International Islamic University, Islamabad

International Islamic University, Islamabad بين الاقوامی اسلامی يونيورسٹی اسلام آباد
Established	1980
Chancellor	Asif Ali Zardari President, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
President	Professor Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad
Rector	Prof. Fateh Muhammad Malik
Students	28,000
Undergraduates	10,500
Postgraduates	4,500
Location	Islamabad, Pakistan
Campus	Old campus around Faisal Masjid and new campus, Sector H-10 in Islamabad
Website	www.iiu.edu.pk

The International Islamic University, Islamabad (Arabic: الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية إسلام آباد, Urdu: بين الاقوامی اسلامی يونيورسٹی) is a seat of Islamic learning in Pakistan.

The foundation of the International Islamic University, Islamabad was laid on November 11, 1980. The desire to produce scholar and practitioners, imbued with Islamic learning, and capable of meeting the needs of the Muslim Ummah was the raison d'être of this university. The university was reconstituted as International Islamic University, Islamabad with the promulgation of Ordinance No.xxx of 1985. The university is ranked at No. 8 in Pakistan and 3470 in the world.

It is completely distinct from the International Islamic University in Malaysia.

The university is located around the Faisal Mosque

Campuses

Faculty block II, H-10 Campus, IIUI

Women's block, H-10 Campus, IIUI

New campus hostels

There are two campuses of university.

Old Campus

The university's Old campus is located around the Faisal Mosque. It was designed by a Turkish architect and was donated to the university by late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. The mosque is spread over an area of 190,000 square meters and can accommodate about 80,000 people.

New campus

The New campus is located in Sector H-10 of Islamabad, a sector given solely to the university. Construction of the first phase was completed in February 2003. A Women's campus has been established. Central library construction was completed in 2006, along with the Lincoln corner.

The Government of Pakistan allotted Islamabad, Sector H-10, comprising 704 acres (2.85 km²) of land, to enable the university to shift to its own new premises.

One academic block and two hostel blocks have been completed and became functional for the Women campus of the university.

As envisaged in the Master Plan of the new campus, the university will be completed in phases; Stage-I of Phase-I has reached culmination while stage-II is nearing completion. When constructed in its entirety, the university will accommodate 30,000 students (20,000 male and 10,000 female) in 22–25 faculties. In addition, there will be 57 hostel blocks for male students and 28 for female and partial accommodation for teaching/research and administrative staff.

There is to be a central mosque and a central library. Provision has been made for a commercial center and shops for the resident staff and the students.

Bomb blasts

On 20 October 2009 at least six people were killed in bomb explosions at the new campus by suicide bombers.

One bomb blast took place in the cafeteria of the Woman's Campus killing four and injuring several others. A second blast took place in the Shariah Block of the Male campus minutes after the first one. The bomb blasts caused a huge stir resulting in closing of all the educational institutions in the country for at least a week. The blasts raised security concerns especially for the foreign students whose number was in thousands. After the blasts, many foreign students left the country.

Organization

Faculties

The university consists of the following faculties:

• Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences
  • Department of Software Engineering (NCEAC recognized)
  • Department of Computer Science (NCEAC recognized)
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Environmental Sciences
  • Department of Bio-Informatics & Technology
• Faculty of Engineering and Technology(PEC recognized)
  • Department of Electronic Engineering
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Arabic Language and Islamic Civilization
• Faculty of Languages, Literature and Humanities
• Graduate School of Management
  • Department of Business Administration
  • Department of Technology Management
• Faculty of Shariah and Law
• Faculty of Social Science
  • Department of Education
  • Politics and International Relations
  • Department of Psychology
• Faculty of Islamic Studies (Usuluddin)
• Social Sciences
• Department of Media and Communication Studies

Institutes

• Islamic Research Institute
• International Institute of Islamic Economics
• Institute of Professional Studies (IPD)

• Islamic Language Centre
  • School of Economics
  • School of Islamic Banking and Finance
  • School of Economics and Finance

Academies

• Dawah Academy
• Shari'ah Academy

Centres

• Iqra Centre For Technical Education(I.C.T.E)(Affiliated KPK technical Board)

الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية إسلام آباد

Libraries

Central Library

The major/colonel source of knowledge of the university is the central library serving as the knowledge backbone for research and development. It is one of the biggest libraries in Asia of Islamic learning and research materials. The library contains a collection of books, journals, research projects and international magazines. The number of books in the library is estimated at 1.5 million.

Lincoln Corner

Lincoln Corner is situated in the library. It contains material on American History. The Lincoln Corner has multimedia projectors, DVD players, and broadband internet.Mr. M. Obaid-ur-Rehman is Coordinator for Lincoln Corner.

IIIE library

The International Institute of Islamic Economics provides facilities for research on Islamic economics. It contains rare books on Islamic law relating to economics and the Islamic way of running government.

IRI library

Islamic Research Institute library is the source of knowledge regarding different levels of the Islamic research.

FMS/FET library

For science and technology the library contains 25,000 books. 15 periodicals are subscribed, and ten newspapers are purchased. The library can seat 50 users. The library has 550 research reports/theses. The library provides 12 hour service daily to the students.

Dawah Academy library

Dawah library supports the research, training and publication programmes of Dawah Academy. More than 22,000 books are available.

Departmental libraries

Each department of the university has its own small library as well.

Foreign collaboration

The Islamic University has academic collaboration with the following universities:

• Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
• Ummul Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
• Islamic University of Medina, Medina, Saudi Arabia
• Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
• Ningxia University, People's Republic of China

A number of teachers who specialize in Shariah, Usul al Din wa Da’wah, Arabic Language and other subjects are provided on deputation by these universities.

Management

Professor Fateh Muhammad is the Rector. Dr. Mumtaz Ahmed is the President of the university. Mr. Gulzar Ahmed Khwaja is the Director-General Academics of the university.

Following are other officers of the university:

1. Dr.(Mrs) Zaitoon Begum is the Dean Faculty of Arabic 2. Dr. Muhammad Irfan is the Dean Faculty of Basic and Applied Sciences 3. Dr. Chohan is the Dean Faculty of Engineering and Technology 4. Dr. Asad Zaman is the Director-General of the Institute of Islamic Economics 5. Dr. Zafrullah Baig is the Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies 6. Dr. Amjad Rasheed is the Dean Faculty of Languages & Literature 7. Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad is the Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences 8. Dr. Zia ul Haq s the Dean Faculty of Shariah & Law 9. Dr. Nabi Bux Jumani is the Dean Faculty of Social Sciences

Associations

• Academic Staff Welfare Association (ASA)
• Officer Welfare Association (OWA)
• University Staff Welfare Association (USWA)

Events

• A three-day book fair was arranged in the university with the collaboration of companies. Media teams of AAJ TV, Dawn News, Geo TV, ATV (Pakistan) were there to cover the event. It continued from 22 October to 25 October. More than 85 national and international publishers participated in the exhibition. The Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Tariq Azeem was the chief guest on the occasion.¹
• IIUI Grand Engineering Open House was held on 19 and 20 May 2010. It was part of the university's silver jubilee celebrations. Students and faculty members displayed their projects in the event.

References

• Official website
• Dailytimes :IIUI holds a massive Book Fair
• PEC Accreditation to Degree of Electronics Engineering
• Conference on Applied Business Research IIUI " Transforming Knowledge"
• Alfalah Hostel Details

External links

• Official website
• Pakstudy
• Unofficial students website
• Students website