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• Muslim World League Sira Competition 1976 Competition prize Awards and competitions Saudi Arabia

  A worldwide competition for writing the Prophet's biography, announced by the Muslim World League at a conference in Pakistan in 1396 AH, with results announced in Shaban 1398 AH and prizes handed over at the League's conference in Mecca in 1399 AH (1979); 171 studies were entered, and al-Raheeq al-Makhtum took first place.

• Abdul Aziz Al-Tarefe 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi hadith scholar and jurist, born in Kuwait in 1976 and settled in Riyadh. Known for recalling hadith from the major collections from memory, he graduated from the College of Sharia at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University and worked as a researcher at the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. According to the reports carried in the sources, he was arrested in April 2016 and remains detained.

• Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi peasant leader and politician (1880–1976), known as the Red Maulana, who was taken as a disciple by the pir Sayyid Nasir al-Din al-Baghdadi and studied at Deoband, led peasant movements in Assam and Bengal, founded the Awami Muslim League in 1949 and the National Awami Party in 1957, and remained a reference point for leftist and populist-Islamic opposition until his death at Dhaka on 17 November 1976.

• Abdul Razak Hussein 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian statesman, born at Pekan, Pahang, in 1922. Deputy prime minister from 1957, he directed the National Operations Council after the 1969 riots, succeeded Tunku Abdul Rahman as Malaysia's second prime minister in 1970, launched the New Economic Policy, and realigned the country towards non-alignment; he died in office at London in 1976. His eldest son, Najib Razak, later became prime minister.

• Abdullah al-Ajiri 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi researcher, thinker and engineer, born in al-Khobar in 1976. He directs the Takween Center for Studies and Research and became known for his critique of atheism and of the theory of evolution and for his command of Ibn Taymiyya's heritage; he has published several books on thought and preaching.

• Abdullah Awad Al-Juhany 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi Qur'an reciter and imam and khatib of Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. Born in Medina on 13 January 1976 (11 Muharram 1396 AH), he memorised the Qur'an as a boy and took a tied first place in the international Qur'an competition in Mecca at sixteen. He studied at the Islamic University of Madinah and took a master's and a doctorate in tafsir at Umm al-Qura University; he has led the Tarawih prayers at the Haram since 2005 and was appointed a permanent imam in 2007.

• Abror Muxtor Aliy 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  An Uzbek Islamic blogger and preacher (born 1976 in the Namangan region), whose real name is Abror Abduazimov and who publishes as Abror Muxtor Aliy; Uzbekistan's most prominent independent online preacher, his YouTube channel counts about 1.1 million subscribers, and he worked in the official religious administration before the authorities dismissed him from two government positions in September 2022.

• Ahmed Hussen 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Somali-Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician, the first Somali-Canadian elected to Canada's Parliament, who has represented York South—Weston (York South—Weston—Etobicoke since 2025) since 2015 and served as minister of immigration, families and social development, housing and diversity and inclusion, and international development between 2017 and 2025.

• Alex Yoong 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian racing driver and broadcaster, born in Kuala Lumpur in 1976. The first Malaysian to race in Formula One, with Minardi in 2001–2002, he later won three races for A1 Team Malaysia in the A1 Grand Prix series.

• Bahlil Lahadalia 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bahlil Lahadalia (born 7 August 1976 in Banda, Central Maluku, Indonesia) is an Indonesian businessman and politician who rose from working as a public minibus driver to chair the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (HIPMI, 2015-2019), head the Investment Coordinating Board (2019-2024) and serve as Indonesia's first Minister of Investment (2021-2024); he became Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources in August 2024 and general chairman of the Golkar Party the same month, and in October 2026 was additionally made Coordinating Minister for Downstreaming and Energy Transition.

• Deddy Corbuzier 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian television presenter and former magician turned mentalist, born in Jakarta. He became famous through major television shows, then through his Close the Door podcast on YouTube, followed by millions, and he embraced Islam in 2019.

• Demis Hassabis 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Demis Hassabis (born 27 July 1976 in London) is a British artificial-intelligence researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind in 2010, shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Jumper for protein-structure prediction, founded Isomorphic Labs, and serves as chairman of Google DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet.

• Djamel Belmadi 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Algerian football manager and former player (born 1976 in Champigny-sur-Marne, France). A midfielder capped twenty times by Algeria who played for Paris Saint-Germain, Marseille, Manchester City and others; as a manager he won two Qatar Stars League titles with Lekhwiya (now Al-Duhail), led Algeria to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations title, and returned to Al-Duhail in 2025.

