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• كلمة الأزهر في مجلس الأمن عن استراتيجيته في مواجهة الفكر المتطرف 2016 Conference Conferences and conventions

  Muhyi al-Din Afifi Ahmad, speaking for al-Azhar, addressed the UN Security Council in New York on al-Azhar's strategy against extremist thought; the session was chaired by Egypt's foreign minister while Egypt chaired the council's counter-terrorism committee (p. 95). The author holds that extremism stays in the realm of thought, and becomes terrorism when it is tied to physical violence, takfir or the threat of violence (p. 99). He lists al-Azhar's work: online rebuttal of extremist ideas, training courses for preachers, an online observatory answering Daesh's posts, and joint initiatives with the Council of Muslim Elders (p. 100-102).

• Holy Tune 2016 Organisation Organisations

  A Bangladeshi Islamic music record label and production company, the label of the cultural organisation Kalarab Shilpigosthi; established in 2016 and owned by the singer Muhammad Badruzzaman, its YouTube channel (@holytunebdofficial) is the country's largest Islamic label channel, with about 10.8 million subscribers by vidIQ's count read on 5 November 2026.

• Abbas Kiarostami 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iranian film director, screenwriter, poet and photographer, born in Tehran in 1940 and died in Paris in 2016. He founded the film department at the Kanoon institute and made Where Is the Friend's Home? (1987), the Koker trilogy, Close-Up (1990), Taste of Cherry (1997), which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), then filmed outside Iran for the first time with Certified Copy (2010) in Italy and Like Someone in Love (2012) in Japan; he is widely regarded as one of Iran's greatest and most influential filmmakers.

• Abdul Sattar Edhi 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Abdul Sattar Edhi (28 February 1928 – 8 July 2016) was a Pakistani humanitarian born at Bantva, Gujarat, into a Memon Muslim family, who migrated to Karachi after Partition and founded the Edhi Foundation, which runs the world's largest volunteer ambulance network together with shelters, orphanages and rehabilitation centres across Pakistan; he lived ascetically, took no salary from his foundation, and received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, among many honours.

• Ali Javan 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iranian-American physicist and inventor (1926–2016), born in Tehran and died in Los Angeles, who first proposed the gas laser and co-built its first working model — the helium–neon laser — at Bell Laboratories in 1960, the first continuously operating laser, and was a professor of physics at MIT.

• Boutros Boutros-Ghali 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali (14 November 1922 – 16 February 2016) was an Egyptian diplomat and academic born in Cairo to a Coptic family. He taught international law at Cairo University for thirty years, served as acting foreign minister around the Camp David negotiations, and became the sixth Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992–1996), author of An Agenda for Peace; the United States vetoed his second term. He then led the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (1997–2002).

• Halil İnalcık 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire, styled Seyhü'l-Müverrihin, dean of historians. Born in Istanbul in 1916 to a Crimean Tatar family, he taught at Ankara University (1940-1972), the University of Chicago (1972-1986) and Bilkent University, where he founded the history department. His social and economic studies of the classical-age Empire reshaped the field; he died at Ankara in 2016 and was buried in the Fatih Mosque cemetery in Istanbul.

• Junaid Jamshed 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani singer and preacher (1964–2016) who rose to fame as lead vocalist of Vital Signs and its patriotic hit 'Dil Dil Pakistan', then left music in 2004 to devote himself to preaching, religious nasheed and television, and died in a domestic plane crash in 2016.

• Muhammad Ali 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  American boxer and activist, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942. He won the world heavyweight championship three times (1964, 1974, 1978), converted to Islam in the 1960s and later moved to Sunni Islam in the 1970s, refused the Vietnam War draft and was stripped of his titles until the Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 1971, and died in 2016.

• Muhammad Ayyub 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saudi reciter and scholar of Rohingya (Arakan) origin (1952–2016), born in Mecca, imam of the Prophet's Mosque from 1990 to 1997 and again for Ramadan 2015, and a tafsir faculty member at the Islamic University of Madinah, famed for his moving recitation.

• Raghib Mustafa Ghalwash 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Qur'an reciter (1938–2016) from Birma in Gharbia who learned the Warsh reading at the Ahmadi institute in Tanta and was admitted as an Egyptian Radio reciter in 1962, aged 22, after worshippers at al-Hussein Mosque came to know him as a conscript giving the adhan and reciting there; he went on reciting the dawn Qur'an live from Egypt's great mosques.

• Zaha Hadid 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Iraqi-British architect, born in Baghdad in 1950 and died in 2016, who founded Zaha Hadid Architects in London and designed buildings around the world in her signature curving forms. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004, and was known as the 'Queen of Curves'.

