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• Halal Development Corporation (HDC) 2006 Standards body Enterprise, brands and finance Malaysia

  A Malaysian federal government agency founded on 18 September 2006 as custodian of Malaysia's halal economy, coordinating standards, certification and industry development; it drew up the Halal Industry Master Plan 2030 and is secretariat of the Halal Industry Development Council.

• Alinma Bank 2006 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Saudi Arabia

  A Saudi joint-stock bank based in Riyadh, formed under Royal Decree No. M/15 of 28 March 2006 with share capital of SAR 20 billion, offering Shariah-compliant banking and investment services; it was 10th on Forbes Middle East's 30 Most Valuable Banks 2025.

• 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.

• Bank of London and The Middle East (BLME) 2006 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Kingdom

  A British Sharia-compliant bank based in London, incorporated on 7 August 2006 and authorised in July 2007, which was the largest Islamic bank in Europe in 2013; a Sharia Supervisory Board reviews its contracts, and Kuwait's Boubyan Bank is its majority shareholder.

• Masraf Al Rayan 2006 Company Enterprise, brands and finance

  Masraf Al Rayan.

• Peace TV 2006 News site Media

  Peace TV.

• Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Imam and khatib of the Grand Mosque in Mecca since 1984 and, since 2023, president of religious affairs for the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque (before that president-general of the affairs of the Two Holy Mosques from 2012); among the world's best-known Qur'an reciters. He memorised the Qur'an by the age of twelve, took a doctorate in sharia at Umm al-Qura University in 1995, and was named the Dubai International Holy Quran Award's Islamic Personality of the Year in 2005.

• Ali Farka Touré 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malian singer and guitarist, born in 1939 in the village of Kanau in the Timbuktu region and died at Bamako in 2006. He fused traditional Malian music with the blues — he was called 'the African John Lee Hooker' — recorded with Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabaté, won three Grammy Awards, one of them posthumously, and became mayor of his home town of Niafunké in 2004.

• Bismillah Khan 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian shehnai maestro (1916–2006), born Qamaruddin Khan at Dumraon in Bihar into a family of court musicians, who raised the shehnai from a ceremonial instrument to the concert stage, played at Delhi's Red Fort as India's flag was raised at independence in 1947, and received the Bharat Ratna (2001), India's highest civilian honour.

• Fareed Ayaz 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani qawwal (born 1952 in Hyderabad) of the Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana of Delhi, who leads with his brother Abu Muhammad what is considered Pakistan's best-known qawwali party today; he also sings dhrupad, khayal and thumri, performed 'Kangna' (2011) and other pieces for Coke Studio, and received the Pride of Performance in 2006.

• Hamza El Din 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Nubian musician — oud and tar player, vocalist and composer — born in the village of Toshka in southern Egypt in 1929 and died at Berkeley, California, in 2006. Trained first as an electrical engineer, he studied music in Cairo and Rome, collected the old songs of Nubia before the Aswan High Dam flooded its villages, and carried Nubian music to Western stages and universities; he is known as the father of modern Nubian music.

• Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (29 June 1926 – 15 January 2006) was the thirteenth Emir of Kuwait from 31 December 1977 until his death, and the third Emir since independence. He had been minister of finance (1962–1965) and prime minister (1965–1978) before the emirate. He survived an assassination attempt in 1985, led his government in exile in Saudi Arabia during the Iraqi occupation of 1990–1991 until the liberation, and returned to Kuwait in March 1991.

• W. Montgomery Watt 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for W. Montgomery Watt, the Scottish orientalist author of the Muhammad at Mecca and Muhammad at Medina biographies; he died in 2006 and his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Naguib Mahfouz 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian novelist, born in Cairo in 1911 and died there in 2006. He worked as a civil servant alongside his writing and produced more than thirty novels and hundreds of short stories that made the Cairo lane a microcosm of the world. He received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature — still the only Egyptian and the only Arab to win it in literature — and survived a 1994 assassination attempt driven by the controversy over his novel Children of Gebelawi.

• Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi, the controversial Iranian jurist; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Sabri Mudallal 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Aleppine munshid, singer and composer (1918–2006) who learned the maqams, muwashshahat and qudud from Omar al-Batsh, served as a muezzin of the Great Mosque of Aleppo, sang on Syrian radio from 1949, founded a religious-song ensemble with Hassan Haffar in 1954, and carried the Aleppine style abroad through records from 'Muezzins d'Alep' (1980) on.

• Saddam Hussein 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iraqi politician and military figure (1937–2006), president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003. He rose through the Iraqi Ba'ath Party, led Iraq through the war with Iran (1980–1988), the invasion of Kuwait (1990) and the sanctions that followed, and was captured, tried and executed by hanging at Baghdad on 30 December 2006.

