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• Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) 1990 Standards body Enterprise, brands and finance Bahrain

  An international not-for-profit body based in Bahrain, established by an agreement signed in Algiers on 26 February 1990, which sets accounting, auditing and Shariah standards for Islamic financial institutions; it has members from more than 45 countries, and regulators in several states apply its standards.

• Junoon 1990 Organisation Organisations

  Pakistan's 'Sufi rock' pioneers of 'Sayyoni' — the biggest rock band in the Muslim world's rock history.

• The Halal Guys 1990 Restaurant Enterprise, brands and finance

  A Manhattan halal food cart from 1990 that became a global franchise; the famous American halal-food sign.

• Abderrazak Hamdallah 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Moroccan striker born in Safi in 1990 who plays for Saudi club Al-Taawoun. He began with Olympic Safi, played in Norway, China and Qatar, then became one of the Saudi Pro League's leading scorers with Al-Nassr and Al-Ittihad; he was the world's leading goalscorer of 2019, won the 2025 FIFA Arab Cup with Morocco and then retired from international football.

• Ahmed Balafrej 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Moroccan politician and diplomat (1908–1990), born at Rabat to a family of Andalusian origin. A founder of the national movement, he took part in the Moroccan Action Committee of 1934 and in founding the Istiqlal Party, whose secretary-general he was (1944–1960); exiled to Corsica in 1944, he pleaded Morocco's independence before the United Nations General Assembly in 1953. After independence he was foreign minister (1956–1958), then prime minister while keeping the foreign ministry (May–December 1958), and in 1963 personal representative of Hassan II and foreign minister again.

• Ali al-Tantawi 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian jurist, writer and judge (1909–1999) who wrote for al-Risala for twenty years, served twenty-five years as a judge and drafted Syria's personal-status law, then lived thirty-five years in Saudi Arabia, where his 'Ala Ma'idat al-Iftar', 'Nur wa Hidaya' and 'Masa'il wa Mushkilat' were among the longest-running programmes of its radio and television; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam, 1990.

• Ali Maâloul 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tunisian footballer (born 1990 in Sfax), a left-back who began with CS Sfaxien, played for Egypt's Al Ahly from 2016 to 2025, then returned to Sfaxien; he has won around ninety caps for Tunisia.

• Ali Mabkhout 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Emirati striker born in Abu Dhabi in 1990. He spent sixteen years with Al Jazira (2008–2024), scoring 218 league goals, before moving to Al-Nasr; he is the United Arab Emirates' all-time top scorer with 85 international goals.

• Apsana Begum 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Apsana Begum (born 25 May 1990 in Shadwell, London, to Bangladeshi parents) is a British Labour politician, MP for Poplar and Limehouse since 2019 and the first Member of Parliament in Britain to wear a hijab. She studied at Queen Mary University of London and SOAS.

• Hassam Khan 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani actor (born 1990) known for the lead role of Salman in Geo TV's Noor Jahan (2016) and for roles in Khasara and Dil Mom Ka Diya (2018); he began as a theatre actor in 2011 before moving to television.

• Hussein Onn 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian statesman, born at Johor Bahru in 1922, the son of UMNO's founder Onn Jaafar. After a military commission in the British Indian Army and a legal career in London and Kuala Lumpur, he rose through UMNO to become deputy prime minister in 1973 and third prime minister in 1976, continuing the New Economic Policy until ill health forced his retirement in 1981; he died at San Mateo, California, in 1990.

• İlkay Gündoğan 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  German professional footballer (born 1990 in Gelsenkirchen to Turkish parents). A midfielder who won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal double with Borussia Dortmund in 2012 and captained Manchester City to a continental treble in 2022–23, before playing for Barcelona and joining Galatasaray in 2025; he won 82 caps for Germany and captained them at Euro 2024.

• Imran ibn Mansur 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  British dawah preacher from London known as Dawah Man. He built his YouTube channel — launched as Naseeha Sessions — on direct, street-style reminders answering viewers' questions, was profiled in academic studies of online preaching, and later retired the Dawah Man persona to coach Muslim entrepreneurs; the channel now runs as Chai With My Bhai.

• Khurshid Ahmad 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani economist, thinker and politician (1932–2025), a founder of Islamic economics as an academic field, co-founder of the Islamic Foundation in Leicester, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, head of Pakistan's Planning Commission and senator (2002–2012); author and editor of more than seventy books, King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (1990) and Nishan-e-Imtiaz (2011).

• Miralem Pjanić 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bosnian former professional footballer, born in Tuzla in 1990 and raised in Luxembourg after his family fled the Bosnian War. A midfielder who began at Metz and Lyon, starred for Roma, and won four Serie A titles with Juventus, before playing for Barcelona, Beşiktaş, Sharjah and CSKA Moscow and retiring in 2025; he was widely cited as one of the finest free-kick takers of his era. He earned 115 caps for Bosnia and Herzegovina and represented the country at its first major tournament, the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

• Mizanur Rahman Azhari 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi Islamic preacher and scholar, born in Dhaka in 1990. He studied tafsir and Qur'anic sciences at Al-Azhar University and then at the International Islamic University Malaysia, and became known for waz mahfil lectures that reach millions of viewers on digital platforms.

• Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani stateswoman and economist (1905–1990), the wife of Liaquat Ali Khan and Pakistan's first First Lady (1947–1951). Born Sheila Irene Pant at Almora into a Christian family, she converted to Islam at her marriage in 1932. She founded the All Pakistan Women's Association (APWA) in 1949, was the first Muslim woman delegate to the United Nations (1952) and Pakistan's first woman ambassador (the Netherlands, 1954–1961), and the first woman governor of a Pakistani province (Sindh, 1973–1976).

• Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ruler of Dubai (1958–1990), a founding father of the United Arab Emirates, its first Vice President (1971–1990) and its Prime Minister from 30 April 1979 until his death. He had effectively run the emirate since the late 1930s and led Dubai's transformation from a small creek settlement into a modern port and trading hub: the dredging and expansion of the Creek, Port Rashid after the 1966 Fateh oil discovery, and, with Zayed bin Sultan, the creation of the federation on 2 December 1971. He died at Dubai on 7 October 1990 and was succeeded by his son Maktoum.

• Superbon Singha Mawynn 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Thai Muay Thai fighter and kickboxer, born Suppachai Muensang in Phatthalung in 1990. Trained early on under Buakaw Banchamek, he won the Kunlun Fight tournament in 2016, took the ONE Featherweight Kickboxing World Championship in 2021 by knocking out Giorgio Petrosyan, returned to the title in 2024, and compiled 117 wins.

• Tabraiz Shamsi 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  South African cricketer, born in Johannesburg in 1990. A left-arm unorthodox wrist-spin bowler, he made his international debut for South Africa in 2016 in both One Day Internationals and Tests, is South Africa's highest wicket-taker in Twenty20 Internationals, topped the ICC T20I bowling rankings in March 2021, took his first ODI five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka in September 2021 and a T20I five-for against England in 2022 that carried him past Dale Steyn as South Africa's leading T20I wicket-taker, is known for his passionate wicket celebrations, and plays in franchise leagues worldwide including the Pakistan Super League and Australia's Big Bash League.

• Taha Akgül 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish freestyle wrestler at 125 kg, born in Sivas in 1990. Olympic champion at Rio 2016 with further bronze medals in 2020 and 2024, a three-time world champion and eleven-time European champion. He retired after the Paris 2024 Olympics and became president of the Turkish Wrestling Federation.

• Yacine Brahimi 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Algerian professional footballer (born 1990 in Paris to Algerian parents). An attacking midfielder trained at the Clairefontaine academy who played for Rennes, Granada and Porto before moving to Qatar with Al-Rayyan and Al-Gharafa, he has won over seventy caps for Algeria and won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2021 FIFA Arab Cup with them.

• Yahya Haqqi 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  An Egyptian writer born in the Sayyida Zaynab district of Cairo in January 1905, who held a law degree.

• Youssef Msakni 1990 Figures of the last fifty years

  Former Tunisian footballer (born 1990 in Tunis), a winger who played for Espérance de Tunis and, for a decade, Al Duhail in Qatar; he won 104 caps for Tunisia, scoring 23 goals, between 2010 and 2024.

• Mustt Mustt 1990 Album Music and nasheed

  The first qawwali fusion album of the Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with the Canadian guitarist and producer Michael Brook, at Peter Gabriel's suggestion, released by Real World on 12 November 1990; Massive Attack's remix of the title song became the first Urdu song to reach the British charts, and the label claims sales of over 600,000 copies outside the Indian subcontinent.

• Mahmud Ali al-Banna 1985 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Qur'an reciter (1926–1985) who joined Egyptian Radio in 1948, recited at the Ahmad al-Badawi Mosque in Tanta (1959–1980) and then at al-Hussein Mosque in Cairo, recorded the Qur'an in murattal and mujawwad styles, and was deputy head of the reciters' syndicate from its founding in 1984.

• Hassanein Muhammad Makhlouf 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Azhari scholar (1890–1990). Born in Cairo to a family from Bani Adi in Upper Egypt, he graduated from the School of Sharia Judiciary in 1914, served as a sharia judge, held the office of Grand Mufti of Egypt twice (1946–1950 and 1952–1954), headed al-Azhar's fatwa committee, and wrote Kalimat al-Qur'an Tafsir wa-Bayan and Safwat al-Bayan li-Ma'ani al-Qur'an.

• Tunku Abdul Rahman 1983 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malaysian statesman and a prince of Kedah, born at Alor Setar in 1903. As president of UMNO he led the Alliance to victory in 1955, negotiated Malaya's independence from Britain and proclaimed it in 1957 as the federation's first prime minister, oversaw the formation of Malaysia in 1963, and led the country until 1970; he died at Kuala Lumpur in 1990.