The following is a list of institutions that have an Islamic or Muslim identity or charter. One of the new institute is Islamic Educational Hub.

Historical institutions in continuous operations

Institutions founded before the colonial era and which are still in operation: *

Jamiatur Raza Jamiatur Raza is an Islamic seminary situated in Bareilly, India. It was established by Akhtar Raza Khan in 2000. The founders have evolved a plan to develop it into an Islamic university.

, Bareilly, UP, India * Darul Uloom Deoband * Jamia Ahmadiyya Sunnia Kamil Madrasa *

Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama (translated as, House of Knowledge and Assembly of Scholars University) is an Islamic seminary in Lucknow, India. It was established by the Nadwatul Ulama, a council of Muslim scholars, on 26 September 1898. This edu ...

University of Al-Qarawiyyin The University of al-Qarawiyyin ( ar, جامعة القرويين; ber, ⵜⴰⵙⴷⴰⵡⵉⵜ ⵏ ⵍⵇⴰⵕⴰⵡⵉⵢⵉⵏ; french: Université Al Quaraouiyine), also written Al-Karaouine or Al Quaraouiyine, is a university located in ...

, Morocco, the oldest existing, continually operating and the first degree awarding educational institution in the world according to

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. * Al-Azhar University, Cairo *

Al Jamiatul Ashrafia Al Jamiatul Ashrafia ( ur, , hi, अल जामियत-उल-अशरफ़िया) is a Barelvi Sunni school in India. It is located in Mubarakpur in a northern state of India, Uttar Pradesh. History It started off as a madrasa cal ...

, Azamgarh India *

Manzar-e-Islam Madrasa Manzar-e-Islam ( ur, مدرسہ منظر اسلام), also known as Jamia Razvia Manzar-e-Islam, is an Islamic seminary in India. It was founded in 1904 in Bareilly, India by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. It celebrated its hundredth annivers ...

, Bareilly city India * Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad *

Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad ( ar, المدرسة النظامية), one of the first nezamiyehs, was established in 1065. In July 1091, Nizam al-Mulk appointed the 33-year-old Al-Ghazali as a professor of the school. Offering free education, it has be ...

* Aliah University,

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fou ...

* Jamia Hashmia, Bijapur,

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Jamia Nizamia Jamia Nizamia more properly, Jami'ah Nizamiyyah, is one of the oldest Islamic seminaries of higher learning for Muslims located in Hyderabad, India. It is named after its founder- the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad. History It was founded by Shaykh ...

, HYD,

* Baqiyat Salihat Arabic College, Velloor, India *

Nizamiyya The Nezamiyeh ( fa, نظامیه) or Nizamiyyah ( ar, النظامیة) are a group of institutions of higher education established by Khwaja Nizam al-Mulk in the eleventh century in Iran. The name ''nizamiyyah'' derives from his name. Founded a ...

University of Ez-Zitouna Ez-Zitouna University ( ar, جامعة الزيتونة, french: Université Ez-Zitouna) is a public ancient university in Tunis, Tunisia. The university originates in the Al-Zaytuna Mosque, founded at the end of the 7th century or in the early 8 ...

, Tunis, Tunisia

Seminaries

Colonial era

Institutions of religious educations (most are classified as "

madrasa Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary instruction or higher learning. The word is variously transliterated '' ...

s", a term that means "school" or, literally, "place where lessons are given") founded during colonial era: *

, Hyderabad, India

Post-colonial era

Religious institutions (or madrasas) founded since the end of colonial rule in the respective countries: *

, Bareilly India *

Dar al-Mustafa Dar al-Mustafa is a Yemeni Islamic university based in Tarim, Hadhramaut. History In 1993, the Islamic seminary was founded by Habib Umar bin Hafiz. The Dar al-Mustafa campus was officially opened in May 1997 and incorporated as a center for tra ...

, Tarim, Yemen *

Darul Uloom Haqqania Darul Uloom Haqqania or Jamia Dar al-Ulum Haqqania ( ur, ) is an Islamic Seminary ( darul uloom or madrasa) in the town of Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, northwestern Pakistan. The seminary propagates the Hanafi Deobandi schoo ...

Akora Khattak Akora Khattak ( ps, اکوړه خټک , Urdu: اکوڑہ خٹک ) or Sarai Akora is a town in Jehangira tehsil of Nowshera District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It sits beside the Kabul River, which merges with the Indus River ...

, PAKISTAN * Darul 'Uloom Karachi, Korangi, Karachi, PAKISTAN * Jamia Binoria, S.I.T.E Industrial Area, Karachi, PAKISTAN *

Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia ( ur, , ''Jāmi‘ah ‘Ulūm-i Islāmīyah'' / , ''Jāmi‘atul-‘Ulūmul-Islāmīyah'') is an Islamic University in Banoori Town, Karachi, Pakistan. The university continues the tradition of the Darul Uloom system i ...

