Islamic Universities

This issue came to the fore after the Islamic University of Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta issued a letter on Feb. 20 revealing its plan to make students who wear the headscarf and face veil attend a counseling program to prevent radicalism on campus, as extremism grows in the country. According to Yudian ...

The State Islamic University in Yogyakarta city, on Java island, said it had 41 students using the full veil, or burqa, who would be offered counselling sessions and ultimately be asked to take off the veil if they wanted to graduate. The Islamic Defenders Front, a conservative group that campaigns against ...

Islamic universities are not quite many in Nigeria but there are two or three schools built on Islamic faith that stand out. Al-Hikmah University in Kwara state, Crescent University in Ogun and Al-Qalam University in Katsina are three prominent Islamic tertiary institutions in Nigeria. These schools like their ...

An Indonesian state Islamic university faced criticism this week after it barred female students from wearing full-face veils. University officials say the veils were banned because of fears over the spread of extremist ideology at the school. Many Muslim groups and activists object to the ban. They say the ...

JAKARTA • An Indonesian state Islamic university faced criticism from Muslim groups and activists yesterday after it banned female students from wearing full-face veils, citing fears over the spread of radical ideology on the campus. The Islamic Defenders Front, a conservative group, said the State Islamic ...

An Islamic university in Indonesia has become the latest, and most unlikely, authority to ban the burqa, citing fears of growing radicalism on campus. The State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, on the island of Java, faced a backlash from Islamist groups Wednesday after it announced a ban on wearing the ...

Various Islamic universities have been established in Central Asian countries, with new institutions opening sporadically over the past five decades in Uzbekistan, ... National level training centres for theological education in other Central Asian states include Kyrgyzstan Islamic University in Bishkek (1971), ...

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Mar, 2018 ):President, International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) Saturday called on Meer Sadiq Khan Sanjrani , Chairman senate and felicitated him on being elected as Chairman of the upper house. IIUI President expressed the hope that under ...

ISLAMABAD: A dedicated and expanded day-care centre will be built in IIUI women campus soon to take care of the children of staff and faculty and also the scholars studying in the varsity. International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) President Dr Ahmed Yousif Al-Draiweesh said this after administering ...

An Islamic university in Indonesia has faced a backlash after banning female students from wearing the full-face veil on campus. The Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta, Java, said that the move had been made as a preventative measure against the spread of radical ideology among ...