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• Arabian Oud 1982 Brand Enterprise, brands and finance

  Arabian Oud.

• Qatar Islamic Bank 1982 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United KingdomQatar

  A Qatari bank based in Doha, founded in 1982, whose operations are supervised by a Shari'a board; the Qatar Investment Authority is its largest shareholder, and it was 15th on Forbes Middle East's 30 Most Valuable Banks 2025.

• al-Zain Muhammad Ahmad 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sudanese reciter and imam (born 1982) from North Kordofan who memorised the Qur'an at the Khursi khalwa in Bara in the Duri and Hafs transmissions, received an al-Azhar ijaza from Ahmad Isa al-Ma'sarawi in 2008, and has led the Sayyida Sanhouri Mosque in Khartoum since 2001, drawing thousands to its tarawih and tahajjud.

• Anthony Tan 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Anthony Tan (born 1982 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Chinese name Chen Bingyao) is a Malaysian-born Singaporean businessman, co-founder in 2012 of the taxi-booking company MyTeksi — rebranded Grab — and its group chief executive; educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard Business School, where he and his classmate Tan Hooi Ling (no relation) wrote the winning business plan, he took Singapore citizenship in 2016 as the company moved its headquarters to Singapore, and Forbes listed him among Singapore's richest people in 2021.

• Buakaw Banchamek 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Thai Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer, born Sombat Banchamek in Surin province in 1982. He won the K-1 World MAX tournament in 2004 and 2006 — the first man to win it twice — compiled 246 wins, and in 2023 led the largest Wai Kru performance, a Guinness World Record. He is regarded as one of the greatest Muay Thai fighters of all time.

• Chaudhry Muhammad Ali 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani civil servant and politician (1905–1982), a builder of Pakistan's first civil bureaucracy and budgets, who served as finance minister (1951–1955) and then as prime minister from August 1955 to September 1956, promulgating Pakistan's first constitution in 1956, and in retirement wrote The Emergence of Pakistan (1967). He died at Karachi on 2 December 1982.

• Fahad Al-Kandari 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Kuwaiti Qur'an reciter and television presenter, born in Kuwait in 1982, and imam of the Grand Mosque in Kuwait City. He began leading prayer at fourteen and completed memorising the Qur'an at fifteen, and became known for television programmes such as Musafir ma'a al-Qur'an (Traveller with the Qur'an), Bil-Qur'an Ihtadayt (Guided by the Qur'an) and Wisam al-Qur'an; his official YouTube channel publishes his recitations and programmes to a wide audience.

• Fatima Bhutto 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Fatima Bhutto (born 1982) is a Pakistani writer and columnist, born in Kabul during her father Murtaza Bhutto's exile and raised in Syria and Karachi. Educated at Barnard College and SOAS in London, she published a poetry collection at fifteen, the family memoir Songs of Blood and Sword (2010), and the novels The Shadow of the Crescent Moon (2013) and The Runaways (2019). She is an outspoken critic of her aunt Benazir Bhutto and of dynastic politics, and belongs to no political party.

• Fazlur Rahman Khan 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi-American structural engineer, born in Dhaka in 1929 and died in 1982, who invented the tubular structural systems on which the modern skyscraper rests. His works include the Sears Tower in Chicago (now the Willis Tower), the John Hancock Center and the Hajj terminal at Jeddah airport; he was called the 'father of tubular designs' and the 'Einstein of structural engineering'.

• Firaq Gorakhpuri 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian Urdu poet and critic (1896–1982), whose birth name was Raghupati Sahay, of Gorakhpur. He taught English literature at Allahabad University and was the first Urdu writer to receive the Jnanpith Award (1969), for his collection Gul-e-Naghma.

• Hafeez Jullundhri 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani poet (1900–1982) who wrote the lyrics of Pakistan's national anthem (the Qaumi Tarana) and of the anthem of Azad Kashmir, and authored the four-volume Shahnama-e-Islam. Born in Jalandhar, he migrated to Lahore in 1947, held cultural and publicity posts in the new Pakistani state, and received the Pride of Performance and Hilal-i-Imtiaz awards.

• Hamid Aytac 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Hamid Aytac, the great calligrapher of the Turkish Republic; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Husein Đozo 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian Islamic theologian and reformist scholar, among the leading Muslim thinkers of socialist Yugoslavia. Trained in Sarajevo and at al-Azhar's Sharia faculty, he was imprisoned after the Second World War for his service as an imam in the Handžar Division, then rose within the Islamic Community — president of the Ulema Association, founder of the newspaper Preporod, professor of Qur'anic interpretation at Sarajevo's Islamic Theological Faculty, and author of the widely read 'Đozo's fatwas' column. He was officially rehabilitated in 1990.

• Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani economist, academic and author; the younger son of Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri. He is President of Minhaj-ul-Quran International and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Governors of Minhaj University Lahore, and the author of 50 books according to his university profile.

• Ibn Baz, Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  A Saudi scholar born in Riyadh in 1330 AH. He lost his sight during his early studies.

• Ilhan Omar 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  American Democratic politician, born in Mogadishu in 1982. Her family fled the Somali Civil War, spent four years in a refugee camp in Kenya, and received asylum in the United States in 1995. In 2016 she became the first Somali-American legislator in the country in the Minnesota House; in 2018 she was elected to the U.S. House for Minnesota's 5th district, becoming with Rashida Tlaib one of the first two Muslim women in Congress. She is deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and a prominent critic of Israel's policies and of pro-Israel lobbies.

