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• Hadaf Production 2019 Organisation Organisations

  A Kenya-based Somali-language Islamic media production and distribution channel, created on YouTube on 4 November 2019, which publishes lectures, Friday sermons and podcasts by Somali scholars — among them Hussein Ali Jabuti, Mustafe Haji Ismail, Mohamed Idris and Mohamed Abdi Umal — for Somali-speaking audiences in Kenya and the diaspora. It counted about 521,000 subscribers by vidIQ's count as of 4 November 2026.

• SalamWeb (browser) 2019 Software Websites, apps, games and devices

  A Chromium-based web browser launched in January 2019 by Salam Web Technologies in Malaysia for Muslim users: it filtered what it deemed haram content through three layers, and carried prayer times, qibla, nearby mosques and the magazine SalamToday; it was the first browser certified by the private Amanie Shariah Supervisory Board, and Wikipedia now describes it as discontinued.

• TAJBank 2019 Company Enterprise, brands and finance Nigeria

  Nigeria's second non-interest bank, operating under Islamic banking principles and headquartered in Abuja; it received a regional licence from the Central Bank of Nigeria on 3 July 2019 and opened on 2 December 2019.

• Aisha Lemu 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  British author and religious educator, born at Poole, Dorset, in 1940 as Bridget Honey. She converted to Islam in 1961 while studying at SOAS in London, married the Nigerian scholar Ahmed Lemu in 1968 and moved to Nigeria, where she taught at Kano, Sokoto and Minna, co-founded the Islamic Educational Trust with her husband, and in 1985 founded the Federation of Muslim Women's Associations of Nigeria, serving as its first national Amirah. She wrote textbooks and many works on Islamic education and women in Islam. She died at Minna on 5 January 2019.

• Beji Caid Essebsi 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Mohamed Beji Caid Essebsi (1926–2019) was a Tunisian lawyer and politician whose career ran from Bourguiba's era to after the 2011 revolution: he was foreign minister and speaker of parliament, then prime minister in 2011, founded the Nidaa Tounes party and won the 2014 election to become president of Tunisia, dying in office on 25 July 2019.

• B. J. Habibie 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indonesian aeronautical engineer and statesman, born at Parepare in South Sulawesi in 1936. He built Indonesia's aircraft industry, served twenty years as minister of research and technology, and as the country's third president (1998-1999) opened the democratic reform era and ended the occupation of East Timor. He died at Jakarta in 2019.

• Eka Tjipta Widjaja 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Eka Tjipta Widjaja (born Oei Ek Tjong on 27 February 1921 in Quanzhou, China; died 26 January 2019 in Jakarta) was an Indonesian businessman of Chinese descent, founder of the Sinar Mas Group; he migrated to Makassar as a child and sold candy from a bicycle, traded copra, founded CV Sinar Mas in Surabaya in 1962, the Tjiwi Kimia paper mill in 1972 and Bank Internasional Indonesia in 1982, and funded thousands of scholarships through his foundation.

• Fazle Hasan Abed 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Founder of BRAC (27 April 1936 – 20 December 2019). A former Shell Oil finance executive, he sold his London flat after the 1971 Liberation War and founded BRAC in 1972, building it into one of the world's largest development organisations, working in education, health, microfinance and human rights across Asia and Africa. Knighted (KCMG) in 2010, he received among many honours the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1980), the World Food Prize (2015) and the Yidan Prize (2019).

• Hussain Muhammad Ershad 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi military officer and politician (1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1982 and served as president of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990; under his government a 1988 constitutional amendment made Islam the state religion. He founded the Jatiya Party and chaired it until his death, and was elected to parliament for Rangpur-3 at every general election from 1991 to 2018, remaining a central figure in Bangladeshi politics for three decades after a mass uprising forced his resignation in 1990.

• Maimun Zubair 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Maimun Zubair, the shaykh of Sarang pesantren in Indonesia; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Mehmed Şevket Eygi 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Mehmed Şevket Eygi (7 February 1933 – 12 July 2019) was a Turkish journalist, columnist and publisher. He brought out the magazine İslam in 1957 and the daily Bugün in 1966, whose pages carried his February 1969 call that preceded the 'Bloody Sunday' attack; after years abroad he wrote his column in Millî Gazete from 1991 until his death. Academic studies and German official reports document his propagation of antisemitic conspiracy theories and his Holocaust denial; he was also known for his professed defence of the Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jama'a.

• Mohamed Morsi 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Mohamed Morsi (1951–2019) was an Egyptian engineer, university professor and Muslim Brotherhood politician who chaired the Freedom and Justice Party and won the 2012 presidential election, becoming Egypt's first democratically elected civilian president. He ruled for one year until the military removed him in July 2013; he was tried and imprisoned, and died during a court session in Cairo on 17 June 2019.

• Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad al-Mukhtar al-Shinqiti, the jurist and Council of Senior Scholars member; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Sibghatullah Mojaddedi 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Afghan politician and mujahideen leader, from Kabul's Mojaddedi family of religious scholars. He studied Islamic law at al-Azhar and taught at Kabul University, founded the Afghan National Liberation Front in 1979 and was the first to call for jihad against the communist regime, then served as interim president of Afghanistan from April to June 1992 after the fall of Najibullah's government. He chaired the 2003 loya jirga and later the upper house, and died at Kabul in 2019.

• Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 2019 Figures of the last fifty years

  Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936–2019) was a Tunisian officer and politician who rose through the security services and the army, became minister of the interior and then prime minister, and succeeded Bourguiba as president of Tunisia on 7 November 1987, ruling for some twenty-four years until the January 2011 revolution drove him to flee to Saudi Arabia. He was tried in absentia in Tunisia, died at Jeddah in 2019 and was buried at al-Baqi in Medina.