, Allama Binori Town, Karachi, PAKISTAN *

Darul Huda Islamic University Darul Huda Islamic University is an educational institute of higher religious learning located at Chemmad in Malappuram district, Kerala. It is equivalent to an unaided and non-affiliated Indian madrasa. Established in 1986 under the auspices o ...

Malappuram Malappuram (also Malapuram) () is a city in the Indian state of Kerala, spread over an area of including the surrounding suburban areas. The first municipality in the district formed in 1970, Malappuram serves as the administrative headquarter ...

* Umm al-Qura, Mecca *

Zaytuna Institute Zaytuna College (formerly the Zaytuna Institute) is a private liberal arts college in Berkeley, California. It is the first accredited Muslim undergraduate college in the United States and was founded in 2008 by Hamza Yusuf, Zaid Shakir and Hat ...

, Hayward, California, US

Non-seminaries

Colonial era

These are institutions founded during colonial era that are not religious seminaries. Most are universities with a broad charter for comprehensive education in the Muslim communities they serve. * Aligarh Muslim University * Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi * Jamia Osmania * Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Post-colonial era

Educational institutions founded since end of colonial rule that are not religious seminaries, but have an Islamic or Muslim identity or charter, or devoted to sciences and arts usually associated with Islamic or Muslim culture and history:

Afghanistan

Kabul University Kabul University (KU; prs, دانشگاه کابل, translit= Dāneshgāh-e-Kābul; ps, د کابل پوهنتون, translit=Da Kābul Pohantūn) is one of the major and oldest institutions of higher education in Afghanistan. It is in the 3rd ...

Algeria

* Emir Abdelkader University,

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Azerbaijan

Baku State University Baku State University (BSU) ( az, Bakı Dövlət Universiteti (BDU)) is a public university located in Baku, Azerbaijan. Established in 1919 by the Parliament of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the university started with faculties of history and ...

Bahrain

University of Bahrain The University of Bahrain ( ar, جامعة البحرين , informally Bahrain University, abbreviated as UOB) is the largest public university in the Kingdom of Bahrain with campuses in Sakhir, Isa Town and Manama, the university has more than ...

Arabian Gulf University Arabian Gulf University is a university in the city of Manama, in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It is accredited by the Ministry of Education, Bahrain, and governed by Gulf Cooperative Countries, and is a member of Federation of the Universities of t ...

Bangladesh

Islamic University of Technology Islamic University of Technology ( bn, ইসলামিক ইউনিভার্সিটি অব টেকনোলজি), commonly known as IUT, is an international university located in Gazipur, Bangladesh. IUT offers undergraduate ...

* Darul Ihsan University * Dhaka University *

Jahangirnagar University Jahangirnagar University ( JU) is a publicly funded university located in Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the only fully residential university in Bangladesh. It operated as a project until 1973, when the 'Jahangirnagar Muslim University Act' w ...

Khulna University Khulna University ( bn, খুলনা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a public university in Gollamari, Khulna, Bangladesh. It is near the river Moyur, beside the Sher e Bangla Road (Khulna-Satkhira highway). The academic progra ...

International Islamic University Chittagong The International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC) ( bn, আন্তর্জাতিক ইসলামী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় চট্টগ্রাম) is a private university in Bangladesh. It was founded in 199 ...

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* Manarat International University *

University of Rajshahi The University of Rajshahi, also known as Rajshahi University or RU ( bn, রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), is a public co-educational research university in Bangladesh situated near the northern Bangladeshi cit ...

Islamic Arabic University Islamic Arabic University ( bn, ইসলামি আরবি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) is a public university in Mohammadpur Thana of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It operates through a number of ''fazil'' (bachelor) and ''kamil'' (ma ...

* Bangladesh Islami University

Bosnia and Herzegovina

University of Sarajevo The University of Sarajevo ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a public university located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the largest ...

Burkina Faso

University of Ouagadougou Founded in 1974, the University of Ouagadougou (UO; french: Université de Ouagadougou) is in the area of Dagnöen Nord (pronounced dag-no-en noor) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was officially renamed in 2015 as l’Université Ouaga 1 Profes ...

Brunei Darussalam

Universiti Brunei Darussalam Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD; Jawi: ) is a national research university located in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It was established in 1985 and has since become the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curric ...

* Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University

Chad

University of N'Djamena The University of N'Djamena ( ar, جامعة انجامينا, french: Université de N'Djamena, UNDT) is the leading institution of higher education in Chad. It was created in 1971 as the University of Chad, and was renamed "University of N'Djam ...