• S. S. Sajideen Katki 2006 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for S. S. Sajideen Katki, the Indian Islamic scholar of Odisha; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Reel Bad Arabs 2006 Documentary Films United States

  The Media Education Foundation documentary built on Jack Shaheen's book documenting Hollywood's stereotyped portrayal of Arabs and Muslims across a thousand films.

• Offside 2006 Film Films Iran

  Jafar Panahi's film about Iranian girls trying to enter a stadium closed to women; Silver Bear winner at Berlinale.

• Days of Glory 2006 Film Films BelgiumAlgeriaFrance

  Days of Glory.

• Times and Winds 2006 Film Films Türkiye

  Reha Erdem's film about three children in an Anatolian village whose days are structured by the five prayer times — a landmark portrayal of rural worship.

• Bab Al-Hara 2006 Series Series and programmes Syria

  Famous Syrian series about a Damascus neighbourhood in the 1930s; among the most successful Arab social dramas, running many seasons.

• The Deen Show 2006 Web series Series and programmes United States

  Eddie's long-running English-language YouTube interview programme on Islam — scholars, celebrities and converts — among the oldest and widest-reaching da'wah channels.

• The Yacoubian Building 2006 Film Films Egypt

  Egyptian film from Alaa Al Aswany's novel: residents of a downtown Cairo building amid power, faith and sexuality; among the most influential Egyptian films of the century.

• Grbavica 2006 Film Films AustriaBosnia & HerzegovinaGermany

  Grbavica.

• Takva: A Man's Fear of God 2006 Film Films GermanyTürkiye

  A Turkish–German film about a devout doorkeeper hired to collect money for a Sufi order, whose piety is shaken by wealth and power — a study of religion and modern life.

• The Ahmadiyya Russian translation of the Qur'an (Khalid Ahmad and Ravil Bukharaev) 2006 Book Books and publishers

  The Ahmadiyya (Qadiani) community's official Russian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an, first published in 2006; translated from the Arabic by Khalid Ahmad with Rustam Khamatvaleev and revised, edited and prefaced by the Tatar writer Ravil Bukharaev, it relies on Mirza Tahir Ahmad's Urdu commentary and openly presents the Ahmadiyya interpretation, which is why many of Tatarstan's Sunni clergy saw it as dangerous.

• Alukah Network (alukah.net) 2006 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An Islamic network for da'wa, culture, scholarship and letters made of thirteen sites in Arabic and English, founded in 1427 AH / 2006, among them Afaq al-Shari'a, Culture and Knowledge, Society and Reform, Consultations, the Civilisation of the Word, Muslims in the World, a library, a talking library, the al-Majlis al-Ilmi forum and personal sites of scholars and preachers; 'alukah' is Arabic for a message.

• An Other Cup 2006 Album Music and nasheed

  The twelfth studio album by Yusuf, formerly known as Cat Stevens, released in November 2006 on Ya with Polydor and Atlantic; his first Western pop album since 1978 and his first under the name Yusuf, it reached number 2 in Austria and Germany and number 20 in the United Kingdom.

• The Art and Architecture of Islamic Cairo 2006 Book Books and publishers

  Richard Yeomans's English survey (Garnet, 2006) of the architecture and decorative arts of Islamic Cairo from the Arab conquest of 642 to the Ottoman conquest of 1517, dynasty by dynasty, from the Mosque of Amr to the Burji Mamluk foundations.

• Dunya (Nazeel Azami album) 2006 Album Music and nasheed

  The English nasheed singer Nazeel Azami's debut album, released by Awakening on 1 September 2006 with ten songs in English, Arabic, Urdu and Bengali; its songs and recitals reflect on personal experiences and on life as a 'seeker' aspiring to be at one with the world of God, joining hamd, naat and folk music.

• Islam Story (islamstory.com) 2006 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An Islamic history site supervised by the Egyptian preacher and historian Ragheb el-Sergani, presenting Islamic history, the Sira and civilisation from the Prophet's life to modern times in articles, studies, books, audio, video and maps, with biographies and information on today's Muslim countries, in Arabic and several other languages.

• Kurany Kerim. Türkmen dilinde (Directorate of the Mufti of Turkmenistan) 2006 Book Books and publishers

  A Turkmen rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an issued by the Directorate of the Mufti of Turkmenistan, first published in 2006 as the official translation, with the Arabic text in a parallel column, short sura introductions, bracketed interpretive insertions and explanations corresponding mainly to mainstream Sunni readings, and no translators named; printed in small numbers, it is found in the larger mosques, central libraries and Turkmen Islamic websites, and holds a near-monopoly among Turkmen readers at home and abroad.