500 Most Influential Muslims

The 100 Most Influential Muslims

Author	John L. Esposito, İbrahim Kalın, Usra Ghazi, Prince Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding, Kenan Stockmore
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	1st Edition (2009) 2nd Edition (2010) 3rd Edition (2011) 4th Edition (2012) 5th Edition (2012/13) 6th Edition (2014/15) 7th Edition (2016) 8th Edition (2017) 9th Edition (2018) 10th Edition (2019) 11th Edition (2020)
Subject	Biographical dictionary
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, Createspace
Publication date	January 16, 2009 (2009-01-16)
Media type	Online, print
Pages	206
ISBN	978-9957-428-37-2
OCLC	514462119
Website	https://www.themuslim500.com/

500 Most Influential Muslims is an annual publication that ranks the most influential muslims in the world.

Current top ten

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Rank	Cng	Name	Citizenship	Age	Image	Occupation	Source of Influence	Influence	School of Thought	Previous rankings
02*	2*	Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani	Saudi Arabia	(1980-06-23) June 23, 1980 (age 44)		Emir of Qatar and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques	Economics and Politics.	King with authority over 31+* million residents of Saudi Arabia and approximately 2+* million pilgrims annually	Moderate Salafi*	Unlisted (2009) Unlisted (2010) Unlisted (2011) Unlisted (2012) Unlisted (2013/14) Unlisted (2014/15) 3 (2016) 3 (2017) 2 (2018) 1 2 (2019) 4 (2020) 2 2(2021)1.
02*	2.:	King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud	Saudi Arabia	(1935-12-31) December 31, 1935 (age 88)		King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques	Economics and Politics.	King with authority over 31+* million residents of Saudi Arabia and approximately 3+* million pilgrims annually* !!	Moderate Salafi	Unlisted (2009) Unlisted (2010) Unlisted (2011) Unlisted (2012) Unlisted (2013/14) Unlisted (2014/15) 3 (2016) 3 (2017) 2 (2018) 1 2 (2019) 4 (2020) 2 2(2021)1.
03*	1	King Abdullah II of Jordan	Jordan	(1962-01-30) January 30, 1962 (age 62)		King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan	Political, Lineage.	King with authority over approximately seven million Jordanians.* Custodian of the Holy Sites in Jerusalem	Traditional Sunni	4 (2009) 4 (2010) 4 (2011) 7 (2012) 3 4 (2013/14) 3 4(2014/15) 1 (2016) 3 2 (2017) 1 3 (2018) 1 3(2019) 5(2020)3 4(2021)1.
