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• Dawat-e-Islami 2015 Organisation Organisations

  The official YouTube channel (@dawateislami) of Dawat-e-Islami, the Pakistani movement founded in Karachi in September 1981 with Ilyas Qadri as its main leader, which runs the Madani Channel television station; the channel counted about 1.15 million subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026.

• Muzz (formerly Muzmatch) 2015 App Websites, apps, games and devices

  A matchmaking and marriage app for Muslims founded by Shahzad Younas in London in 2015 as Muzmatch; it joined Y Combinator in 2017 and renamed itself Muzz in May 2022 after Match Group won a trademark case against it in a British court; it announced ten million members in 2024.

• Ziraat Katılım 2015 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Türkiye

  A Turkish public participation bank founded on 12 May 2015 and owned by the Turkey Wealth Fund, part of the Ziraat Finance Group, holding Islamic banking licences for profit-and-loss sharing, consumer finance and credit cards.

• Ahmad Barrin 2015 Figures of the last fifty years

  Blind Egyptian munshid and praise singer from Aswan (1939–2015), a graduate in theology from al-Azhar, who settled at al-Dayr near Esna and was known as a bearer of Upper Egyptian folk heritage — praise of the Prophet, the mawwal and stories of the prophets; uncle and partner of the munshid Muhammad al-Agouz, he also sang at Coptic nights and at the Virgin's mawlid in Asyut.

• A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 2015 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian aerospace scientist and the eleventh President of India (2002–2007), born in 1931 in Rameswaram into a poor Tamil Muslim family — his father a boat owner and imam of a local mosque — who delivered newspapers as a boy, then led ISRO's first satellite launch vehicle project, headed the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme that made him the 'Missile Man of India', played a pivotal role in the 1998 Pokhran-II nuclear tests, received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 1997, and died in 2015 while delivering a lecture in Shillong.

• Fatema Mernissi 2015 Figures of the last fifty years

  Moroccan sociologist and writer, born at Fez in 1940 and raised in her paternal grandmother's harem. Educated at Rabat, Paris and Brandeis University, she became a founding figure of Islamic feminism with books such as Beyond the Veil, The Veil and the Male Elite and The Forgotten Queens of Islam; she died at Rabat in 2015.

• Harith al-Dhari 2015 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Harith al-Dhari, Secretary-General of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Omar Sharif 2015 Figures of the last fifty years

  Omar Sharif (10 April 1932 – 10 July 2015), born Michel Yusef Dimitri Chalhoub in Alexandria, was an Egyptian actor of world fame; he began in Egyptian cinema in the early 1950s, rose internationally as Sherif Ali in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and in the title role of Doctor Zhivago (1965), and acted in over 100 films across fifty years.

• Syed Zahoor Qasim 2015 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian marine biologist and oceanographer who led India's first expedition to Antarctica in 1981 and guided the seven expeditions that followed; director of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (1971–1974), vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (1989–1991) and a member of India's Planning Commission (1991–1996); he received the Padma Shri (1974) and the Padma Bhushan (1982).

• Wahbah al-Zuhayli 2015 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian Islamic jurist and professor (1932–2015), born at Deir Atiyah and long chairman of Islamic jurisprudence at Damascus University's College of Sharia. He wrote more than 160 works, among them the comparative compendium al-Fiqh al-Islami wa Adillatuhu and the Tafsir al-Munir, and was a signatory of the Amman Message and A Common Word.

• Aligarh 2015 Film Films India

  Aligarh.

• Eye in the Sky 2015 Film Films CanadaUnited KingdomUnited States

  Eye in the Sky.

• Bajirao Mastani 2015 Film Films India

  Bajirao Mastani.

• Bilal: A New Breed of Hero 2015 Animation Films United Arab Emirates

  The Emirati animated feature on Bilal ibn Rabah, from enslavement to becoming Islam's first muezzin — the first animated feature of its scale on a Companion.

• Guru Bangsa: Tjokroaminoto 2015 Film Films Indonesia

  Guru Bangsa: Tjokroaminoto.

