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• Museum of Islamic Art, Doha 2008 Museum Arts and culture

  The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, designed by I. M. Pei on an artificial island at one end of the Doha Corniche and opened by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad, on 22 November 2008; owned by Qatar Museums, it shows Islamic art from three continents across fourteen centuries and reopened after a renovation in October 2022.

• International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) 2008 Bank Enterprise, brands and finance Saudi Arabia

  A member of the Islamic Development Bank Group based in Jeddah, founded in 1429 AH / 2008 to develop trade among the member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; it provides Shariah-compliant trade finance to public and private entities.

• CrescentRating 2008 Travel Enterprise, brands and finance

  A Singapore-based research organisation on halal travel that publishes rankings, founded by Fazal Bahardeen in 2008; since 2015 it has published the Global Muslim Travel Index with Mastercard, and it launched the HalalTrip website in 2013.

• Dukhan Bank 2008 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Qatar

  A Sharia-compliant Qatari bank in Doha, formerly Barwa Bank, founded in 2008 and renamed Dukhan Bank in 2020 after its merger with International Bank of Qatar; it is the third-largest Islamic bank in Qatar and was listed in 2023.

• Gulf African Bank 2008 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Kenya

  A Kenyan commercial bank in Nairobi operating under an Islamic banking regime, which opened in 2008 as the second commercial bank in Kenya authorised for Sharia banking, with shareholders from the Gulf and Kenya and the International Finance Corporation.

• Madani Channel 2008 News site Media

  Madani Channel.

• Noor Bank 2008 Company Enterprise, brands and finance United Arab Emirates

  A Shari'a-compliant bank in Dubai, opened on 7 January 2008 as Noor Islamic Bank and renamed Noor Bank in 2014, which Dubai Islamic Bank acquired in December 2019.

• Premier Bank Kenya 2008 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Kenya

  A Shari'ah-compliant commercial bank in Nairobi, founded in 2007 as First Community Bank by private Muslim investors in Kuwait, Kenya and Tanzania, which opened on 1 June 2008 as the first fully fledged Shari'ah bank in Kenya.

• Abdul Hameed Khan Swati 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdul Hameed Khan Swati, the Pakistani scholar and imam; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Abdul Latif Chowdhury Fultali, the famous Bengali scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sixth King of Saudi Arabia (r. 2005–2015), the tenth son of King Abdulaziz, by Fahda bint Asi Al Shuraim. He was mayor of Mecca in 1961 and commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard from 1962, a post whose duties he transferred to his son in 2010; Crown Prince from 13 June 1982 and de facto ruler after King Fahd's 1995 stroke, he succeeded as king on 1 August 2005 and reigned until his death at Riyadh on 23 January 2015.

• Lansana Conté 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Guinean general and politician (1934–2008) from Moussayah Loumbaya near Dubréka, a member of the Susu people, who served in the French and Guinean armies and led the April 1984 coup after President Ahmed Sékou Touré's death, becoming Guinea's second president (1984–2008); he ruled first through a military committee and then under a formally multiparty system until he died in Conakry on 22 December 2008.

• Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Mohammad-Reza Tavassoli, the jurist and secretary of the Assembly of Experts; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Sufi Abu Taleb 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian legal scholar and politician (1925–2008), born at Tamiya in Faiyum Governorate. He graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Law in 1946 and took his doctorate at the University of Paris in 1957 with a thesis that won the university prize, taught the history of law and Roman law at Cairo University and served as its president (1975–1978), was elected to the People's Assembly in 1976 and became its Speaker (1978–1983) and chairman of its committee for the codification of Islamic Sharia rulings. After President Anwar Sadat's assassination on 6 October 1981 he assumed the duties of acting head of state under the constitution for eight days (6–14 October 1981), stepping aside for Hosni Mubarak. His books on Roman law and Islamic law include 'Appliance of the Islamic Law in Arabic Countries' (1974). He died in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 21 February 2008 while attending an al-Azhar alumni gathering. 'Sufi' is his given name, not a Sufi affiliation.

• Suharto 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian military officer and politician, born in 1921 at Kemusuk near Yogyakarta to Javanese Muslim parents. He rose through the army, took power in 1965–1967 and became Indonesia's second president, ruling under his 'New Order' until his resignation in 1998 during the Asian financial crisis; he died at Jakarta in 2008.

• Warith Deen Mohammed 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  American religious leader (1933–2008), son of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. He succeeded his father in 1975 and moved the movement toward mainstream Islam: he rejected the deification of its founder, introduced the Five Pillars, and admitted whites as fellow worshippers, renaming his community several times before it settled as the American Society of Muslims.

