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• Tarteel (app) 2020 App Websites, apps, games and devices

  A Qur'an app that listens to a reader's recitation and corrects mistakes with AI; it began as a project in 2018, collected more than 80,000 recitation recordings, joined MIT's Sandbox accelerator in autumn 2019, and launched as an app on iOS and Android on 9 January 2020 after acquiring the Iqra app; it shows 10M+ downloads on Google Play.

• Abderrahmane Youssoufi 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Moroccan politician, lawyer and human-rights activist, prime minister of Morocco from 4 February 1998 to 9 October 2002, leading the alternance government under Hassan II and Mohammed VI, and leader of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces from 1992 to 2003. Born at Tangier in 1924, he took part in the national movement and the Army of Liberation, lived fifteen years in exile in Paris, co-founded the Arab Organization for Human Rights in 1983, and died at Casablanca in 2020.

• Ebrahim Alkazi 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian theatre director and drama teacher (1925–2020), son of a Saudi father from Unaizah and a Kuwaiti mother, who trained at RADA in London and as director of the National School of Drama in New Delhi (1962–1977) transformed modern Indian theatre, staging more than fifty plays.

• Hawa Abdi 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Somali physician and human rights activist (17 May 1947 – 5 August 2020), one of Somalia's first female obstetricians and gynaecologists, who also earned a law degree. In 1983 she founded a one-room clinic on family land that grew into a 400-bed hospital and a compound sheltering the displaced; at the height of the 2011 drought her foundation's camp housed some 90,000 people. She faced down armed militants who besieged the compound and refused to close it, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, and died in Mogadishu in 2020. She was known as Mama Hawa.

• Hosni Mubarak 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Muhammad Hosni Mubarak (4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian officer and politician who commanded the air force and served as Anwar Sadat's vice president, then ruled Egypt as president from Sadat's assassination in 1981 for almost thirty years under emergency law, until the January 2011 revolution forced him out. He was tried and imprisoned, released in 2017, and died in Cairo in 2020; he was buried in Heliopolis after a military funeral.

• Irrfan Khan 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian actor (1967–2020), born Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan at Tonk and trained at the National School of Drama (1984), who broke through internationally with The Warrior (2001) and starred in Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi and The Lunchbox; he received the Padma Shri in 2011 and died at Mumbai in 2020.

• Jamilur Reza Choudhury 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bangladeshi civil engineer and academic, born in Sylhet in 1943 and died in Dhaka in 2020. A professor of structural engineering at BUET for decades, he was the first vice-chancellor of BRAC University and vice-chancellor of the University of Asia Pacific until his death, served as an adviser to the 1996 caretaker government, and was named a National Professor in 2018.

• Khadim Hussain Rizvi 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Pakistani Islamic scholar and preacher (22 May 1966 – 19 November 2020), founder and first ameer of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan, known for his uncompromising defence of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, the 2017 Faizabad sit-in and the 2018 Asia Bibi protests. Although he died in 2020, his official archive YouTube channel still publishes his recordings and counted some 1.2 million subscribers in November 2026.

• Mahmoud Jibril 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Libyan politician (1952–2020), a strategic-planning specialist trained at Cairo and Pittsburgh. He headed Libya's National Planning Council and National Economic Development Board (2007–2011), then chaired the National Transitional Council's executive board as interim prime minister during the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime (2011), and founded and led the National Forces Alliance until his death in Cairo.

• Mohamed Mahmoud al-Tablawi 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Egyptian Qur'an reciter (1934–2020) who began reciting at evening gatherings at twelve, recited at al-Azhar and at state ceremonies, judged international competitions and headed the Egyptian Syndicate of Quran Reciters from 2011 until his death on 12 Ramadan 1441.

• Moussa Traoré 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malian officer and politician (1936–2020) from Kayes who led the 1968 coup that overthrew Modibo Keïta and ruled Mali as president (1968–1991) until protests and a coup removed him in 1991; he was tried and twice sentenced to death, the sentences were commuted, and President Konaré pardoned him in 2002 shortly before leaving office. He died in Bamako on 15 September 2020.

• Mufti Muhammad Naeem 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Mufti Muhammad Naeem, the founder of Jamia Binoria in Karachi; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Muhammad Abu Khubzah 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Abu Khubzah, the Moroccan hadith scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Muhammad Jabir Qasmi 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Muhammad Jabir Qasmi, the Indian Deobandi scholar; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Naazim Richardson 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  American boxing trainer from Philadelphia (1965–2020). He trained Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley, and is remembered for exposing Antonio Margarito's plaster-loaded hand wraps in 2009 before the Mosley fight. The English Wikipedia article describes him as a devout Muslim, known as 'Brother' Naazim.

