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• Canadian Islamic History Month 2007 Heritage month Heritage months and festivals

  October of every year in Canada, first established in 2007 to recognise, celebrate and reflect on the history, culture and contributions of Muslims in Canada; the Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia publishes its yearly campaign materials.

• Al Hilal Bank 2007 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Arab Emirates

  An Islamic bank in Abu Dhabi, established in 2007, offering Shari'ah-compliant retail banking and wealth management; ADCB Group acquired it in 2019.

• Digital Qur'an players (Iqra'a and similar devices) 2007 Device Websites, apps, games and devices Indonesia

  Electronic devices dedicated to showing the text of the Qur'an and playing recorded recitations in step with it, with translations, prayers, prayer times and the qibla; they spread above all in Indonesia, where Reuters reported in September 2007 that many were made by a South Korean company under the brand Iqra'a, priced from 900,000 to 1.9 million rupiah, before attention moved to smartphone apps.

• Gatehouse Bank 2007 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Kingdom

  A UK-regulated Islamic bank in London, founded in 2007, which operates according to Shariah principles and offers savings and home purchase plans as an alternative to conventional mortgages in England and Wales.

• Kube Publishing 2007 Publisher Books and publishers

  An independent British publishing house established in 2007 that publishes general-interest, academic and children's books on Islam and the Muslim experience, handles the imprint of the Islamic Foundation (established 1973), distributes for other Muslim publishers and wholesales mainstream publishers' titles to Muslim booksellers.

• Sabily (Linux distribution) 2007 Software Websites, apps, games and devices

  An Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed for Muslim users, first released as Ubuntu Muslim Edition in October 2007 and as Sabily from May 2009, its last release, 'Uhud', coming in December 2011; it shipped with Arabic support and Islamic software out of the box, among them the Qur'an study tool Zekr, the prayer-times program Minbar, a Hijri calendar and a zakat calculator.

• Aden Adde 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Somali politician (1908–2007) from Beledweyne, a leader of the Somali Youth League and speaker of the Legislative Assembly who became the first president of Somalia at independence (1 July 1960 – 1967), then lost the 1967 election and peacefully handed power to his elected successor Abdirashid Ali Shermarke — the first African president to give up office voluntarily after an electoral defeat — and died in Nairobi aged 98.

• Badar Miandad 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani qawwal (1962–2007) of a qawwal family of Pakpattan, cousin and brother-in-law of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who began in 1975, was among Pakistan's best-known qawwals by the mid-1980s, scored Indian and Pakistani films, was known for 'Dam Dam Hussain Maula Hussain' and 'Ganj Shakar Walian Da Raja', and experimented with qawwali fusion.

• Benazir Bhutto 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani politician and writer (1953–2007), the first woman elected to head the government of a Muslim-majority country. She inherited the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party from her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and served two terms as Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990 and 1993–1996), enduring prison, exile and corruption proceedings, before returning from exile in 2007 and being assassinated at an election rally in Rawalpindi on 27 December 2007.

• Ja'afar Mahmud Adam 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian scholar (1960–2007) from Daura who studied at the Islamic University of Madinah. A member of the Izala Society and one of northern Nigeria's best-known preachers, he was famed for his annual Ramadan tafsir in Maiduguri and his widely distributed recorded lessons. He was shot dead during the dawn prayer in his Kano mosque on 13 April 2007.

• Mintimer Shaimiev 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Russian politician from Tatarstan (born 1937), first President of the Republic of Tatarstan (1991–2010), who led its declaration of sovereignty (1990), rebuilt mosques destroyed in earlier eras and promoted the revival of Islamic culture there; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (2007) and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for intercultural dialogue (2017).

• Ousmane Sembène 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese writer and film director, born at Ziguinchor in 1923. He worked as a fisherman, a mechanic, a Marseille docker and a trade unionist before becoming a leading francophone African novelist and the founding figure of African cinema, with films such as Black Girl (1966), Mandabi (1968) and Moolaadé (2004); he died at Dakar in 2007.