• Enis Rama 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Kosovar imam and author (born 12 June 1976 in Mitrovica), imam of the Isa Beg Mosque in Mitrovica and chief editor of Peace TV Shqip; trained in hadith at the Islamic University of Medina, he lectures weekly in Mitrovica and Pristina. His Facebook page counted 237,000 followers in October 2024 (Context study).

• Fei-Fei Li 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Fei-Fei Li (born 3 July 1976) is a Chinese-American computer scientist, a professor at Stanford University and the creator of ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence in the 2010s. Born in Beijing and raised in Chengdu, she emigrated to the United States as a teenager, co-founded the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and the nonprofit AI4ALL, and founded the spatial-intelligence company World Labs in 2024.

• Hamza Yerlikaya 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish Greco-Roman wrestler, born in Istanbul in 1976. A two-time Olympic champion (1996, 2000), three-time world champion and eight-time European champion, he was named FILA's Wrestler of the Century. After retiring he became a member of parliament, president of the Turkish Wrestling Federation and a deputy minister of youth and sports.

• Hasan al-Husseini 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bahraini scholar and preacher of Afghan origin, born in Mecca in 1976 and resident at Muharraq. A memoriser of the Qur'an with a doctorate in hadith, he has presented television programmes on exegesis, biography and history.

• Ibrahim al-Sakran 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Ibrahim al-Sakran, the Saudi legal researcher; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Kazi Nazrul Islam 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bengali poet, writer and musician (1899–1976), titled the 'Rebel Poet' after his 1922 poem 'Bidrohi' (The Rebel), and national poet of Bangladesh. Born at Churulia in Bengal, he received religious education and worked as a muezzin, served in the British Indian Army, then became a journalist in Calcutta who attacked colonial rule and was jailed for sedition. He wrote and composed nearly 4,000 songs known as Nazrul Geeti, lost his voice and memory to an incurable illness from 1942, moved to Dhaka in 1972, and died there in 1976.

• Khaldoon Al Mubarak 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Khaldoon Al Mubarak (born 1976, on the English article's reading) is an Emirati government official and business leader, chief executive and managing director of Mubadala Investment Company and chairman of Manchester City and of City Football Group. A member of Abu Dhabi's Executive Council since 2006 and founding chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority, he has served as the UAE President's Special Envoy to China since 2018.

• M'hamed Chenik 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tunisian politician and businessman (1889–1976) who headed the government twice: under Moncef Bey in 1943, and again from 1950 to 1952 under Lamine Bey, leading the negotiating government with France. In 1922 he founded the Tunisian Credit Cooperative, the first Tunisian bank; he presided over the Tunisian Chamber of Commerce from 1921 to 1942 and founded the STUFIT spinning and weaving company in 1939, directing it until his death.

• Mishary Rashid Alafasy 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Kuwaiti Quran reciter, imam of the Grand Mosque of Kuwait, preacher and nasheed artist, born in 1976. He studied the ten qira'at and tafsir at the Islamic University of Madinah, and his Quran recordings and nasheeds have spread worldwide through broadcast channels and digital platforms.

• Muhammad Ali al-Sayis 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

• Muhammad ibn Adam Al-Kawthari 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  British jurist and mufti from Leicester, founder and Chief Mufti of Darul Ifta Leicester and a teacher at Jamiah Uloom-ul-Quran in the same city. Born in 1976, he graduated from Darul Uloom Bury and studied further in Karachi and Damascus; his books include works on jurisprudence and marital relations.

• Muhammad Shafi Usmani 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Shafi Usmani, the Deobandi mufti who founded Darul Uloom Karachi and wrote Ma'ariful Qur'an; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Murtala Muhammed 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian officer and politician (1938–1976) from Kano who trained at Sandhurst, commanded the Second Division in the civil war, led the counter-coup of July 1975 and ruled Nigeria as head of state until his assassination in Lagos on 13 February 1976 during a failed coup attempt. Lagos's international airport bears his name.

• Qazi Muhammad Isa 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Barrister and politician from Pishin in Balochistan (1914–1976): founder of the Balochistan Muslim League and the youngest member of the All-India Muslim League's Working Committee, who represented Balochistan at the 1940 Lahore Resolution session, campaigned across India for Pakistan, and later served as Pakistan's ambassador to Brazil and on its United Nations delegations.