• Nur al-Din Itr 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Nur al-Din Itr, the Damascene hadith scholar and teacher; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Qaboos bin Said 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sultan of Oman from 23 July 1970 until his death in 2020, the longest-serving leader in the Middle East and the Arab world at his death. Born at Salalah in 1940, the only son of Said bin Taimur, he graduated from Sandhurst, served briefly in the British Army, then overthrew his father in 1970 and founded the unified Sultanate of Oman, ending its isolation and leading its renaissance: schools, hospitals and infrastructure, the abolition of slavery, the end of the Dhofar rebellion, and the 1996 constitution, with a neutral foreign policy that made Oman a regional mediator. He had no children; his cousin Haitham bin Tariq succeeded him under a sealed letter Qaboos had left. He died on 10 January 2020.

• Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (16 June 1929 – 29 September 2020) was Emir of Kuwait from January 2006 until his death. He held the Foreign Ministry for some forty years (1963–2003), becoming the dean of Kuwaiti diplomacy and a mediator in the region's disputes, then the premiership (2003–2006), and took the emirate after a brief succession crisis in which Saad Al-Abdullah abdicated on health grounds. The United Nations honoured him in 2014 as a humanitarian leader, and he mediated in the Gulf crisis of 2017.

• Saeb Erekat 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Saeb Erekat (28 April 1955 – 10 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and diplomat born in Abu Dis and educated in the United States and Britain. He was the Palestinians' chief negotiator with Israel from 1995, a minister in the Palestinian Authority, and secretary general of the PLO Executive Committee from 2015 until his death from COVID-19 in Jerusalem; he was buried in Jericho.

• Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Saeed Ahmad Palanpuri, the Darul Uloom Deoband scholar and author; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Shah Ahmad Shafi 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Shah Ahmad Shafi, the shaykh of Hathazari and founder of Bangladesh's Hefazat-e-Islam; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Talib Jauhari 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Talib Jauhari, the Pakistani Shia scholar and orator; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Walid al-Muallem 2020 Figures of the last fifty years

  Syrian diplomat and Ba'ath Party member, foreign minister of Syria from 2006 until his death in 2020 and deputy prime minister from 2012. He served as ambassador to the United States (1990–2000) and was the regime's diplomatic face during the civil war.

• Quo Vadis, Aida? 2020 Film Films AustriaBosnia & HerzegovinaFrance

  Quo Vadis, Aida?.

• The Milkmaid 2020 Film Films Nigeria

  The Milkmaid.

• Gaza mon amour 2020 Film Films GermanyFrancePalestinian Territories

  The Nasser brothers' film about an ageing Gaza fisherman who falls in love amid the blockade; Palestine's Oscar entry.

• Caliphate 2020 Series Series and programmes Sweden

  Swedish series about an extremist recruitment network inside Sweden and the women drawn in; a global Netflix hit.

• Limbo 2020 Film Films United Kingdom

  Quiet British comedy-drama about a Syrian refugee stranded on a Scottish island awaiting asylum; starring Amir El-Masry.

• 200 Meters 2020 Film Films ItalyJordanPalestinian Territories

  200 Meters.

• Raqs-e-Bismil 2020 Series Series and programmes Pakistan

  A Pakistani series about a religious family's son whose forbidden love teaches him the difference between inherited piety and true devotion — a modern hit.

• Rise of Empires: Ottoman 2020 Documentary series Series and programmes TürkiyeUnited States

  A Netflix docudrama series on Mehmed II's conquest of Constantinople and its aftermath, blending Turkish dramatic scenes with historians' commentary.

• Uyanış: Büyük Selçuklu 2020 Series Series and programmes Türkiye

  Turkish series on Sultan Malikshah's Seljuk era, Hasan-i Sabbah and the Assassins; part of the Turkish historical wave.

• Koran Sudrïn (the Mongolian translation of the Qur'an) 2020 Book Books and publishers

  A Mongolian rendering of the meanings of the Qur'an published by the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs in 2020 as a gift to the people of Mongolia, translated from the Arabic by Marhabagayin Salih, a teacher of Arabic, with Bezhzhegiyin Battogtoh as Islamic proofreader and Taukein Sultan as editor; the idea came from Mongolia's Kazakh Muslim minority, it has no notes beyond short bracketed insertions and an index of terms, and it is distributed free in large numbers.

• Ahmed Lemu 2014 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nigerian Muslim scholar, educationist and judge, born in the village of Lemu near Bida in Niger State in 1929 and died on 24 December 2020. He was educated at Lemu and Kano and then at SOAS, University of London; he taught Arabic and Islamic studies and rose through the education inspectorate, then became the first Sharia judge of the Sokoto Court of Appeal and Grand Khadi of the Niger State Sharia Court of Appeal. With his wife Aisha Lemu he founded the Islamic Educational Trust in 1969, and he received the King Faisal International Prize for service to Islam in 2014.

• Muslim Pro 2010 App Websites, apps, games and devices

  A prayer-times, adhan, qibla and Qur'an app published by Bitsmedia in Singapore, released on iOS in 2010 and on Android in 2011; it was acquired in 2017 by a Malaysian and a Singaporean investment firm, added the streaming service Qalbox in 2022, and the company says its downloads passed 190 million by Ramadan 2026. A Motherboard investigation of November 2020 found it sending location data to a broker that sold data to US military contractors, after which it said it would stop.