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• Minber TV 2017 Organisation Organisations

  An Ethiopian Islamic satellite television station broadcasting in Amharic, Afaan Oromo, Afar and Somali, carrying news, teaching programmes and the Merkuz nasheed series produced by its Minber Multimedia Production arm; its YouTube channel (@MinberTv1) counted about 857 thousand subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026.

• Swvl 2017 Platform Websites, apps, games and devices

  Swvl.

• Wahed 2017 Start-up Enterprise, brands and finance United Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomIndonesia

  An American fintech company in New York offering automated investment aligned with Islamic principles; it launched an automated Islamic investment platform in 2017 and, in July 2019, the first Sharia-compliant exchange-traded fund in the United States; it operates in 130 countries.

• Ahmed Kathrada 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who was convicted in the 1964 Rivonia Trial and spent 26 years in prison, 18 of them on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela, then served as an MP and as parliamentary counsellor to President Mandela, and founded the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in 2008.

• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1934–2017) was an Iranian Shia cleric and politician and a founding figure of the Islamic Republic. Trained at the Qom seminary under Borujerdi and Khomeini, he was speaker of parliament from 1980 to 1989 and acting commander-in-chief during the war with Iraq, then president of Iran from 1989 to 1997; he chaired the Expediency Discernment Council until his death and the Assembly of Experts from 2007 to 2011. Born at Bahreman near Rafsanjan, he died in Tehran on 8 January 2017.

• Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Sy 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese Tijani scholar and teacher (1925–2017), son of Serigne Babacar Sy and grandson of El Hadj Malick Sy. From 1950 he built a teaching movement among Senegal's educated Muslim youth — the Causerie musulmane instructive, the journal L'Islam éternel and the federation of the dahiras — and he was the spiritual guide of the Dahiratoul Moustarchidina wal Moustarchidaty. He founded the Parti de la Solidarité Sénégalaise (1959), served as ambassador to the United Arab Republic, and became a major industrialist. In his last years the Sy family recognised him as its khalifa; he died at Dakar on 15 March 2017.

• Jalal Talabani 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Jalal Talabani (1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician, founder and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the first non-Arab president of the Republic of Iraq, holding the presidency from 2005 to 2014 after decades of political and military struggle for Kurdish rights. Known as 'Mam Jalal' — Uncle Jalal — he was noted as a unifying mediator among Iraq's factions until his death at Berlin in 2017.

• Muhammad Saleemullah Khan 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

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

• Mustafa Tlass 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian officer and politician who served as minister of defence from 1972 to 2004 under Hafez al-Assad and then Bashar al-Assad, and was one of Assad's most trusted loyalists. He was also an author and publisher whose books and public statements drew wide controversy. He is the father of the defected general Manaf Tlass.

• Naim Süleymanoğlu 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish weightlifter born in Bulgaria in 1967, died in Istanbul in 2017. He defected to Turkey in 1986 to escape Bulgaria's forced name-changing campaign, and became a three-time Olympic champion and seven-time world champion who set 51 world records, nicknamed 'Pocket Hercules' for his short stature and extraordinary strength.

• Ruth Pfau 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau (9 September 1929 – 10 August 2017) was a German–Pakistani physician and Roman Catholic religious sister of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, born at Leipzig, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1953, joined the society in 1957, settled in Karachi in 1960, founded the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre and built Pakistan's national leprosy-control programme until the World Health Organization declared Pakistan in 1996 one of the first Asian countries to have controlled leprosy; she received Pakistani citizenship and a state funeral.

• Saleh Al-Sadlan 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Abu Ghanim Salih ibn Ghanim Al-Sadlan (1359–1439 AH / 1941–2017 CE) was a Saudi scholar and professor of comparative fiqh at the College of Sharia of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, formed by his father, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al al-Shaykh and Ibn Baz, and author of works on intention, congregational prayer and warnings against excess in takfir.

• Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Seventh King of Saudi Arabia, reigning since 23 January 2015; a son of King Abdulaziz and Hassa bint Ahmed Al Sudairi and one of the Sudairi Seven. He was governor of Riyadh for some 48 years (1963–2011), then Minister of Defense and Crown Prince from 2012 until he succeeded his half-brother Abdullah. He is the father of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

• Surin Pitsuwan 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Thai diplomat and politician of Malay descent, born at Nakhon Si Thammarat in 1949 and died at Bangkok in 2017. A Harvard-trained political scientist, he was Thailand's foreign minister from 1997 to 2001 and then the twelfth secretary-general of ASEAN from 2008 to 2012, the first holder of that office with significant political experience.