• Serigne Saliou Mbacké 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Senegalese scholar (1915-2007), the last surviving son of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba and fifth caliph of the Mourides from 1990 until his death. He founded hundreds of religious schools (daaras) whose students work the fields, ran a vast agricultural project at Khelcom, and continued the renovation of the Great Mosque of Touba.

• Zaghloul El-Naggar 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian geologist and preacher (1933–2025) who graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Science, took his doctorate at the University of Wales in 1963, taught geology at several Arab universities, chaired the committee on scientific miracles of the Qur'an at Egypt's Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, became widely known for writing and lecturing on 'scientific miracles' in the Qur'an and Sunna, and died in Amman.

• Mohammad Zahir Shah 2007 Figures of the last fifty years

  The last king of Afghanistan, reigning from 8 November 1933 until his cousin Mohammad Daoud Khan deposed him in the coup of 17 July 1973. Born at Kabul in 1914, a son of King Mohammad Nadir Shah, he lived twenty-nine years in exile in Italy, returned to Afghanistan in 2002 and held the title Father of the Nation until his death at Kabul in 2007.

• The Kingdom 2007 Film Films GermanyUnited States

  The Kingdom.

• The Messiah 2007 Film Films Iran

  Nader Talebzadeh's Iranian film presenting the life of Jesus from the Islamic perspective, including the Muslim account of the crucifixion.

• The Edge of Heaven 2007 Film Films GermanyItalyTürkiye

  The Edge of Heaven.

• Prince Among Slaves 2007 Documentary Films United States

  Andrea Kalin's documentary on Abdul Rahman Ibrahima — the Fulani prince enslaved in Mississippi who won back his freedom — from Terry Alford's biography.

• Persepolis 2007 Animation Films FranceIran

  The French-Iranian animated film of Marjane Satrapi's childhood in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Iran — Oscar-nominated.

• Brick Lane 2007 Film Films United Kingdom

  Sarah Gavron's adaptation of Monica Ali's novel about a Bangladeshi Muslim wife in London's Brick Lane torn between duty and desire; filming drew community objections.

• Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame 2007 Film Films FranceIran

  Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame.

• A Jihad for Love 2007 Documentary Films United KingdomUnited States

  Parvez Sharma's documentary on gay Muslims and their relationship with their faith in twelve countries; controversial, screened at international festivals.

• In the Name of God 2007 Film Films Pakistan

  Shoaib Mansoor's Pakistani film about two musician brothers pulled apart by militancy and moderation after 9/11 — a major national debate on religion, music and forced marriage.

• Little Mosque on the Prairie 2007 Series Series and programmes Canada

  A Canadian sitcom about a small Muslim congregation in a Saskatchewan town — among the first Western comedies centred on ordinary Muslim characters.

• Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain 2007 TV film Films United States

  Gardner/UPF's PBS documentary on seven centuries of Muslim-Christian-Jewish coexistence in al-Andalus and its end.

• Arranged 2007 Film Films United States

  American film about the friendship between a veiled Muslim teacher and an Orthodox Jewish teacher in Brooklyn, both facing arranged marriages.

• Para Pencari Tuhan 2007 Series Series and programmes Indonesia

  Indonesia's long-running Ramadan series about a village mosque community navigating everyday crises and repentance.

• Caramel 2007 Film Films FranceLebanon

  Caramel.

• Rendition 2007 Film Films United States

  Rendition.

• The Band's Visit 2007 Film Films FranceIsraelUnited States

  The Band's Visit.

• A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007 Book Books and publishers

  Hosseini's novel of Mariam and Laila — thirty years of Afghan women's lives through civil war and Taliban rule.

• Corpus Coranicum 2007 Digital library Websites, apps, games and devices

  A digital research project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 2007 to 2024 that put online the sources for the history of the Qur'an: images and data of its earliest manuscripts, with radiocarbon dating of more than forty, a database of the readings, texts from the Qur'an's environment and a literary commentary; led by Angelika Neuwirth and Michael Marx, it has continued since 2025 in an association of its name.

• Darulifta-Deoband.com 2007 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A bilingual (Urdu and English) fatwa website run by the Online Fatwa Department of Darul Uloom Deoband, launched in 2007 after the department was set up in 2005; it held some thirty thousand selected fatwas in 2016, and in January 2022 India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights recommended blocking it; it was blocked on 7 February 2022.

