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• 2034 FIFA World Cup 2034 Tournament SportUpcoming Scheduled

  The 25th FIFA World Cup, to be hosted by Saudi Arabia after FIFA's confirmation on 11 December 2024 following an uncontested bidding process; the third tournament in Asia and the third in the Arab world, with its dates and final venues still to be announced.

• Halal Product Assurance Organizing Agency (BPJPH, Halal Indonesia) 2024 Certifier Enterprise, brands and finance Indonesia

  An Indonesian cabinet-level government agency that organises halal certification, spun off from the Ministry of Religious Affairs in 2024 to succeed the ministry's halal product assurance body; Haikal Hassan has led it since 22 October 2024.

• Ananda Krishnan 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ananda Krishnan (1 April 1938 – 28 November 2024) was a Malaysian entrepreneur born to Tamil parents, founder of the Usaha Tegas group; educated at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Business School, he moved from consultancy and oil ventures to build a telecommunications and media empire spanning Maxis, Astro and the MEASAT satellites, was at his death Malaysia's third-richest man with an estimated US$5.1 billion, and was known for shunning publicity and for educational giving through the Yu Cai Foundation.

• Bapsi Sidhwa 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Bapsi Sidhwa (1938–2024) was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and lived in the United States. Born in Karachi to a Parsi Zoroastrian family and raised in Lahore, she contracted polio at the age of two and lived with its effects all her life. She is best known for Ice-Candy-Man (1988; published in the United States as Cracking India, 1991), the Partition novel filmed by Deepa Mehta as Earth (1998); Mehta also filmed her novel Water (2006). She received Pakistan's Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 1991, was inducted into the Zoroastrian Hall of Fame in 2000, and died in Houston on 25 December 2024.

• Ebrahim Raisi 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Ebrahim Raisi (14 December 1960 – 19 May 2024) was an Iranian jurist and politician who served as president of Iran from 3 August 2021, succeeding Hassan Rouhani, until his death in a helicopter crash near Varzaqan. He had earlier been chief justice (2019–2021), a member of the Assembly of Experts and custodian of the Imam Reza shrine at Mashhad, where he was born and is buried.

• Hisham Kabbani 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Lebanese-American Sufi scholar and shaykh (28 January 1945 – 4 December 2024) of the Naqshbandi Haqqani order in the United States. Born in Beirut, he studied chemistry at the American University of Beirut and fiqh in Damascus, married the daughter of the order's guide Nazim Al-Haqqani and holds his ijaza to teach the order, moved to the United States in 1990 and founded the Islamic Supreme Council of America; he was known for his warnings against violent extremism, his fatwas and his many books.

• Mohammad al-Sammak 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Lebanese-born thinker, writer and journalist (born 1936 or 1939), secretary-general of the National Islamic-Christian Committee for Dialogue and of the Islamic Spiritual Summit in Lebanon, adviser to the Mufti of Lebanon and board member of the King Abdullah International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue; King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam (2024).

• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Turkish archaeologist and writer (1914–2024) specialising in Sumerian and Hittite civilisation, who lived to 110. Born at Bursa to Crimean Tatar parents, she studied Hittitology at Ankara University under refugee German scholars, then spent decades at Istanbul's Museum of the Ancient Orient cataloguing thousands of cuneiform tablets. She became famous for books tracing narratives of the Quran, the Torah and the Gospel to Sumerian antecedents, and for her secularist advocacy; tried in 2006 for inciting religious hatred over her headscarf thesis, she was acquitted. She died at Mersin aged 110.

• Nabil Elaraby 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Nabil Elaraby (15 March 1935 – 26 August 2024) was an Egyptian diplomat and jurist who studied law in Cairo and New York, represented Egypt at the United Nations, and sat on the International Court of Justice (2001–2006). After the 2011 revolution he served briefly as foreign minister, then as the seventh Secretary-General of the Arab League (2011–2016), succeeding Amr Moussa.

• Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Draft card for Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri, the Deobandi hadith master of Darul Uloom Deoband; his entry is not yet checked on the page.

• Toumani Diabaté 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Malian kora player and composer (10 August 1965 – 19 July 2024), from a long patrilineal line of kora players in a griot family whose oral tradition counts seventy generations before him. His album In the Heart of the Moon (2005) with Ali Farka Touré won a Grammy Award; he collaborated across flamenco, blues and jazz, and is among the players who introduced the kora to the world.

• Zakir Hussain 2024 Figures of the last fifty years

  Indian tabla maestro (1951–2024), eldest son of Alla Rakha, born in Bombay and based from the late 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area; a central figure of world music through Shakti and his collaborations across jazz and classical traditions, he received the Padma Vibhushan (2023) and won three Grammy Awards in 2024.

• No Other Land 2024 Documentary Films NorwayPalestinian Territories

  No Other Land.

• From Ground Zero 2024 Documentary Films United Arab EmiratesFrancePalestinian Territories

  From Ground Zero.

• Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı 2024 Series Series and programmes Türkiye

  Mehmed: Fetihler Sultanı.

• Nusuk 2022 App Websites, apps, games and devices

  A Saudi digital platform and mobile app launched by the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah on 26 September 2022 as the successor of the Eatmarna app, for Umrah permits, bookings to visit al-Rawda al-Sharifa, Hajj registration, Umrah visas, lodging and transport, in twenty-five languages; the ministry announced 30 million downloads in September 2025, and the minister said in March 2026 that it had passed 51 million users.

• Ali Hassan Mwinyi 2022 Figures of the last fifty years

  Tanzanian politician (1925–2024) who worked as a teacher and head teacher in Zanzibar for about two decades, then became president of Zanzibar in 1984 and the second president of Tanzania from 5 November 1985 to 23 November 1995, succeeding Julius Nyerere. He relaxed import restrictions, encouraged private enterprise and reached an agreement with the IMF in 1986, and the transition to multi-party politics began in his second term. He received the King Faisal Prize for Service to Islam in 2022 and died at Dar es Salaam in 2024.

• Al-Qur'an Adventure (alQosbah) 2020 Book Books and publishers

  An interactive Indonesian Qur'an from alQosbah, a Qur'an-only publisher founded in Indonesia in 2020 that has distributed over ten million copies; it combines the Ministry of Religious Affairs translation with thematic subheadings, a word-for-word translation based on Ibn Kathir's linguistic exegesis, QR codes on every page opening animated Qur'anic stories, 31 stories and 76 lessons supported by hadith, colour-coded tajwid and memorisation aids.

• Canadian Islamic History Month 2007 Heritage month Heritage months and festivals

  October of every year in Canada, first established in 2007 to recognise, celebrate and reflect on the history, culture and contributions of Muslims in Canada; the Office of the Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia publishes its yearly campaign materials.

• 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.

• 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.

• IslamQA (Islam Question & Answer) 1996 Platform Websites, apps, games and devices

  An online fatwa and question-and-answer website begun by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid in 1996 and run under his general supervision, counted among the first online fatwa services; it answers questions from Muslims and others in sixteen languages on the method of Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a, as it describes itself, and was blocked in Saudi Arabia in 2010 after fatwas were reserved to the Council of Senior Scholars.