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• ÁLI stýdıasy — Ali Studio 2013 Organisation Organisations

  A Kazakh-language Islamic studio channel on YouTube (@ali_stydiasy), opened on 9 February 2013, which describes itself as an Islamic educational channel and 'a platform for spiritual upbringing and useful sermons'. It publishes sermons and lessons recorded from many Kazakh preachers — among them Abdugappar Smanov, Arman Kuanyshbayev and Nursultan Kasimov — and counted about 1.09 million subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 4 November 2026, a dated platform figure. No operating organisation or founder is named in the channel's published materials.

• TALIM KZ 2013 Organisation Organisations

  A Kazakh-language Islamic education channel on YouTube (@talimkz), opened on 13 February 2013, whose name strings together three Kazakh words for learning: tağylym (edification), tanym (knowledge) and tälim (instruction). It publishes sermons, lessons and question-and-answer talks by many Kazakh preachers — among them Abdugappar Smanov, Nursultan Kasimov, Zharkyn Myrzataev and Arystan Ospanov — alongside Umrah and Hajj guidance, and counted about 612 thousand subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026, a dated platform figure. No operating organisation or founder is named in the channel's published materials.

• Alizz Islamic Bank 2013 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Oman

  A full-fledged Islamic bank in Oman, launched on 30 September 2013 after Royal Decree No. 69/2012 brought Islamic banking into the banking law; its paid-up capital is 100 million Omani rials.

• Global Islami Bank 2013 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Bangladesh

  A Bangladeshi sharia-compliant private bank in Dhaka, founded on 25 July 2013 as NRB Global Bank for non-resident Bangladeshis, which became a full Islamic bank under its present name on 3 January 2021.

• LaunchGood 2013 Start-up Enterprise, brands and finance

  A crowdfunding platform based in Detroit focused on the Muslim community worldwide, live since October 2013 and described by the press as Muslim-run; it has raised more than US$688 million from 2.1 million donors in 155 countries.

• Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta 2013 Game Websites, apps, games and devices

  An action-adventure game by the Saudi studio Semaphore, published by its parent Semanoor International, whose first episode came out on 29 May 2013 on PlayStation 3 and iOS and later on PC and Android, in which an Arab treasure hunter and his archaeologist sister follow the trail of the traveller Ibn Battuta; billed as Saudi Arabia's first multiplatform game, it was panned (11 out of 100 on Metacritic), and a sequel, Al Rekaz, was announced in 2018.

• Union Bank (Bangladesh) 2013 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Bangladesh

  A fourth-generation private Islamic bank in Bangladesh, established on 7 March 2013 as a sharia-compliant bank and listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange; central-bank inspections in 2022 and 2024 found a sharp rise in bad loans, and it came under central-bank supervision.

• Abdul Rahim Hatif 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan politician (1926–2013), born at Kandahar into a Pashtun family. He was one of the vice presidents of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in its last years — a vice president from the 1988 elections and first vice president from July 1991 to April 1992 — and then acting President for two weeks, from 16 to 28 April 1992, after President Najibullah's removal and before the mujahideen takeover of Kabul, appealing for a peaceful transfer of power. Put out of power in 1992, he went into exile in the Netherlands, where he died at Alphen aan den Rijn in 2013.

• Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid (22 March 1923 – 21 December 2013) was an Egyptian diplomat from Alexandria who, as a young diplomat, took part in the 1957 delegation that negotiated the resumption of relations with France. He was Egypt's ambassador to France and then its foreign minister (1984–1991), and the fifth Secretary-General of the Arab League (1991–2001), succeeding Chedli Klibi and succeeded by Amr Moussa.

• Ahmed el-Tayeb 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian scholar and professor of Islamic doctrine and philosophy, Grand Imam of al-Azhar since 19 March 2010. Before that he was president of al-Azhar University (2003–2010) and Grand Mufti of Egypt (2002–2003).

• Amina Cachalia 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African anti-apartheid activist, women's rights campaigner and politician, born in Vereeniging in 1930. A leader of the Federation of South African Women, she spent fifteen years under house arrest, was elected to the National Assembly in the first democratic election of 1994, and was a longtime friend and ally of Nelson Mandela.