• I Lovë My al-Quran (ILMA) 2007 Book Books and publishers

  An illustrated Indonesian children's Qur'an with translation and simplified interpretation, published by Pelangi Mizan in 2007, with a second edition in 2008 and a 2015 relaunch with educational games and a smart pen; the package comprises the mushaf in fifteen volumes and fifteen volumes of simplified interpretation and translation based on the Ministry of Religious Affairs translation, with a dictionary and audio, written mainly by Irfan Amalee with a team of over twenty scholars, endorsed by figures from Indonesia's main Islamic organisations, and discontinued after 2019.

• Islam21c (islam21c.com) 2007 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  A British Muslim website whose earliest archived capture, of 28 April 2007, carries the motto 'Changing World: Constant Islam'.

• Islamopedia Online 2007 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An English-language academic website founded in 2007 with a Carnegie grant within the Islam in the West Program at Harvard, directed by the scholar Jocelyne Cesari, offering a database of leading religious figures of the Muslim world and their positions and translations of news and religious opinions from Arabic, Urdu and Persian; it aggregated 44,000 entries from more than a hundred websites, and is now inactive.

• MuslimMatters (muslimmatters.org) 2007 Website Websites, apps, games and devices

  An English-language Muslim group blog on issues facing Muslims, especially in the West; its earliest archived capture, of 13 March 2007, describes it as 'Discourses in the Intellectual Traditions, Political Situation, and Social Ethics of Muslims'.

• The Meanings of the Noble Qur'an with Explanatory Notes (Taqi Usmani) 2007 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Muhammad Taqi Usmani, first published in 2007 by Maktaba Ma'ariful Quran in Karachi and in a luxury edition by Turath of London in 2020 as The Noble Qur'an: Meaning with Explanatory Notes; it grew out of the committee that translated his father Muhammad Shafi's tafsir Ma'ariful Qur'an into English, and carries an introduction on the history and interpretation of the Qur'an, sura introductions, notes drawn mainly from Deobandi scholarship, and a thematic index.

• Not Afraid to Stand Alone 2007 Album Music and nasheed

  The second album of the American hip-hop group Native Deen, released in November 2007 with twenty-one tracks using percussion only, plus a voice-only version; its themes include praise of God, the hardships and steadfastness of Muslim life, prayer, the hajj, the Prophet and the discrimination Muslims face in America, with guests including Isam Bachiri of Outlandish and Zain Bhikha.

• Something About Life 2007 Album Music and nasheed

  The English singer Hamza Robertson's debut album, released by Awakening on 3 July 2007 with nine songs in English and Arabic, blending the sounds of East and West; its songs include 'Our Creation', 'He Is One', 'Morning Prayer' and 'O Allah'.

• The Sublime Quran (Laleh Bakhtiar) 2007 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Iranian-American Laleh Bakhtiar, published in 2007, on what she called a concordance-based method resting on Arabic word roots, without notes or commentary, and using 'God' for the divine name; best known for her rendering of a verse of Surat al-Nisa' on the treatment of a wife, it met acclaim and criticism in almost equal measure, including Khaled Abou El Fadl's doubts about her Arabic, and Bakhtiar republished the text in several forms up to 2016; she died in 2020.

• 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.

• Khursheed Ahmad 1996 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani naat reciter (1956–2007) who sang thousands of naats in Urdu, Punjabi, Saraiki, Pashto and Sindhi, won PTV's first naat competition in 1978, became famous for 'Zameen-o-Zaman Tumhare Liye' and 'Yeh Sab Tumhara Karam Hai Aaqa', received the Pride of Performance in 1996 and was the first Pakistani naat khawan to recite around the world.

• Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque 1994 Mosque Built since 1976

  The largest mosque in the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi, built between 1994 and 2007 under the guidance of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who was buried in its courtyard in 2004, and inaugurated in December 2007; designed by the Syrian architect Yusef Abdelki, it has 82 domes and four minarets, holds more than 40,000 worshippers, and has a hand-knotted carpet of 5,627 square metres.