• Zinatossadat Alevi Homayooni 2016 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Zinatossadat Alevi Homayooni, the Iranian Shia mujtahida; her entry is not yet checked on the page.

• The White Helmets 2016 Documentary Films United Kingdom

  Documentary on Syrian Civil Defence volunteers rescuing civilians under bombardment in Aleppo; won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short.

• The Sultan and the Saint 2016 Documentary Films United States

  UPF's docudrama, narrated by Jeremy Irons, on St Francis of Assisi's meeting with Sultan al-Kamil at Damietta in 1219 amid the Fifth Crusade.

• Ali and Nino 2016 Film Films AzerbaijanUnited Kingdom

  Adaptation of the famous novel: a Muslim Azerbaijani and a Georgian Christian in Baku on the eve of the Russian Revolution.

• Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim 2016 Film Films Egypt

  Egyptian indie film about a young man convinced his goat carries his dead lover's soul, journeying with his inventor friend; a resonant road comedy.

• Barakah Meets Barakah 2016 Film Films Saudi Arabia

  Mahmoud Sabbagh's debut — Saudi Arabia's first romantic comedy — about a municipal worker and a social-media celebrity in Jeddah; a gentle push at social boundaries.

• Layla M. 2016 Film Films Netherlands

  Layla M..

• Mawlana 2016 Film Films Egypt

  Egyptian film from Ibrahim Issa's novel about a famous TV preacher entangled in power and faith conflicts; starring Amr Saad.

• Mimosas 2016 Film Films SpainFranceMorocco

  Mimosas.

• Munafik 2016 Film Films Malaysia

  Munafik.

• Women of the Weeping River 2016 Film Films Philippines

  Women of the Weeping River.

• Knife in the Clear Water 2016 Film Films China

  Knife in the Clear Water.

• Barakah (Sami Yusuf album) 2016 Album Music and nasheed

  A studio album by Sami Yusuf released on 1 February 2016 by Andante Records with fourteen tracks and marketed as volume 1 of his Spiritique Collection; it includes devotional pieces such as 'Hamziyya', 'Ya Rasul Allah' and 'Taha' and the Turkish 'Ben Yürürüm Yane Yane', with videos for several of them.

• Sahih al-Bukhari Encyclopedia (website) 2016 Digital library Websites, apps, games and devices

  A website and digital library devoted to Sahih al-Bukhari and the books written on it, owned by the Ataat al-Ilm Foundation; work began in 2003, its first release came in early 2016 with about sixty books, the second at the end of 2017 with 120, and the third in early 2019; it links each hadith to its manuscripts, to branches of the Yunini recension and to the commentaries, and by its own count holds more than 145 books.

• One (Maher Zain album) 2016 Album Music and nasheed

  Maher Zain's third studio album, released by Awakening on 6 June 2016 after four years of work, in English, Arabic and Turkish editions; its title stands for one God, one humanity and one world, and it includes 'Peace Be Upon You', the Moroccan traditional 'Allah Ya Moulana' and 'I'm Alive' with Atif Aslam.

• The Clear Quran: A Thematic English Translation 2015 Book Books and publishers

  An English rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an by the Canadian–Egyptian scholar and imam Mustafa Khattab, published by the Book of Signs Foundation in Lombard, Illinois (2016 according to the Global Qur'an project, 2015 in the Wikipedia list), in contemporary Canadian English, arranged in thematic paragraphs with headers, a short introduction to each sura, moderate footnotes and half brackets for explanatory insertions; it became the default translation on quran.com in 2020, is distributed at a low price by Darussalam, and has grown into a whole series of editions.

• Forgive Me 2012 Album Music and nasheed

  Maher Zain's second studio album, released by Awakening on 1 April 2012 with fourteen songs and bonus tracks in Arabic, Turkish and Malay, including 'Freedom', 'Number One For Me' and 'So Soon', a song about orphans; it was certified multi-platinum in Malaysia and sold more than 100,000 copies.

• Thank You Allah 2009 Album Music and nasheed

  Maher Zain's debut studio album, released by Awakening Records in November 2009 with thirteen songs and two bonus tracks, mainly in English with versions in Arabic, French, Turkish, Urdu, Malay and Indonesian; it was certified multi-platinum in Malaysia and Indonesia, and songs such as 'Insha Allah' and 'Ya Nabi Salam Alayka' spread worldwide online.

• Ahmed Zewail 1989 Achievements and firstsFigures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian-American chemist, born in Damanhur in 1946, raised in Desouk and educated at Alexandria University. He founded femtochemistry and was known as the 'father of femtochemistry'; he received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry alone, the first Egyptian and Arab to win a Nobel Prize in a scientific field, founded the Zewail City of Science and Technology, and died in 2016.