• Asghar Ali Engineer 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian reformist writer and social activist, leader of the Progressive Dawoodi Bohra movement and internationally known for his work on liberation theology in Islam; he founded the Institute of Islamic Studies (1980) and the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (1993), wrote more than fifty books, and received the Right Livelihood Award in 2004.

• Jalal al-Din Taheri 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Jalal al-Din Taheri, the Iranian ayatollah and imam of Isfahan; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian Sunni scholar of Kurdish origin, among the most widely read Muslim authors of his age. Born in 1929 in the village of Jilka near Cizre and raised in Damascus, he became dean of the Faculty of Sharia at Damascus University and preacher of the Umayyad Mosque, and wrote more than sixty books in fiqh, usul, sira and creed in defence of the Shafi'i school and the Ash'ari method. He was assassinated while teaching at the al-Iman Mosque in Damascus in March 2013.

• Reshma 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani folk singer (c. 1947–2013) born in Rajasthan, whose family moved to Karachi after Partition; discovered as a child singing at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, she became one of the most popular folk voices in Pakistan and India with songs such as Laal Meri and Lambi Judai, and received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz (2008) and the Pride of Performance (1982).

• Riazuddin 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani theoretical physicist, born in Ludhiana in 1930 and died in Islamabad in 2013. A pupil of Abdus Salam, he took his Cambridge PhD in 1959 and co-authored the KSRF relation in particle physics. He directed the Theoretical Physics Group of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (1974–1984) and is counted among the early pioneers of Pakistan's nuclear weapons and deterrence programmes. He was the twin brother of the physicist Fayyazuddin.

• Yousef Madani Tabrizi 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Yousef Madani Tabrizi, the Iranian ayatollah; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Zakir Naik 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian preacher and physician, born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1965. He founded and presides over the Islamic Research Foundation and founded the Peace TV satellite network in 2006, becoming known for English-language lectures and debates in comparative religion — more than 4,000 lectures, according to the sources. Since 2016 he has lived in Malaysia as a permanent resident; the Indian authorities accuse him of hate speech and money laundering, charges he denies.

• Zubair Ali Zai 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Zubair Ali Zai, the Pakistani hadith scholar and editor of the Sunan collections; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• The Square 2013 Documentary Films EgyptUnited States

  The Square.

• The Muslims Are Coming! 2013 Documentary Films United States

  The Muslims Are Coming!.

• The Physician 2013 Film Films Germany

  Based on Noah Gordon's novel: an English youth travels to 11th-century Isfahan to study medicine under Ibn Sina.

• The Ottomans: Europe's Muslim Emperors 2013 Documentary series Series and programmes United Kingdom

  Rageh Omaar's three-part BBC documentary on the Ottoman empire and its relationship with Europe.

• The Trials of Muhammad Ali 2013 Documentary Films United States

  The Trials of Muhammad Ali.

• 99 Lights in the European Sky 2013 Film Films Indonesia

  An Indonesian film following a Muslim couple in Vienna who trace the Islamic heritage of Europe while facing Islamophobia — a major Indonesian box-office success.

• Omar 2013 Film Films Palestinian Territories

  Hany Abu-Assad's Palestinian film about a young man scaling the separation wall and drawn into the conflict; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film.

• Frankenstein in Baghdad 2013 Book Books and publishers

  Ahmed Saadawi's IPAF-winning novel — a creature stitched from bombing victims walks post-2003 Baghdad.

• Halalgoogling (search engine) 2013 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An Islamic internet search engine launched on 9 July 2013 that gathered results from other engines such as Google and Bing and showed what it deemed halal, blocking what it deemed haram by Sharia; its launch was reported by agencies and papers in Asia and Europe, and Wikipedia says it appears defunct since February 2025.

• What is in the Quran? Message of the Quran in Simple English (Abdur Raheem Kidwai) 2013 Book Books and publishers

  A simple-English presentation of the meanings of the Qur'an by Abdur Raheem Kidwai of Aligarh Muslim University, well known for his bibliographies of English Qur'an translations, first published in 2013 and in a revised third edition by Viva Books, New Delhi, in 2023; its author describes it as not strictly a translation but a paraphrase of the meaning and message of the Qur'an, with 410 footnotes introducing basic Islamic concepts.