Ivory Coast

University of Cocody A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, th ...

Egypt

* Al-Azhar University *

Assiut University Assiut University is a university located in Assiut, Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bri ...

Minia University Minia University (also spelled Minia) was established in Minia, in 1976 by virtue of Republican Decree No. (93), separating it from Assiut University. The campus is north of Minia. Its emblem is Nefertiti Bust. University logo The image of Qu ...

Suez Canal University The Suez Canal University is an Egyptian public university serving the Suez Canal region. Its faculties are located in the three governorates of the Suez Canal Region (Port Said, Ismailia & Suez). It was established in 1974. It is well-known for ...

* Helwan University *

Tanta University Tanta University is an Egyptian university in the city of Tanta, Al Gharbiyah governorate, Egypt. The university is under the direct scientific supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education. It was founded first in 1962 as a branch from the ...

Zagazig University Zagazig University ( ar, جامعة الزقازيق) is a public university located in the city of Zagazig, Egypt. Notable alumni *Hany Mohammed Diab – actress *Ayman Al-Hendy – academic, scientist *Muntaser Ibrahim – geneticist See also ...

Cairo University Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...

Mansoura University Mansoura University was founded in 1972 in Mansoura city, Egypt. It is in the middle of the Nile Delta. It is one of the biggest Egyptian universities and has contributed much to the cultural and scientific life in Mansoura and Egypt. History T ...

* Minufiya University * Ain Shams University *

Alexandria University Alexandria University ( ar, جامعة الإسكندرية) is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University (the name of which was later changed to Cairo University), becoming an indepen ...

Ghana

* Islamic University College, Ghana

Republic of Guinea

* University of Conakry * Julius Nyerere University of Kankan

Indonesia

Islamic University of Indonesia Islamic University of Indonesia (''Universitas Islam Indonesia'', abbreviated as UII) is a national private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It was established on 27 Rajab 1364 (Islamic calendar) or on 8 July 1945 as Islamic Higher School (' ...

* Muhammadiyah University of Magelang *

Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta ( Indonesian: Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Arabic: جامعة شريف هداية الله الإسلامية الحكومية جاكرتا) is a public university in I ...

* Bandung Islamic University *

Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta () (UMS) is one of 164 universities of Muhammadiyah (PTM) and one of the 1890 private higher educational institutions (PTS) in Indonesia. Charity business education is determined to create a campus that promotes ...

Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta ( id, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta; abbreviated as UMY) is a private university in Special Region of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta under affiliation of Muhammadiyah, the second largest Islamic organization in ...

* Sunan Kalijaga Islamic University *

YARSI University Universitas YARSI ( en, YARSI University) is a private Islamic university located in Cempaka Putih, Central Jakarta. History Universitas YARSI was established by the Islamic Hospital Foundation of Indonesia ( id, Yayasan Rumah Sakit Islam Indones ...

* Nahdlatul Ulama Islamic University

India

, Hyderabad, India * Aligarh Muslim University *

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

Al-Jame-atul-Islamia Al-Jame-atul Islamia is an Islamic seminary of Sunni- Barelvi Muslims in India. It is located in Raunahi, District. Faizabad, near Lucknow, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in India. History Al-Jame-atul-Islamia was founded in 1964 ...

, Raunahi *

Jamia Al Barkaat Aligarh Jamia Al-Barkaat is an Indian Islamic seminary of Barelvi movement of Sunni Muslims in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. It was established under the Al-Barkaat Educational Society run by Khanquah-e-Barkaatiya by Syed Ameen Mian Quadri in ...

Aligarh Aligarh (; formerly known as Allygarh, and Kol) is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Aligarh district, and lies northwest of state capital Lucknow and approximately southeast of the cap ...

Jamia Amjadia Rizvia Jamia Amjadia Rizvia is an Islamic seminary (Madrasa) of the Sunni denomination situated in Ghosi city in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.It was established by Mufti Ziaul Mustafa Azmi a north Indian Muhaddith and son of a 19th century Faqih ...

, Ghosi *

, Bareilly *

Jamia Hamdard Jamia Hamdard ( ur, ) is an institute of higher education deemed to be university located in New Delhi, India. It is a government-funded university. Established in 1989, it was formally inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India Shri R ...

* Jamia Millia Islamia * Jamia Markaz,

Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second l ...

* Manzar-e-Islam, Bareilly * Markaz Knowledge City,

* Ma'din Academy,

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

Iran

Iran University of Medical Sciences Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) ( fa, دانشگاه علوم پزشکی و خدمات بهداشتی درمانی ایران, ''Danushgah-e 'lum-e Pezeshki-ye vâ Xedâmat-e Behedashti-ye Dârmani-ye Iran'') is a high ranked medical u ...

