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• Safiirka Islaamka 2018 Organisation Organisations

  'The Ambassador of Islam' — a Kenya-based Somali-language YouTube channel, created on 4 December 2018, which in its own description serves the community with social issues, stories and marriage topics, alongside lectures and talks by Somali scholars. It counted about 299,000 subscribers across some 1,683 videos by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026. The channel names no individual author, and it is recorded as a channel brand rather than a person.

• Labbaik VR (virtual-reality Hajj simulator) 2018 App Websites, apps, games and devices Pakistan

  A Pakistani virtual-reality Hajj and Umrah simulator app by a Karachi company, showing the holy sites of Mecca and Medina in 360 degrees from exact measurements and 80,000 8K photographs, to train pilgrims in the rites before they travel; the company told Arab News in July 2019 that it had trained 30,000 pilgrims with it through Hajj operators, and calls it 'the world's first virtual reality Hajj and Umrah simulator'.

• Asma Jahangir 2018 Figures of the last fifty years

  Asma Jilani Jahangir (27 January 1952 – 11 February 2018) was a Pakistani human-rights lawyer and activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, founded the AGHS Legal Aid Cell, served as United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, on freedom of religion or belief, and on human rights in Iran, and was the first woman to preside over Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association.

• Khalil Al-Qari 2018 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Khalil al-Qari, the Pakistani reciter and transmissions scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Shehu Shagari 2018 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian politician (1925–2018) from the town of Shagari in Sokoto State who worked as a teacher, sat in the House of Representatives from 1954 and held a succession of federal cabinet posts, before becoming Nigeria's first democratically elected president in the Second Republic (1979–1983). Re-elected in 1983, he was overthrown by a coup at the end of that year. He died in Abuja on 28 December 2018, aged 93.

• Tanzil-ur-Rahman 2018 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Tanzil-ur-Rahman, the Pakistani jurist and former chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Jinn 2018 Film Films United States

  Nijla Mu'min's film about an American teenager whose mother converts to Islam, searching for identity between faith, art and love.

• Capernaum 2018 Film Films CyprusFranceUnited Kingdom

  Capernaum.

• Manto 2018 Film Films India

  Manto.

• Of Fathers and Sons 2018 Documentary Films GermanyLebanonQatar

  Of Fathers and Sons.

• Padmaavat 2018 Film Films India

  Padmaavat.

• The Feeling of Being Watched 2018 Documentary Films United States

  Assia Boundaoui's documentary uncovering FBI surveillance of her Chicago Muslim neighbourhood in the 1990s and her lawsuit for the files.

• Tel Aviv on Fire 2018 Film Films BelgiumFranceIsrael

  Comedy about a Palestinian soap writer crossing an Israeli checkpoint who must satisfy an intelligence officer on the ending; festival-winning.

• Damascus Time 2018 Film Films Iran

  Ebrahim Hatamikia's Iranian film about pilots flying aid into besieged Syria under ISIS attack — a major contemporary Iranian war production.

• The Majestic Qur'an (Musharraf Hussain) 2018 Book Books and publishers

  A 'plain English' rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Musharraf Hussain, an al-Azhar graduate and British educationist, published by Invitation Publishing in Nottingham in 2018 with sura introductions, topical headings, marginal reflection questions and sparing footnotes, and an endorsement from Egypt's Dar al-Ifta in its front matter; after British imams discussed criticisms concerning doctrine, the translator published an errata list and said the revised work was fully in line with the creed of al-Nasafi.

• My First Qur'an with Pictures: Juz' Amma (Shereen Sharief) 2018 Book Books and publishers

  An illustrated English children's translation of the suras of Juz' Amma by Shereen Sharief, a UK pharmacist born into a Kurdish family who grew up in Iraq, illustrated by a British artist and checked and approved by Abdullah ibn Yusuf al-Judai; Part 1, of 47 pages covering twenty-five suras from al-Nas to al-Balad, came out in 2018 and has been reprinted more than three times, Part 2 followed in 2019, and it is distributed in the UK and many other countries, with Spanish and Italian versions.

• Abd al-Rahman Siwar al-Dhahab 2004 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sudanese field marshal and statesman (1934–2018), defence minister and commander-in-chief, who took power during the uprising of 6 April 1985 as head of the Transitional Military Council and handed it to an elected civilian government in 1986, then chaired the board of the Islamic Call Organization; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (2004).

• 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.

• Dubai International Holy Quran Award 1997 Competition Awards and competitions

  An annual international award and competition for memorising the Qur'an in Dubai, launched in 1418 AH (1997) by order of Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum; it runs an international competition for men, another for women and local competitions, honours an Islamic Personality of the Year, and publishes books in Qur'anic studies.

• 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.

• Fuat Sezgin 1979 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish historian of Arab-Islamic science whose seventeen-volume Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums carried Brockelmann's history of Arabic literature forward. Born at Bitlis in 1924 and trained at Istanbul University under Hellmut Ritter, he was dismissed after the 1960 coup and moved to Frankfurt, where he founded the Institute for the History of the Arab-Islamic Sciences (1982) and its museum of scientific instruments; a sister museum opened in Istanbul in 2008. He died in Istanbul in 2018.