• Adam 2019 Film Films BelgiumFranceMorocco

  Adam.

• The Cave 2019 Documentary Films GermanyDenmarkFrance

  The Cave.

• The Perfect Candidate 2019 Film Films GermanySaudi Arabia

  Haifaa al-Mansour's film about a Saudi doctor who runs for a municipal council seat in a conservative town.

• The Unknown Saint 2019 Film Films FranceMorocco

  Alaa Eddine Aljem's Moroccan comedy about a thief who buries his loot in a fake grave that becomes a popular shrine — a wry look at folk religiosity.

• Aladdin 2019 Film Films United KingdomUnited States

  Aladdin.

• Alif 2019 Series Series and programmes Pakistan

  The Pakistani series pairing a famous filmmaker with a young Qur'an memoriser — contemporary Pakistani TV's most-discussed treatment of art, faith and the soul.

• You Will Die at Twenty 2019 Film Films GermanyEgyptFrance

  You Will Die at Twenty.

• Atlantics 2019 Film Films BelgiumGermanyFrance

  Atlantics.

• Papicha 2019 Film Films BelgiumAlgeriaFrance

  Papicha.

• Gully Boy 2019 Film Films India

  Gully Boy.

• Hala 2019 Film Films United States

  Film about a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager finding herself between a Muslim home and an American world; an Apple release.

• A Regular Woman 2019 Film Films Germany

  A Regular Woman.

• It Must Be Heaven 2019 Film Films CanadaGermanyFrance

  Elia Suleiman's film of travels between Palestine, Paris and New York; a near-silent visual comedy on Palestinian identity.

• One Night in Al-Aqsa 2019 Documentary Films United Kingdom

  Abrar Hussain's documentary filmed on Laylat al-Qadr inside al-Aqsa — following Palestinian worshippers, guardians and workers through the holiest night of the year.

• For Sama 2019 Documentary Films United KingdomSyria

  Waad al-Kateab's documentary filmed in besieged Aleppo addressed to her daughter Sama; a human witness of the Syrian war, Oscar-nominated.

• Kingdoms of Fire 2019 Series Series and programmes United Arab EmiratesEgyptSaudi Arabia

  Kingdoms of Fire.

• Mosul 2019 Film Films United States

  The Russo brothers' production on the Iraqi SWAT unit in the battle to retake Mosul from ISIS; starring Suhail Dabbach.

• Nussa 2019 Series Series and programmes Indonesia

  The Indonesian animated children's series about Nussa and his sister Rarra learning Islamic values — the most-watched Islamic children's animation worldwide on YouTube.

• Kuruluş: Osman 2019 Series Series and programmes Türkiye

  The sequel series to Ertuğrul, following Osman I and the founding of the Ottoman state — among the most-watched Turkish historical series worldwide.

• Ramy 2019 Series Series and programmes United States

  Ramy Youssef's Hulu comedy-drama about an Egyptian-American torn between faith and appetite in New Jersey — the first major US series led by a Muslim character; Golden Globe winner.

• The Swallows of Kabul 2019 Animation Films SwitzerlandFranceLuxembourg

  The Swallows of Kabul.

• Zindagi Tamasha 2019 Film Films Pakistan

  A Pakistani film about a devout naat-reciter shunned after a wedding video of him dancing goes viral — delayed by religious protest, then Pakistan's Oscar submission.

• The Ornament of the World 2019 Documentary Films United States

  Michael Schwarz's PBS documentary based on Maria Rosa Menocal's book on eight centuries of convivencia in medieval al-Andalus.

• Labbaik VR (virtual-reality Hajj simulator) 2018 App Websites, apps, games and devices Pakistan

  A Pakistani virtual-reality Hajj and Umrah simulator app by a Karachi company, showing the holy sites of Mecca and Medina in 360 degrees from exact measurements and 80,000 8K photographs, to train pilgrims in the rites before they travel; the company told Arab News in July 2019 that it had trained 30,000 pilgrims with it through Hajj operators, and calls it 'the world's first virtual reality Hajj and Umrah simulator'.

• Islam360 2009 App Websites, apps, games and devices Pakistan

  A Karachi app for searching the Qur'an and hadith by word, verse and subject, with recitations, translations, tafsir, prayer times and the qibla, in Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and Romanised Urdu; it began as a desktop program, 'Search Quran', made by Zahid Hussain Chhipa in 2009, then became a free app funded by advertising and donors, published on Google Play by the Islam360 Foundation Trust.

• Dubai International Holy Quran Award 1997 Competition Awards and competitions

  An annual international award and competition for memorising the Qur'an in Dubai, launched in 1418 AH (1997) by order of Muhammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum; it runs an international competition for men, another for women and local competitions, honours an Islamic Personality of the Year, and publishes books in Qur'anic studies.

• Screen Awards 1995 Prize Awards and competitions India

  An annual Indian film-award ceremony launched by Screen magazine of the Indian Express Group in 1995, its winners chosen by industry insiders; it continued under Star India after Star acquired the magazine in 2015, until the ceremony of 8 December 2019. A. R. Rahman's 'Khwaja Mere Khwaja' was nominated there in 2009.

• Mohamed Salah 1992 SportFigures of the last fifty years Egypt

  Egyptian professional footballer, born in Nagrig, Gharbia, in 1992, who began at Al-Mokawloon, starred for Liverpool (2017–2026) winning the Champions League and Premier League titles and setting scoring records, captained Egypt at the 2026 World Cup, and plays for Trabzonspor in Türkiye since 2026. This record is the footballer, not the Tunisian scholar Mohamed Salah Ben Mrad, who has his own record in the museum.