• Syed Shahabuddin 2017 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian diplomat and politician from Bihar (1935–2017) who served in the Foreign Service, including as ambassador to Venezuela and Algeria, then became a leading voice of Muslim politics in independent India and founded and edited the journal Muslim India (1983–2006).

• Last Men in Aleppo 2017 Documentary Films DenmarkSyriaTürkiye

  Last Men in Aleppo.

• The State 2017 Series Series and programmes United Kingdom

  Peter Kosminsky's British miniseries about Britons travelling to Syria to join ISIS; an award-winning, debated drama.

• The Imam 2017 Series Series and programmes

  An Arabic series on the life of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and his steadfastness during the Mihna — the largest Arabic drama about a Sunni scholar-saint.

• The Insult 2017 Film Films FranceLebanon

  Ziad Doueiri's film about a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee whose dispute becomes a national trial reopening civil-war wounds — Lebanon's first Oscar nominee.

• The Big Sick 2017 Film Films United States

  Kumail Nanjiani's Oscar-nominated romantic comedy about his real-life courtship with Emily Gordon amid a Pakistani-American family's arranged-marriage expectations.

• Insyriated 2017 Film Films BelgiumFranceLebanon

  Insyriated.

• What Will People Say 2017 Film Films GermanyDenmarkNorway

  What Will People Say.

• City of Ghosts 2017 Documentary Films United States

  City of Ghosts.

• Payitaht: Abdülhamid 2017 Series Series and programmes Türkiye

  A TRT series on Sultan Abdülhamid II's final years ruling from Yıldız Palace — a prominent modern dramatisation of the late Ottoman period.

• Man Like Mobeen 2017 Series Series and programmes United Kingdom

  Guz Khan's BBC Three comedy about a Muslim man raising his sister in Birmingham amid class, race, extremism and policing.

• Sheikh Jackson 2017 Film Films Egypt

  Sheikh Jackson.

• Omar & Hana 2017 Web series Series and programmes Malaysia

  Durioo+'s Malaysian animated series about siblings Omar and Hana — one of the most successful Muslim children's channels on YouTube, with billions of views and ten-language dubs.

• Wajib 2017 Film Films ItalyPalestinian Territories

  Annemarie Jacir's Palestinian film about a father and son delivering wedding invitations in Nazareth; a quiet family drama.

• Watu Wote 2017 Short film Films GermanyKenya

  Watu Wote.

• One Day in the Haram 2017 Documentary Films United KingdomSaudi Arabia

  Abrar Hussain's documentary observing a full day in Masjid al-Haram through the eyes of its muezzins, imams, cleaners and guards.

• Ali's Wedding 2017 Film Films Australia

  Australian film about an Iraqi-origin Muslim youth living a big lie to please his family between an arranged match and true love; a romantic comedy.

• De Koran: uitleg voor kinderen (Abdul Wahid van Bommel) 2017 Book Books and publishers

  The first interpretation of the Qur'an for children in Dutch, by Abdul Wahid van Bommel, an imam and professor at the Islamic University of Rotterdam, in a series of volumes, the first in 2017, the second in 2020 and the third in 2024, each centred on one of the five resolute prophets; he translates the selected verses himself and explains them in a 'philosophising with children' style for ages ten to fourteen, with illustrations by the Bosnian artist Senad Alić.

• Mohamed Salah 1992 SportFigures of the last fifty years Egypt

  Egyptian professional footballer, born in Nagrig, Gharbia, in 1992, who began at Al-Mokawloon, starred for Liverpool (2017–2026) winning the Champions League and Premier League titles and setting scoring records, captained Egypt at the 2026 World Cup, and plays for Trabzonspor in Türkiye since 2026. This record is the footballer, not the Tunisian scholar Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad, who has his own record in the museum.

• Muhammad Mustafa al-Azami 1980 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian-born Saudi hadith scholar (1930–2017) who studied at Deoband and al-Azhar and took his PhD at Cambridge (1966), professor emeritus at King Saud University, known for his critique of Goldziher's and Schacht's theories of hadith, editor of 'Sahih Ibn Khuzayma', the 'Muwatta' and 'Sunan Ibn Maja', and King Faisal Prize laureate for Islamic Studies (1980).

• Maryam Mirzakhani 1977 Figures of the last fifty years

  Maryam Mirzakhani (12 May 1977 – 14 July 2017) was an Iranian mathematician, the first woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal (2014), for her work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces. She won two International Mathematical Olympiad gold medals, took her doctorate at Harvard in 2004, was a professor at Stanford University, and died of breast cancer aged forty.