda 2012 Film Films GermanySaudi Arabia

  Haifaa al-Mansour's film — the first feature directed by a woman inside Saudi Arabia — about a girl in Riyadh who wants a bicycle; a quiet study of gender and public space.

• Gangs of Wasseypur 2012 Film Films India

  Gangs of Wasseypur.

• Alif the Unseen 2012 Book Books and publishers

  G. Willow Wilson's techno-fantasy of an Arab hacker and an ancient jinn manuscript — code, Sufism and the Arab Spring.

• Forgive Me 2012 Album Music and nasheed

  Maher Zain's second studio album, released by Awakening on 1 April 2012 with fourteen songs and bonus tracks in Arabic, Turkish and Malay, including 'Freedom', 'Number One For Me' and 'So Soon', a song about orphans; it was certified multi-platinum in Malaysia and sold more than 100,000 copies.

• Salaam (Sami Yusuf album) 2012 Album Music and nasheed

  Sami Yusuf's fifth studio album, released by ETM International on 22 December 2012 with sixteen tracks; he described it as celebrating 'outward multiplicity and inward unity' and peace between people, it went platinum in South-East Asia, and a Turkish edition carried five songs he re-recorded in Turkish.

• The Bamboo Stalk 2012 Book Books and publishers

  Saud Alsanousi's IPAF winner about a half-Kuwaiti, half-Filipino youth negotiating faith, class and belonging.

• Kun Faya Kun (Rockstar, 2011) 2011 Song Music and nasheed

  A qawwali composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2011 Hindi film Rockstar and dedicated to the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, sung by Rahman with Javed Ali, Mohit Chauhan and the Nizami Bandhu to lyrics by Irshad Kamil; written for the scene in which the hero takes refuge at the Nizamuddin Dargah in Delhi among the qawwals, it won a Mirchi Music Award as a song representing the Sufi tradition.

• Roger Garaudy 1986 Figures of the last fifty years

  French philosopher, born in Marseille in 1913, who became a Protestant as a boy, then a leading thinker and parliamentarian of the French Communist Party; he broke with Marxism and was expelled from the Party in 1970, called for a dialogue of civilisations, declared his Islam in Geneva in 1982 and died in 2012, as Tareq al-Suwaidan recounts.

• 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.