• Jamal al-Husayni 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian politician from Jerusalem (1893–1982), secretary of the Palestine Arab Congress executive and of the Supreme Muslim Council, founder and chairman of the Palestine Arab Party (1935) and later chairman of the Arab Higher Committee. Exiled during the 1936–1939 revolt, he led the Arab delegation to the 1939 London Conference, was foreign minister of the All-Palestine Government in 1948, and ended his career in Saudi Arabia as an adviser to King Saud; he died at Riyadh.

• Josh Malihabadi 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Urdu poet (1898–1982), born Shabbir Hasan Khan in Malihabad and known as Shayar-e-Inqalab ('Poet of the Revolution'). A leading voice of the Progressive Writers' Movement, he migrated to Pakistan in 1956 and left more than 100,000 couplets.

• Kasman Singodimedjo 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian politician and lawyer from Central Java (1904–1982): first chairman of the Central Indonesian National Committee in 1945 and attorney general of the republic (1945–1946), a Muhammadiyah activist who argued in the 1950s Constitutional Assembly for Islam as the basis of the state, imprisoned under both Sukarno and Suharto, and named a National Hero in 2018.

• Khalid Latif 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  An American imam and university chaplain, born in Edison, New Jersey in 1982. He was New York University's first Muslim chaplain (2005) and the youngest chaplain in New York City Police Department history (2007), served as executive director and imam of the Islamic Center at NYU for almost twenty years, and in 2025 became director and co-founder of the Islamic Center of New York City; he also owns the halal butcher Honest Chops.

• Lupe Fiasco 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  The Muslim Chicago rapper of 'Food & Liquor', outspoken about Islam in his music and interviews.

• Muhammad al-Bahi 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Muhammad al-Bahi (1905-1982), Azhari scholar and thinker, first director of al-Azhar University after the 1961 law and Egyptian minister of Awqaf in 1962; born 3 August 1905 and died 10 September 1982, dates as printed in his book (pp. 11-13).

• Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian scholar and hadith master (1898–1982) of Kandhla, Shaykh al-Hadith of Mazahir Uloom Saharanpur and the nephew of Muhammad Ilyas Kandhlawi, founder of the Tablighi Jamaat. He gave bay'ah to Khalil Ahmad Saharanpuri and received khilafah from him, wrote Awjaz al-Masalik and the Fada'il-e-A'mal that became the Tablighi Jamaat's curriculum, and spent his last years in Medina, where he was buried in al-Baqi.

• Riz Ahmed 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  British actor and rapper of Pakistani origin, born in Wembley, London, in 1982. He was the first Muslim and first South Asian to win a lead-acting Emmy, for The Night Of (2016), was Oscar-nominated for Sound of Metal (2019), won the Academy Award for his short film The Long Goodbye, and is a leading voice on the screen representation of Muslims, with the 'Riz Test' named after him.

• Sultan al-Atrash 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian national leader (1891–1982) and paramount chief of the Druze Mountain who commanded the Great Syrian Revolt against the French Mandate (1925–1927); he refused every political office after Syrian independence and is remembered for his slogan: Religion is for God, the fatherland is for all.

• Sultan Kösen 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish farmer from Mardin Province, born in 1982, who holds the Guinness World Record as the tallest living man at 251 cm, with the largest hands measured on a living person. His exceptional growth was caused by a pituitary tumour, and treatment halted his growth in 2012.

• Yasser Al-Qahtani 1982 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi Arabian former professional footballer (forward), born in 1982. He began at Al-Qadsiah, moved to Al-Hilal in 2005 and played there until 2018 apart from a loan season at Al Ain in the Emirates (2011–2012). He captained Saudi Arabia, won 108 caps and scored 42 goals, and was named Asian Footballer of the Year in 2007 after leading his country to the AFC Asian Cup final.

• Nikaah 1982 Film Films India

  B.R. Chopra's Hindi film about a wife divorced by triple talaq in a moment of anger — it sparked a national debate in India on Islamic divorce.

• Le Coran: Français–Peul (Oumar Bâ) 1982 Book Books and publishers

  The first written translation of the meanings of the Qur'an into Fula in Latin script, by the Mauritanian-Senegalese intellectual Oumar Bâ, published in Paris by L'Harmattan with the Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique in 1982 and reprinted in 2001, with a preface by Léopold Sédar Senghor dated 1970; it sets French and Fula in two columns, without the Arabic text or notes, and its French column is in fact Blachère's translation with elements from Montet, unacknowledged.

• Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 1981 Figures of the last fifty years

  Fourth King of Saudi Arabia (1913–1982), a son of King Abdulaziz by Al Jawhara bint Musaed Al Saud. He visited the United States with Faisal in 1943, became deputy prime minister in 1962 and crown prince in 1965, and ascended the throne on 25 March 1975 after Faisal's assassination; his reign saw the oil boom and the 1979 Grand Mosque seizure. He died in Taif on 13 June 1982, was buried at Al Oud cemetery in Riyadh, and was succeeded by his half-brother Fahd.