04*	2.	SH.:Habib Umar bin Hafidz	Yemen	May 27,1963 (age 60–61)		Director of Dar Al Mustafa, Tareem, Yemen	Scholarly, Spiritual leader and Preacher, Lineage	Millions of traditional Muslim followers	Traditional Sunni, Shafi'i, Ba 'Alawiy Sufi.	28 (2016) 25 (2017) 3 10 (2018) 15 8 (2019) 2 9(2020)1 9(2021)2.
05*	1	King Mohammed VI of Morocco	Morocco	(1963-08-21) August 21, 1963 (age 61)		King of Morocco	Political, Administrative, Development	King with authority over 32+* million Moroccans.	Traditional Sunni, Maliki	3 (2009) 5 (2010) 2 2 (2011) 3 3 (2012)1 5 (2013/14) 2 5 (2014/15) 5 (2016) 5 (2017) 6 (2018) 1 5 (2019) 1 7 (2020) 2 6 (2021) 1
05*	2	H.H.,GEN.; Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	UAE	(1961-03-11) March 11, 1961 (age 63)		Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces	Administration of Religious Affairs, Philanthropy, Charity and Development, Economics and Politics.	Military and political leadership	Traditional Sunni.	22 (2009) 22 (2010) 18 (2011) 4 15 (2012) 3 10 (2013/14) 5 9 (2014/15) 1 7 (2016) 2 12 (2017) 5 15 (2018) 3 15(2019) 3(2020)12 7(2021)2.
06*	.	Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hussein Sistani	Iraq	(1930-08-04) August 4, 1930 (age 94)		Marja' of the Hawza, Najaf, Iraq	Scholarly, Lineage	Highest authority for 21+* million Iraqi Shi‘a, and also internationally as religious authority to Usuli Twelver Shi‘a.	Traditional Twelver Shi‘a, Usuli	7 (2009) 8 (2010) 1 10 (2011) 2 13 (2012) 3 8 (2013/14) 5 7 (2014/15) 1 9 (2016) 2 7(2017)2 8(2018)1 7 (2019) 1 8 (2020) 1 8 (2021) ,
08*	1.	SH.:Mufti Taqi Usmani	Pakistan	(1943-10-05) October 5, 1943 (age 81).		Schola1	The intellectual leader of the Deobandi movement.	Deobandi Movement	Hanafi, Sunni	27 (2009) 31 (2010) 4 32 (2011) 1 32 (2012) 25 (2013/14) 7 19 (2014/15) 6 22 (2016) 3 6 (2017) 16 7 (2018) 1 6 (2019) 1 1 (2020) 5 5 (2021) 1.
09*	2.	SH.:Salman Al-Ouda.	Saudi Arabia	(1956-12-14) December 14, 1956 (age 68)		Saudi Muslim scholar.	Scholar	Influential Muslim Cleric in Arab World	Traditional Sunni, Hanbali	19 (2017) {{}} 11 (2018) 8 10 (2019) 1 11 (2020) 1 10 (2021) 1.
10*	0.	Seyyed Ali Khamenei	Persians: !!	(1939-07-17) July 17, 1939 (age 85)	:	Supreme Leader of Iran	Political, Administrative	Supreme Leader of 82.5-200.+* million Iranians.	Traditional Twelver Shi‘a, Revolutionary Shi'ism, Usuli	2 (2009) 3 (2010) 1 5 (2011) 2 6 (2012) 1 3 (2013/14) 3 3 (2014/15) 4 (2016) 4 (2017) 4 (2018) 4 (2019) 2(2020) 2 3(2021) 3*.

