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• Labbaik Media Cell 2021 Organisation Organisations

  Labbaik Media Cell is the media cell of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan and its YouTube channel (@LabbaikMediaCell313); the channel describes itself as the party's social media network and publishes its leaders' speeches and bayans in Urdu, and it counted about 192,000 subscribers by vidIQ's count updated on 6 November 2026.

• Taw Haa Tv 2021 Organisation Organisations

  A Bangladeshi YouTube channel (@TawHaaTv) carrying the Bengali lectures of the preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan; created in 2021, it counted about 1.43 million subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026, and its most-viewed videos are all his lectures.

• Bank Syariah Indonesia 2021 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Indonesia

  A state-owned Indonesian Islamic bank based in Jakarta, which began on 1 February 2021 by merging the sharia banks of three state banks (Bank Syariah Mandiri, BNI Syariah and BRI Syariah); in June 2024 it was the world's largest Islamic bank by customer numbers, and it became a state-owned Persero in January 2026.

• Lotus Bank 2021 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Nigeria

  A non-interest and ethical bank in Nigeria, the country's third non-interest bank and the first to start from the south, headquartered in Lagos; it was licensed for non-interest banking on 17 June 2021 and opened on 7 July 2021.

• Abdelaziz Bouteflika 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Algerian politician and diplomat, born at Oujda in Morocco in 1937. He fought in the National Liberation Army as a young man, served as Algeria's foreign minister (1963-1979) and president of the UN General Assembly, and was then president of Algeria for almost twenty years (1999-2019) until the Hirak protests forced his resignation. He died in 2021.

• Abdul Hameed Azhari 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdul Hameed Azhari, the Indian Islamic scholar of Kerala; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Abdul Qadeer Khan 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani nuclear physicist and metallurgical engineer, born in Bhopal in 1936 and died in Islamabad in 2021. He emigrated to Pakistan in 1952, trained at Western European universities, and in 1976 founded the Engineering Research Laboratories at Kahuta — later Khan Research Laboratories — which built Pakistan's centrifuge uranium enrichment programme. In 2004 he was debriefed over a nuclear proliferation network and confessed on television; President Musharraf pardoned him and he spent years under house arrest. He was given a state funeral at Faisal Mosque.

• Abla al-Kahlawi 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian jurist and preacher (1948–2021), professor of comparative fiqh and dean of the Faculty of Islamic and Arabic Studies for Women at Al-Azhar University, who gave daily lessons for women at the Masjid al-Haram from 1987 to 1989, presented religious television programmes including 'Fi Hubb al-Mustafa', founded the al-Baqiyat al-Salihat charity in al-Muqattam, and died in Cairo of Covid-19.

• Ali Mahdi Muhammad 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Somali politician and businessman (1939–2021), a Mogadishu-based entrepreneur and United Somali Congress figure who was proclaimed president of Somalia on 26 January 1991 after the overthrow of Mohamed Siad Barre, becoming Somalia's fourth president (1991–2000) without his authority extending beyond parts of the capital, in rivalry with Mohamed Farrah Aidid; he died in Nairobi on 10 March 2021 after contracting COVID-19.

• Ebrahim Desai 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ebrahim Desai, the South African Deobandi mufti and fatwa writer; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Lamine Diack 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese athlete, sports administrator and politician (1933–2021) from Dakar; president of the IAAF from 1999 to 2015 after a career in athletics and football, and earlier mayor of Dakar and a member of parliament; he was convicted in Paris in 2020 in the corruption case over the cover-up of Russian doping, and died in Dakar on 3 December 2021.

• Mir Hazar Khan Khoso 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani jurist (1929–2021), caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from March to June 2013 to conduct the general elections, chief justice of the Balochistan High Court, chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court (1992–1994), and twice briefly governor of Balochistan.

• Mufti Abdul Razzaq 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Mufti Abdul Razzaq, the Indian scholar and Sharia chief; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Nawal El Saadawi 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian physician, psychiatrist and feminist writer, born at Kafr Tahla in 1931. In some forty books — among them Women and Sex and Woman at Point Zero — she confronted female genital mutilation, patriarchy and authoritarian rule; she was imprisoned under President Sadat in 1981, founded the Arab Women's Solidarity Association, and died in Cairo in 2021.

• Rahat Fateh Ali Khan 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani qawwal and singer (born 1974) of the Fateh Ali Khan family, nephew and pupil from the age of seven of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and his successor at the head of the party; one of Pakistan's most popular and highest-paid singers, a Hindi film playback singer since 2003, the first Pakistani to sing at a Nobel Peace Prize concert (2014), and the voice of 'Zaroori Tha', which passed a billion views.

• Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Syed Ata-ul-Muhaimin Bukhari, head of India's Ahl-e-Hadith council; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Usman Mansoorpuri 2021 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Usman Mansoorpuri, the Indian scholar and Jamiat chief; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Alparslan: Büyük Selçuklu 2021 Series Series and programmes Türkiye

  Turkish historical series on the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan and Manzikert; among the largest Turkish period productions after Ertuğrul.

• Casablanca Beats 2021 Film Films FranceMorocco

  Casablanca Beats.

• Amina 2021 Film Films Nigeria

  Amina.

• Farha 2021 Film Films JordanPalestinian TerritoriesSweden

  Darin Sallam's film about a Palestinian girl locked in a cellar during the 1948 events; Jordan's Oscar entry, it stirred controversy in Israel.

• Flee 2021 Documentary Films DenmarkFranceNorway

  Flee.

• Let It Be Morning 2021 Film Films FranceIsrael

  Let It Be Morning.

• Mendirman Jaloliddin 2021 Series Series and programmes TürkiyeUzbekistan

  Uzbek-Turkish series on Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah and his resistance to the Mongol invasion; a Central Asian production.

• We Are Lady Parts 2021 Series Series and programmes United Kingdom

  Nida Manzoor's Channel 4 sitcom about an all-Muslim-women punk band in London — BAFTA-winning and praised for breaking Muslim-women stereotypes.

• Nussa (film) 2021 Film Films Indonesia

  Visinema's theatrical film spun off from the Nussa series — the boy competes in a science fair while the family faces life after the father's passing.

• Rashash 2021 Series Series and programmes Saudi Arabia

  Rashash.

• Rehana Maryam Noor 2021 Film Films Bangladesh

  Rehana Maryam Noor.

• Huda's Salon 2021 Film Films EgyptNetherlandsPalestinian Territories

  Huda's Salon.

• The Lady of Heaven 2021 Film Films United Kingdom

  British film about Fatima, daughter of the Prophet; it drew wide controversy and was seen by many Muslims as offensive in its depictions.

• The Gravedigger's Wife 2021 Film Films GermanyFinlandFrance

  The Gravedigger's Wife.

• 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.

• IslamQA (Islam Question & Answer) 1996 Platform Websites, apps, games and devices

  An online fatwa and question-and-answer website begun by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid in 1996 and run under his general supervision, counted among the first online fatwa services; it answers questions from Muslims and others in sixteen languages on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a, as it describes itself, and was blocked in Saudi Arabia in 2010 after fatwas were reserved to the Council of Senior Scholars.

• 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.

• The Sabri Brothers 1978 Band Music and nasheed Pakistan

  Pakistani qawwali party (1956–2021) fronted by the brothers Ghulam Farid Sabri and Maqbool Ahmed Sabri and closely connected with the Chishti order; the first qawwals to perform in the West and the first Asian artists at Carnegie Hall (1975), known for 'Tajdar-e-Haram' and 'Bhar Do Jholi Meri', and holders of the Pride of Performance (1978).