• Rashida Tlaib 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  American lawyer and Democratic politician, born in Detroit in 1976, the eldest of fourteen children of working-class Palestinian immigrants. In 2008 she became the first Muslim woman elected to the Michigan House; in 2018 she was elected to the U.S. House, becoming the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress and, with Ilhan Omar, one of its first two Muslim women. A member of the progressive 'Squad', she is a sharp critic of Israel and of U.S. aid to it, and was censured by the House in November 2023 over her statements after the October 7 attacks.

• Sal Khan 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  American educator of Bengali origin, born in 1976 in Metairie, Louisiana. He began in 2004 by tutoring his cousin in mathematics over the internet; that grew into Khan Academy, the free non-profit educational platform he founded, through which he has published thousands of video lessons, and he also founded Khan Lab School in 2014. He had worked as a hedge-fund analyst, and Time named him in its Time 100 in 2012.

• Samir Mustafa 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian preacher and sermon-giver from Helwan, south of Cairo, born in about 1976. He became known for his sermons and lesson series on devotion and the works of the heart from the pulpit of the al-Haqq Mosque in Helwan; he was arrested in 2017 and remains detained in a case in which no verdict has been issued.

• Sayed al-Naqshabandi 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian munshid, supplicant and reciter (1920–1976), founder of a school of ibtihalat whose voice became part of the Ramadan iftar on Egyptian radio; he recorded six supplications composed by Baligh Hamdi, among them 'Mawlay inni bi-babik', died on 14 February 1976 and was given the State Order (1979) and the Order of the Republic (1989) posthumously.

• Shareef Abdur-Rahim 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  American former basketball player and executive, born in Marietta, Georgia in 1976. He played twelve seasons in the NBA, won the Sydney 2000 Olympic gold medal with the United States team, later held front-office posts with the Sacramento Kings, and became president of the NBA G League in 2018.

• Tarab Abdul Hadi 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian feminist activist from Jenin (1910–1976). In 1929 she co-founded the Palestine Arab Women's Congress, the first women's organization in Mandate Palestine, and was a leading organizer of the Arab Women's Association; she was the wife of the politician Awni Abd al-Hadi.

• Yasser Al-Qurashi 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Qur'an reciter born in 1976 in the village of Deir Ganadleh in Asyut province. He memorised the Qur'an in his village and then in Cairo, earned ijazas in the Hafs reading, in tajwid and in the higher readings, served as imam and preacher at the Musa ibn Nusayr Mosque in Al-Shorouk City, Cairo, and later joined a mosque in the United Arab Emirates; his complete recorded murattal circulates worldwide.

• Yusuf Mansur 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian preacher and writer born in Jakarta in 1976 into a Betawi family. He leads the Daarul Qur'an pesantren in Tangerang, founded a Qur'an-memorisation programme in 2003, became famous for charity-centred preaching that earned him the nickname 'Ustadz Sedekah', founded the Paytren payment app, and has written books including Mencari Tuhan yang Hilang (Seeking the Lost God).

• Zainul Abedin 1976 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi painter (1914–1976), titled Shilpacharya, 'Great Teacher of the Arts', and regarded as the founding father of Bangladeshi modern art. Born in Kishoreganj, he became well known in 1944 through his sketches of the 1943 Bengal famine, drawn with ink he made from burnt charcoal on cheap packing paper. In 1948 he helped establish the Institute of Arts and Crafts at the University of Dhaka and was its founding principal. He died in Dhaka in 1976.

• The Message 1976 Film Films United KingdomKuwaitLebanon

  An epic film on the birth of Islam directed and produced by Moustapha Akkad, shot in Morocco and Libya in separate Arabic and English versions with different casts, and first shown in London on 29 July 1976 as Mohammad, Messenger of God before being retitled The Message; the Prophet is never seen or heard, Maurice Jarre's score was nominated for an Oscar, and the film was long banned in Egypt, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

• Omar Gatlato 1976 Film Films Algeria

  Omar Gatlato.

• The Wedding of Zein 1976 Film Films KuwaitSudan

  The Wedding of Zein.

• Ra'aytu Allah 1976 Book Books and publishers

  A book by Mostafa Mahmoud (Dar al-Ma'arif, 1976) that opens with an essay on 'seeing with the mind and inner sight', holding that God is seen through His traces and wisdom and that those brought near have a seeing of the heart, not of the eye; it then quotes and explains passages of al-Niffari's al-Mawaqif wa-l-Mukhatabat and closes with an essay on his doctrine of divine knowledge.