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• Dubai Islamic Bank 2025 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Arab EmiratesBosnia & HerzegovinaIndonesia

  An Emirati bank based in Dubai, founded by Saeed bin Ahmed Lootah in 1975, which follows Sharia principles across all its activities; it is the UAE's largest Islamic bank by assets and is listed on the Dubai Financial Market, acquired Noor Bank in 2020, and has operations in Bosnia, Pakistan, Kenya, Indonesia and Sudan.

• Saladin: The Conqueror of Jerusalem 2023 Series Series and programmes PakistanTürkiye

  A Turkish–Pakistani co-production on Saladin's rise in Egypt and the recapture of Jerusalem — the largest recent screen production on the Crusades leader.

• Joyland 2022 Film Films Pakistan

  Saim Sadiq's Cannes-winning film about a Lahore family shaken when the son joins a dance theatre — briefly banned in Pakistan, then released amid religious debate.

• Raqs-e-Bismil 2020 Series Series and programmes Pakistan

  A Pakistani series about a religious family's son whose forbidden love teaches him the difference between inherited piety and true devotion — a modern hit.

• Alif 2019 Series Series and programmes Pakistan

  The Pakistani series pairing a famous filmmaker with a young Qur'an memoriser — contemporary Pakistani TV's most-discussed treatment of art, faith and the soul.

• Zindagi Tamasha 2019 Film Films Pakistan

  A Pakistani film about a devout naat-reciter shunned after a wedding video of him dancing goes viral — delayed by religious protest, then Pakistan's Oscar submission.

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bol 2011 Film Films Pakistan

  Bol.

• Khuda Aur Muhabbat 2011 Series Series and programmes Pakistan

  A Pakistani series about a young man whose love for a religious girl transforms his life; revived with later seasons that broke Pakistani viewership records.

• Islam360 2009 App Websites, apps, games and devices Pakistan

  A Karachi app for searching the Qur'an and hadith by word, verse and subject, with recitations, translations, tafsir, prayer times and the qibla, in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Romanised Urdu; it began as a desktop program, 'Search Quran', made by Zahid Hussain Chhipa in 2009, then became a free app funded by advertising and donors, published on Google Play by the Islam360 Foundation Trust.

• In the Name of God 2007 Film Films Pakistan

  Shoaib Mansoor's Pakistani film about two musician brothers pulled apart by militancy and moderation after 9/11 — a major national debate on religion, music and forced marriage.

• Bank Makramah 2006 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Pakistan

  A Pakistani Islamic bank in Karachi, which grew in 2006 out of Rupali Bank's Pakistan operations, traded as Arif Habib Bank and then Summit Bank, and was converted into an Islamic bank as Bank Makramah in November 2023.

• BankIslami Pakistan 2006 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Pakistan

  A Pakistani Islamic bank in Karachi operating as a Shariah-compliant institution, which began operating on 7 April 2006 under a State Bank of Pakistan licence and has more than 550 branches; it became part of JS Group in 2023.

• Al Baraka Group 2002 Conglomerate Enterprise, brands and finance BahrainAlgeriaEgypt

  An international Islamic financial group based in Manama, licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain as an investment firm under Islamic principles, with banking subsidiaries in 13 countries; registered in 2002, it floated in 2006 and was delisted from the Bahrain Bourse in 2024.

• The Clay Bird 2002 Film Films BangladeshFrancePakistan

  The Clay Bird.

• Meezan Bank 1997 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Pakistan

  A Pakistani Islamic bank based in Karachi, founded in 1997 as an Islamic investment bank, Al-Meezan Investment Bank, which became a commercial bank after buying Société Générale's Pakistan operations in 2002; it is Pakistan's largest Islamic bank and its second-largest bank by market capitalisation.

• Al Baraka Bank Pakistan 1991 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Pakistan

  A Pakistani Islamic bank in Karachi, a subsidiary of Bahrain's Al Baraka group; it began in Pakistan in 1991 as a branch of Al Baraka Islamic Bank Bahrain, was incorporated in 2004, and in 2010 merged with Emirates Global Islamic Bank in the first merger in Pakistan's Islamic banking.

• Faysal Bank 1987 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Pakistan

  A Pakistani Islamic bank in Karachi, which began in Pakistan in October 1987 as a branch of Bahrain's Faysal Islamic Bank, owned by Prince Mohammed bin Faisal; it became a conventional bank and converted fully to Islamic banking in December 2022; Bahrain's Ithmaar Bank holds most of it.

• Islamic Relief Worldwide 1984 Relief agency Organisations AfghanistanBosnia & HerzegovinaBangladesh

  An international relief and development NGO founded in 1984 by Hany El-Banna and fellow students of the University of Birmingham, with its international headquarters in Birmingham and offices and branches in more than forty countries; its income was £275.6 million in 2024. It has faced allegations from Israel, the UAE and others, which it denies, and an independent audit in 2014 found no link to terrorism.

• Waris 1979 Series Series and programmes Pakistan

  The classic 1979 PTV serial on feudal power and inheritance in rural Punjab — one of Pakistan's most-watched dramas.

• 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).