500 Most Influential Muslims

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

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/

Current top ten

Rank	Cng	Name	Citizenship	Age	Image	Occupation	Source of Influence	Influence	School of Thought	Previous rankings
01*	2	King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud	Saudi Arabia	(1935-12-31) December 31, 1935		King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques	Economics and Politics.	King with authority over 36+* 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*	1	King Abdullah II of Jordan	Jordan	(1962-01-30) January 30, 1962		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.
03*	1	King Mohammed VI of Morocco	Morocco	(1963-08-21) August 21, 1963		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
04*	2	H.H.,GEN.; Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	UAE	(1961-03-11) March 11, 1961		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.
05*	2.	Seyyed Ali Khamenei	Iran	(1939-07-17) July 17, 1939		Supreme Leader of Iran	Political, Administrative	Supreme Leader of 82.5+* 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) 3Template:Inrease.
06*	.	Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hussein Sistani	Iraq	(1930-08-04) August 4, 1930		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) ,
07*	.	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).
08*	2.	SH.:Mufti Taqi Usmani	Pakistan	(1943-10-05) October 5, 1943.		Scholar	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*	1.	SH.:Salman Al-Ouda.	Saudi Arabia	(1956-12-14) December 14, 1956		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.

Previous top ten entrants

Rank	Change	Name	Citizenship	Age	Image	Occupation	Source of Influence	Influence	School of Thought	Previous rankings
11	5	Qaboos bin Said al Said	Oman	(1940-11-18) November 18, 1940		Sultan of Oman	Lineage, Political, Development	Leader of 4 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.	5	H.H. General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	UAE	(1961-03-11) March 11, 1961		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) 2.
13.	1	Ahmed el-Tayeb	Egypt	(1946-01-01) January 1, 1946		Grand Sheikh of the Al-Azhar University and Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar Mosque	Administrative	Highest scholarly authority for most Sunni Muslims, runs the largest Sunni Islamic university. 400,000 students.	Traditional Sunni	25 (2009) 7 (2010) 18 7 (2011) 8 (2012) 1 1 (2013/14) 7 2 (2014/15) 1 2 (2016) .
31	1	Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi	Qatar	(1926-09-09) September 9, 1926		Head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars	Scholarly	Leading scholar for global Muslim Brotherhood movement, host of Ash-Shariah wal-Hayat on Al Jazeera. 40 million viewers.	Muslim Brotherhood, Sunni	9 (2009) 14 (2010) 5 13 (2011) 1 16 (2013/14) 3 31 (2014/15) 15 32 (2016) 1,
48	33	Muhammet Fethullah Gülen	Turkey	(1941-04-27) April 27, 1941		Turkish Muslim preacher and founder of the Gülen movement	Scholarly	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.
55	39	Sheikh Ali Gomaa	Egypt	(1953-03-03) March 3, 1953		Grand Mufti of The Arab Republic of Egypt	Scholarly, Political	Legal authority for 87 million Egyptians.	Traditional Sunni, Shafi‘i	10 (2009) 10 (2010) 12 (2011) 2 14 (2013/14) 2 15 (2014/15) 1 16 (2016) 1.
Top 450		Dr Mohammed Badie	Egypt	(1943-08-07) August 7, 1943		Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood	Administrative, Political, International Islamic Networks	Leader of a movement in Egypt the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom, and United States.	Traditional Sunni, Muslim Brothers	Unlisted (2009) 12 (2010) 8 (2011) 4 4 (2012) 4 36 (2013/14) 32 Top 450 (2014/15) 414 Top 450 (2016) .
Unlisted	450	Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani	Qatar	(1952-01-01) January 1, 1952		Emir of Qatar	Political, Administrative, Lineage, Philanthropy	Political leader of over 1.5 million residents of oil-rich Qatar.	Moderate Salafi	Unlisted (2009) 21 (2010) 6 (2011) 15 5 (2011) 1 Unlisted (2013/14) Top 450 (2014/15) Top 450 (2016) .
Unlisted		President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono	Indonesia	(1949-09-09) September 9, 1949		President of Indonesia	Political, Development	Leader of 233.5 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) Unlisted (2016),
Unlisted	Deceased	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 26 million in Saudi Arabia, 2.4 million Hajj pilgrims and 14 million Umrah pilgrims annually.	Moderate Salafi	1 (2009) 1 (2010) 1 (2011) 1 (2012) 2 (2013/14) 1) 1 (2014/15) 1 Unlisted (2016)

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