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• Bishwa Ijtema 2001 Gathering Conferences and conventions

  The annual gathering held by the Bangladeshi branch of the Tablighi Jamaat on the bank of the Turag at Tongi, north of Dhaka, since 1967: three days of prayer and talks closing with the final supplication (Akheri Munajat); attendance was estimated at 2 million in 2001 and 4 million in 2023, and it has been held in two phases since 2010 because of the crowds.

• International Open University 2001 University Learning and knowledge

  International Open University.

• Shahjalal Islami Bank 2001 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Bangladesh

  A shariah-compliant private commercial bank in Dhaka, incorporated on 10 May 2001; between 2012 and 2016 Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission brought cases against former officers, directors and borrowers for embezzling from it.

• Ahmad Shah Massoud 2001 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan military commander and politician, the foremost mujahideen commander of the Panjshir Valley against the Soviet occupation (1979–1989), known as the Lion of Panjshir. Minister of Defence of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992, he led the United Islamic Front (Northern Alliance) against the Taliban from 1996 until his assassination by al-Qaeda suicide bombers on 9 September 2001. He was posthumously named a national hero of Afghanistan.

• Faisal Husseini 2001 Figures of the last fifty years

  Faisal Abdel Qader al-Husseini (17 July 1940 – 31 May 2001) was a Palestinian politician born in Baghdad, the son of the commander Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni. He worked for the PLO from its founding, founded the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem in 1979, and was the leading Palestinian figure in East Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority's Minister for Jerusalem Affairs until his death from a heart attack in Kuwait; he was buried in the Khatuniyya in Jerusalem.

• Léopold Sédar Senghor 2001 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese Catholic poet and statesman, born at Joal in 1906. He co-founded the idea of négritude and became the first president of Senegal (1960-1980). He appears in this museum as an honoured cultural contemporary named in the founder's list — not as a Muslim.

• Mostafa Asal 2001 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian professional squash player, born in Cairo in 2001 and nicknamed The Raging Bull. A two-time world champion (2025 and 2026) and world No. 1, he has won two world team titles with Egypt.

• Plestia Alaqad 2001 Figures of the last fifty years

  Palestinian journalist and author (born 2001) from Gaza, whose daily video diaries of the Gaza war from October 2023 were carried by world media; she left Gaza for Australia in November 2023, published her diary as The Eyes of Gaza (2025), and was named to the BBC's 100 Women list in 2024.

• Tari Eason 2001 Figures of the last fifty years

  American basketball forward (born 2001) from Portsmouth, Virginia, who played at Cincinnati and LSU before the Houston Rockets drafted him 17th overall in 2022.

• Ali 2001 Film Films United States

  Michael Mann's biopic with Will Smith as Muhammad Ali — from his conversion to the Nation of Islam to the title fights and the Vietnam refusal; Smith was Oscar-nominated.

• Baran 2001 Film Films Iran

  Majid Majidi's film about an Iranian construction worker who discovers his co-worker is an Afghan girl in disguise; one of his Afghan-refugee works.

• Kandahar 2001 Film Films FranceIran

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film about an Afghan-Canadian journalist travelling to Kandahar to save her sister under Taliban rule; a landmark pre-2001 film on Afghanistan.

• Saint Mary 2001 Film Films Iran

  Shahriar Bahrani's Iranian film about Maryam daughter of Imran and the birth of Jesus, told from the Qur'anic and Islamic tradition.

• al-Inshirah wa-Raf' al-Diq fi Sirat Abi Bakr al-Siddiq 2001 Book Books and publishers

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, the first volume of his series History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished on 5 Muharram 1422 / 30 March 2001 and divided into an introduction, four chapters and a summary: Abu Bakr in Mecca; the Prophet's death and the Saqifa; Usama's army and the Ridda wars; the conquests in Iraq and Syria, the nomination of Umar and Abu Bakr's death.

• Dorar al-Saniyya (dorar.net) 2001 Digital library Websites, apps, games and devices

  An Islamic encyclopedias site owned by the Dorar al-Saniyya Foundation, a scholarly waqf foundation that states its aim as preserving the Sunna and building a scholarly reference on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a; it holds the Hadith Encyclopedia and encyclopedias of tafsir, creed, fiqh, religions, sects, ethics, history and the Arabic language, with phone apps and an API; its earliest archived capture is of November 2001.

• Fasl al-Khitab fi Sirat Amir al-Mu'minin Umar ibn al-Khattab 2001 Book Books and publishers

  A contemporary study by Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi of the person and times of Umar ibn al-Khattab, volume two of his History of the Rightly Guided Caliphs; finished on 13 Ramadan 1422 / 28 November 2001, it follows Umar from birth to martyrdom in seven chapters: his life in Mecca; his Qur'anic and prophetic formation; his nomination, the rules of his government and his life in society; the financial and judicial institutions; his dealings with governors; the conquests of Iraq and the East; and the conquests of Syria, Egypt and Libya.

• Islam.ru 2001 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A Russian-language Islamic portal (with an English version) founded by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Dagestan in 2001 with several foundations, publishing news, articles, religious texts and consultations; Russian scholars count it among the largest Islamic sites of the Russian internet, and its headquarters moved to Dagestan in 2011.

• IslamToday (islamtoday.net) 2001 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A Saudi Islamic website in Arabic and English run by Shaykh Salman al-Ouda, who was a director of its Arabic edition; its earliest archived capture is of 11 April 2001, and its earliest titled capture, of March 2002, calls it 'a web site about islam and muslims'.

• Palestinian Dialogue Network (paldf) 2001 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A Palestinian interactive news and discussion website founded by young Palestinians in 2001 under the motto 'the voice of Palestine to the world and the voice of the world to Palestine'; Arabic Wikipedia describes it as Islamic in affiliation and linked to the Palestinian Information Center, while the network says it takes no party position; it says more than fifty of its members had been killed by the Israeli army by the 2014 Gaza war.