These are President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, who is in the category of politics, chairman of the Caucasus Muslims Department Allahshukur Pashazade and chairman of DEVAMM, theologian and philosopher, Haji Ilgar Ibrahimoglu in the category science and education, Alim Gasimov in the category of culture and art.
Each name is accompanied with a short biographic reference.
For the first time the book '500 most influential Muslims' was published in 2009.