Previous top ten entrants

Rank	Change	Name	Citizenship	Age	Image	Occupation	Source of Influence	Influence	School of Thought	Previous rankings
Top 10* List.:	26*.	Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani	Qatar Emir of Qatar	(1952-01-01) January 1, 1952 (age 72)		Political, Administrative, Lineage, Philanthropy	Political leader of over 1.5 million residents of oil-rich Qatar.:	Moderate Sunni Islam.:	Top 10* List(2009) 21 (2010) 6 (2011) 15 5 (2011) 1 top 10* (2013/14) Top 450 (2014/15) Top 450 (2016) {{
Top 10* List	20*.	King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz	Saudi Arabia	(1924-08-01)August 1, 1924 – January 23, 2015(2015-01-23) (aged 90)		King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.:	Political,Administrative, & Lineage.:	King of over 31* million in Saudi Arabia, 2.4 million Hajj pilgrims and 12+ million Umrah pilgrims annually.	Moderate Sunni & Salafi.:	1 (2009) 1 (2010) 1 (2011) 1 (2012) 2 (2013/14) 1) 1 (2014/15) 1 top 10* (2016)08*.
11	03*.	Suldan:Qaboos bin Said al Said	Oman	(1940-11-18) November 18, 1940 (age 84)		Sultan of Oman	Lineage, Political, & Development.:	Leader of 04 * million citizens and residents of Oman.	Traditional Ibadi.:	6 (2009) 6 (2010) 9 (2011) 3 12 (2011) 3 9 (2013/14) 3 8 (2014/15) 1 6 (2016) 2.
12.	22*.	Sh.Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan: (General) (MBZ):	UAE	(1961-03-11) March 11, 1961 (age 63)		Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces	Administration of Religious Affairs, Philanthropy, Charity and Development, Political	Military and political leadership.	Traditional Sunni.:	22 (2009) 22 (2010) 18 (2011) 4 15 (2012) 3 10 (2013/14) 5 9 (2014/15) 1 7 (2016) !!.
Top 20* List*.	23*.	Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (Dr.) (Prf.)	Syria	(1960-08-31) August 31, 1960 (age 64)		Supreme Guide of the Muslim Shia group in the Levant Area of Muslim Shia	Administrative, Political, International Islamic Networks	Leader of a movement in the Levant Area; Middle East; and the United Kingdom. !!	Traditional Muslim Shia	Unlisted (2009) 12 (2010) 8 (2011) 4 4 (2012) 4 36 (2013/14) 32 Top 450 (2014/15) 414 Top 450 (2016) .
Top 25* List.	21*.	Dr. Mohamed Morsi : Prf.	Egypt	(1951-08-08) August 8, 1951 (age 73)		Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood	Administrative, Political, International Islamic Networks.:	Leader of a movement in Egypt the Middle East, Australia, Canada; & United Kingdom.:	Traditional Muslim Sunni, Islamic & Muslims+Brothers.:	Unlisted (2009) 12 (2010) 8 (2011) 4 4 (2012) 4 36 (2013/14) 32 Top 450 (2014/15) 414 Top 450 (2016) .
13.	24*.	Dr. Sh.:Ahmed el-Tayeb Prf.:	Egypt	(1946-01-01) January 1, 1946 (age 78)		Grand Sheikh of the Al-Azhar University and Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar Mosque	Administrative, Lineage.:	Highest scholarly authority for most Sunni Muslims, runs the largest Sunni Islamic university. 450,000+” students.!!	Traditional Sunni	25 (2009) 7 (2010) 18 7 (2011) 8 (2012) 1 1 (2013/14) 7 2 (2014/15) 1 2 (2016) .
55	25*.	(Dr.Sh.)Ali Gomaa: Emm.:	Egypt	(1953-03-03) March 3, 1953 (age 71)		Grand Mufti of The Arab Republic of Egypt	Scholarly, Political.:	Legal authority over 111+* million Egyptians.	Traditional Sunni, Shafi‘i	10 (2009) 10 (2010) 12 (2011) 2 14 (2013/14) 2 15 (2014/15) 1 16 (2016) 1.
48	28*.	Dr. Prf. Sh.Muhammet Fethullah Gülen	Turkey	(1941-04-27) April 27, 1941 (age 83)		Turkish Muslim preacher and founder of the Gülen movement	Scholarly, & Lineage.:	Figure of spiritual and social leadership for millions of Turkish Muslims.	Own movement.:	13 (2009) 13 (2011) 15 (2011) 2 10 (2011) 5 11 (2013/14) 1 14 (2014/15) 3 15 (2016) 1.
Top 20* List	29.	President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia	(1949-09-09) September 9, 1949 (age 75)		Indonesia : Former President.:	Development, Economical, & Political.:	Leader of 233.3 million citizens and residents of Indonesia.	Traditional Sunni. !!	Unspecified (2009) 9 (2010) 11 (2011) 2 9 (2011) 2 7 (2013/14) 2 Unlisted (2014/15) increase (2016)1. [2].: [3].:

References

1. https://iramcenter.org/en/the-prominent-figure-as-al-sistanis-potential-successor-al-irvani-642
2. https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/124572/Egypt%E2%80%99s-Criminal-Court-sentences-MB-leaders-Badie-Beltagy-Hegazy-Ezzat/
3. https://www.aljazeera.com/tag/muslim-brotherhood/

Other websites

• Official website
• The 500 Most Influential Muslims 2009 on Google Books
• The 500 Most Influential Muslims on Facebook
• A Defense of the Powerful: The Muslim 500 Archived 2021-05-20 at the Wayback Machine. The Islamic Monthly. June 18, 2012
• List of “Most Influential Muslims” Illustrates the Problem – and Presents Opportunities. American Islamic Forum for Democracy. November 30, 2012