• Karbala 2015 Film Films BulgariaPoland

  Karbala.

• Muhammad: The Messenger of God 2015 Film Films Iran

  Majid Majidi's Iranian epic about the Prophet's childhood in Mecca; he is shown from behind and in silhouette, never his face. It was planned as the first part of a trilogy.

• Mustang 2015 Film Films GermanyFranceQatar

  Film about five Turkish sisters facing strict custom in a Black Sea village; Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Film.

• A Sinner in Mecca 2015 Documentary Films United States

  A Sinner in Mecca.

• He Named Me Malala 2015 Documentary Films United Arab EmiratesUnited States

  He Named Me Malala.

• 3000 Nights 2015 Film Films United Arab EmiratesFranceUnited Kingdom

  3000 Nights.

• The Idol 2015 Film Films United Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomNetherlands

  The Idol.

• Yunus Emre: The Journey of Love 2015 Series Series and programmes Türkiye

  A TRT series about the Sufi poet Yunus Emre and his apprenticeship under Taptuk Emre — one of few television dramas centred on a Sufi's life.

• Generoso Corano (Sheikh Othman) 2015 Book Books and publishers

  An Italian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Sheikh Othman of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fondi, completed on 19 September 2015 and first published that year, with a second edition in 2020 by the Conveying Islamic Message Society of Alexandria distributed free; in modern Italian on the Hafs reading, close to literal with a few footnotes, giving Arabic names in parentheses and mirroring the mushaf's 604 pages and markings; a letter attributed to al-Azhar printed at its end raised questions for the reviewer.

• Submission 2015 Book Books and publishers

  Houellebecq's 2015 novel imagining France under a moderate Islamist party — a cultural flashpoint, indexed neutrally.

• Muhammad: The Messenger of God (soundtrack) 2015 Album Music and nasheed

  The soundtrack of Majid Majidi's Iranian film Muhammad: The Messenger of God, about the Prophet's childhood, composed by A. R. Rahman with the Palestinian Le Trio Joubran and released by Sony DADC on 23 December 2015 with twenty tracks; Rahman worked on it for a year and a half, recording in India, Iran, Germany, France and Egypt with 200 musicians, and Movie Music UK named it one of the best Asian scores of 2015.

• The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary 2015 Book Books and publishers

  A new English translation of the Qur'an with extensive commentary, edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr as editor-in-chief with Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake and Joseph E. B. Lumbard as general editors and Mohammed Rustom as assistant editor, published in the United States by HarperOne in 2015 in 2,048 pages; ten years in the making, its notes gather the readings of many classical Sunni and Shia commentaries, and it adds essays on Qur'anic themes; Nasr made it a condition that the team be Muslims and his former students, and it was widely welcomed, with some reservations voiced.

• Tajdar-e-Haram (Atif Aslam, Coke Studio 2015) 2015 Song Music and nasheed

  The Pakistani singer Atif Aslam's rendition of the qawwali Tajdar-e-Haram, in praise of the Prophet, on the first episode of Coke Studio Pakistan's eighth season, released on 15 August 2015 as a tribute to the Sabri Brothers' classic performance; the first Pakistani music video to pass 100 million views on YouTube.

• Vishudda Qur'an Vivarthanam (Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi) 2015 Book Books and publishers

  A Malayalam rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi, co-founder of Darul Huda Islamic University in Kerala and its vice chancellor since 2009, begun in 2004 and published in one volume in 2015; it is the first Malayalam translation to set the verses, in their canonical order, in thematic paragraphs, with a long preface on the purposes of the Qur'an, commentary on the occasions of revelation and what he presents as its 'scientific miracles', and maps of the events of the Prophet's life.

• Zakir Naik 2013 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian preacher and physician, born in Bombay (Mumbai) in 1965. He founded and presides over the Islamic Research Foundation and founded the Peace TV satellite network in 2006, becoming known for English-language lectures and debates in comparative religion — more than 4,000 lectures, according to the sources. Since 2016 he has lived in Malaysia as a permanent resident; the Indian authorities accuse him of hate speech and money laundering, charges he denies.

• 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.