• Youssef Chahine 2008 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian film director, born in Alexandria in 1926 and died in Cairo in 2008. Active in Egyptian cinema from 1950 until his death, he directed Cairo Station (1958), The Land (1969) and his autobiographical Alexandria quartet, launched the career of Omar Sharif, and received the Cannes 50th Anniversary Award for lifetime achievement in 1997.

• Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2008 Film Films Indonesia

  The Indonesian phenomenon based on Habiburrahman El-Shirazy's novel about a pious Indonesian student at al-Azhar and his loves — it remade Indonesian cinema toward religious romance.

• Firaaq 2008 Film Films India

  Firaaq.

• Fitna 2008 Short film Films Netherlands

  Geert Wilders's short film juxtaposing Qur'anic verses with footage of violence; it prompted international condemnation and diplomatic protest. Indexed as a document of anti-Islam polemics, not endorsed.

• Hassan and Marcus 2008 Film Films Egypt

  Egyptian comedy with Adel Emam and Omar Sharif: a Muslim and a Copt each hiding in the other's faith; a film about national unity.

• Jodhaa Akbar 2008 Film Films India

  Jodhaa Akbar.

• Traitor 2008 Film Films United States

  Traitor.

• Muhammad: The Final Legacy 2008 Series Series and programmes Syria

  The Syrian series on the Banu Hashim from Abd al-Muttalib to the Prophet's mission; it answers the depiction question by showing the Prophet's trace, not his person.

• A Road to Mecca: The Journey of Muhammad Asad 2008 Documentary Films Austria

  Georg Misch's Austrian documentary retracing Leopold Weiss's transformation into Muhammad Asad — Vienna to Jerusalem to Mecca — through his book The Road to Mecca.

• Snow 2008 Film Films Bosnia & HerzegovinaGermanyFrance

  Snow.

• The Song of Sparrows 2008 Film Films Iran

  The Song of Sparrows.

• Prophet Joseph 2008 Series Series and programmes Iran

  A 45-episode Iranian series telling the complete story of the prophet Joseph; dubbed into dozens of languages and among Iran's most successful religious dramas.

• Azazeel 2008 Book Books and publishers

  Youssef Ziedan's IPAF-winning novel about a fifth-century Egyptian monk accompanying Nestorius — theological fiction that stirred church controversy.

• The Jewel of Medina 2008 Book Books and publishers

  Sherry Jones's novel about Aisha — Random House dropped it amid controversy before Beaufort published it; a case study in depicting the Prophet's household.

• Koranas (literatūrinių prasmių vertimas) (Sigitas Geda) 2008 Book Books and publishers

  The first complete translation of the Qur'an into Lithuanian, by the Lithuanian poet and translator Sigitas Geda, published in 2008 in 1,000 copies that sold quickly and based mainly on the Russian translations of Sablukov and Krachkovsky; criticised by Muslim activists and scholars for distorting Qur'anic terms, it was revised by the mufti of Lithuania, Romas Jakubauskas, and a revised edition appeared in 2010 with him named as second translator and the Muftiate's approval.

• The Textual Translation for The Qur'aan The Supreme (Abdulaziz AlMubarak) 2008 Book Books and publishers

  An English translation of the Qur'an by the Saudi Abdulaziz F. AlMubarak of al-Ahsa, first published in Beirut in 2008 and constantly revised since, on a strictly literal method that rejects translation by meaning: it follows the Arabic word by word, transliterates Arabic terms in its own system and marks grammar with superscript letters, with an introduction of nearly ninety pages; Johanna Pink finds the result impenetrable for readers.

• The Qur'an: A New Translation (Tarif Khalidi) 2008 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the historian Tarif Khalidi, professor of Islamic studies at the American University of Beirut, published in Penguin Classics in 2008 as the successor to N. J. Dawood's old Penguin translation; it tries to convey the Qur'an's rhythm and structure, setting narrative and legislative passages as prose and dramatic and metaphysical ones in verse form, without context notes, and Ziauddin Sardar called it a magnificent achievement while faulting its numbering and its lack of an index.

• BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2003 Prize Awards and competitions United Kingdom

  British world-music awards sponsored by BBC Radio 3 from 2003 to 2008, conceived by Ian Anderson, editor of fRoots, with winners chosen by a twelve-member jury; the BBC axed them in March 2009. Youssou N'Dour won the Critics Award in 2005, for the album Egypt.

• 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.