Islamic Azad University The Islamic Azad University (IAU; fa, دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی, ''Dāneshgāh-e Āzād-e Eslāmi'') is a private university system headquartered in Tehran, Iran. It is one of the largest comprehensive systems of universities, colleg ...

* K. N. Toosi University of Technology * Payame Noor University (Distance Education) * Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman * Sharif University of Technology * Shiraz University * University of Tehran * Tarbiat Moallem University * Tehran University of Medical Sciences * Bu-Ali Sina University * Allameh Tabatabai University * Gorgan University * Ferdowsi University of Mashhad * University of Isfahan * Alzahra University * Amirkabir University of Technology * Isfahan University of Technology * Iran University of Science and Technology

Iraq

* University of Basrah * University of Technology, Iraq, University of Technology * University of Mosul * Baghdad University, University of Baghdad * Al Qadissiya University * Kufa University * Mustansiriyah University * Iraqi University, Iraqi University in Baghdad * University of Anbar * Babylon University

Ireland

* Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland

Jordan

* Al al-Bayt University * Al-Balqa` Applied University * Ajloun National Private University * Al-Ahliyya Amman University * Al-Hussein Bin Talal University * Al-Isra University * Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan * American University of Madaba * Applied Science Private University * German-Jordanian University * Hashemite University * Irbid National University * Jordan University of Science and Technology * Jerash Private University * Jadara University * Mutah University * Petra University * Philadelphia University (Jordan), Philadelphia University * Princess Sumaya University for Technology * Tafila Technical University * University of Jordan * World Islamic Sciences and Education University * Yarmouk University * Zarqa Private University

Kuwait

* Kuwait University

Kyrgyzstan

* International University of Kyrgyzstan

Lebanon

* Beirut Arab University * Lebanese University

Libya

* Al-Arab Medical University * University of Garyounis * Sebha University * Seventh of April University * Al-Tahadi University

Malaysia

* International Islamic University Malaysia * University of Science Malaysia * University of Malaya * Universiti Utara Malaysia * University of Technology, Malaysia * University Malaysia Sabah * Al-Madinah International University * Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah International Islamic University * Kolej Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Selangor, Selangor International Islamic University College * Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia

Morocco

* Chouaib Doukkali University * Mohammed V University at Agdal * Mohammed V University at Souissi * Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

Islamic Republic of Mauritania

* University of Nouakchott

Republic of Mozambique

* Eduardo Mondlane University

Netherlands

* Islamic University of Rotterdam

Niger

* Islamic University of Niger

Nigeria

* Bayero University Kano * Usman Dan Fodio University

Palestine

* Al-Azhar University - Gaza, Al-Azhar University, Gaza * An-Najah National University * Al-Quds University * Al-Quds Open University * Birzeit University * Islamic University of Gaza

Pakistan

* Hamdard University * University of the Punjab * NED University of Engineering and Technology * Quaid-i-Azam University * Shah Abdul Latif University * Sindh Agriculture University * University of Sindh * Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology * University of Agriculture, Faisalabad * University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir * Bahauddin Zakariya University * Gomal University * International Islamic University, Islamabad * Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro *Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies *

Karachi *Jamia Naeemia Lahore *Jamia Nizamia Ghousia Wazirabad *Jamia-tul-Madina * Islamia University of Bahawalpur * Minhaj International University
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Philippines

* Jamiatu Muslim Mindanao

Qatar

* University of Qatar

Russian Federation

* Russian Islamic University, Kazan

Saudi Arabia

* Islamic University of Madinah * Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Umm al-Qura University * King Saud University

Sudan

* International University of Africa * Sudan University of Science and Technology *University of the Holy Quran and Islamic Sciences * University of Gezira * Blue Nile University * Al-Neelain University * Kordofan University * Sinar University * University of Juba * Khartoum University * Nile Valley University * Alzaiem Alazhari University * Omdurman Islamic University

Senegal

* Gaston Berger University of Saint Louis

Somalia

* Somali National University * Mogadishu University * University of Somalia

Suriname

* Anton de Kom University of Suriname

Syria

* University of Damascus * Tishreen University

Tunisia

* Ez-Zitouna University

Turkey

* Selçuk Üniversitesi * Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi

Uganda

* Islamic University in Uganda

United Arab Emirates

* Ajman University of Science and Technology * Institute of Islamic and Arabic Studies (Dubai), College of Islamic and Arabic Studies * United Arab Emirates University * University of Sharjah

United States

* Cordoba University, Cordoba University Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences *Zaytuna College

United Kingdom

*Jamia Al-Karam

Yemen

*University of Aden * Queen Arwa University * Taiz University * Sanaa University * University of Science and Technology, Sana'a

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