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International Islamic University Malaysia
Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (Malay)
اونيۏرسيتي ‫إ‬سلام انتارابڠسا مليسيا (Jawi)
الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية بماليزيا (Arabic)
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Emblem
MottoTaman Ilmu dan Budi (Malay)
Motto in English
Garden of Knowledge and Virtue
Type Public university
Established23 May 1983;41 years ago (1983-05-23) [1]
Endowment RM400 million (2018)
Chancellor Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah
President Samsudin Osman
Rector Osman Bakar
Academic staff
1,904 (2019)
Students26,266 (2019)
Address
Jln Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
,
Gombak
,
Selangor
,
Malaysia
Campus Suburban, 700 acres (2.8 km²)
Colours    Gold and Turquoise
Nickname Mustangs
Affiliations ASAIHL, [2] ACU, [3] AUAP, [4] FUIW [5]
Website www.iium.edu.my
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international Islamic University Malaysia

The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) [a] is a public university in Malaysia. Headquartered in Gombak, Selangor, IIUM has six other campuses all over Malaysia: two medical-centric campuses and a Centre for Foundation Studies in Gambang, Pahang, two city campuses in Kuala Lumpur, and a language and tourism campus in Pagoh, Johor.

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The university is sponsored by eight governments and the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It is distinct from the International Islamic University, Indonesia and International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh.

The university was established on 23 May 1983 and founded upon Islamic principles. [1] Islamic values are inculcated into all disciplines. IIUM offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees courses at its 14 faculties or "Kulliyyah" ("Kulliyyat", in plural).

Since 1987, IIUM has produced more than 70,000 graduates and undergraduates from more than 100 countries around the world. Most of them were from Malaysia. [6]

History

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad [7] [8] conceived the idea for an international institution of Islamic education in 1982 during a meeting between OIC leaders about the Islamization of knowledge. The idea was shared with the then-minister of education, Sulaiman Daud; the then-director-general of education, Murad Mohamed Nor; and two others. Mohamed Kamal Hassan, then of the National University of Malaysia, along with a senior academic official who attended the meeting, produced the first working paper on the concept of the university. [7]

The first logo used by IIUM (back when it was known only as IIU), before the introduction of the current logo. International Islamic University Malaysia temporary logo 1983.svg
The first logo used by IIUM (back when it was known only as IIU), before the introduction of the current logo.

Ismail al-Faruqi, a prominent scholar, played a significant role in this movement. He advised political leaders in the Muslim world, including Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in Pakistan and Mahathir Mohamad. During Zia-ul-Haq’s administration, al-Faruqi contributed to the establishment of the International Islamic University in Islamabad in 1980, which aimed to integrate Islamic values with contemporary academic disciplines. In Malaysia, al-Faruqi's advisory role was instrumental in the foundation of the university in 1983. These institutions were part of broader efforts to develop educational systems that combined religious and secular knowledge, fostering intellectual and cultural development in the Muslim world. [9]

The university would be the first Islamic university in the world to conceptualize the "integration of knowledge with morals," a concept adopted at the International Convention of Islamic Education in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1976. [10]

IIUM was once a private university. As the university's language of instruction was not to be Malay but instead English and Arabic, which was initially prohibited by Malaysian law, IIUM was initially incorporated under the currently repealed Companies Act 1965. However, IIUM was officially made a public university on 23 May 1983, by Section 5A (2) of the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971, when the university received its establishment order from the then King, Ahmad Shah of Pahang, after an exchange of diplomatic notes of co-sponsorship between the government of Malaysia, seven other governments and OIC. [7]

A batch of 153 students from Malaysia and abroad were enrolled for the first academic session, which started on 8 July 1983. Courses were conducted under the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Laws, the Centre for Fundamental Knowledge, and the Centre for Languages. The members of this first batch received their degrees and diplomas during the first convocation held on 10 October 1987. 68 graduates were conferred the degree of Bachelor of Economics, 56 other graduates received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and 29 Qadhis were conferred Diploma in Law and Administration of Islamic Judiciary.

Governance

Ahmad Shah of Pahang was the founding constitutional head since 1 July 1983. Before his death, he was replaced by his daughter-in-law, the current Tengku Ampuan of Pahang, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah. She was made the constitutional head on 12 April 2019 for a five-year term, ending her father-in-law's chancellery in IIUM for 36 years, but the instrument of appointment was only presented to her by the federal government on 17 June 2019. [11]

Mohd. Daud Bakar, an Islamic finance expert in Malaysia, sits as the eighth and current president since 1 July 2019. [12]

Leaders since 1983

#NameTerm startTerm-end
Constitutional Head
1 Ahmad Shah of Pahang 1 July 198311 April 2019
2 Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah 12 April 2019 [11] Present
President
1 Hussein Onn 19831987
2 Anwar Ibrahim 19881998
3 Najib Razak 19981999
4 Sanusi Junid February 20001 June 2008
5 Mohd Sidek Hassan 2 June 20081 June 2013
6 Rais Yatim 2 June 20131 June 2018
7 Maszlee Malik 5 September 20189 November 2018 [13]
8Mohd Daud Bakar1 July 201930 June 2022
9 Samsudin Osman 1 July 2022Present
Rector
1Muhammad M. Abdul Rauf19841989
2 Abdul Hamid AbuSulayman 19891998
3 Mohd Kamal Hassan 5 April 199831 May 2006
4 Syed Arabi Idid 1 June 20061 June 2011
5 Zaleha Kamarudin 2 August 201131 July 2018
6 Dzulkifli Abdul Razak 1 August 201831 July 2024
7 Osman Bakar 21 September 2024present

Campus

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International Islamic University Malaysia, Gombak Campus

IIUM is headquartered at a 700-acre (2.8 km²) campus at Gombak, Selangor and has six other campuses. Three of campuses are in Kuantan, Pahang, with the Centre for Foundation Studies situated at Gambang, medical-centric campus situated at Bandar Indera Mahkota and clinical campus situated near Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital. Two city campuses are located at Persiaran Duta and Jalan Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, and another campus is located at Bandar Universiti Pagoh, Johor.

Centres of studies

IIUM has 14 following faculties. Each of them is, in Arabic, called "Kulliyyah" ("Kulliyyat" in plural):

Academics

Usrah

IIUM is the only public university in Malaysia that requires all of its foundation and undergraduate students to attend Usrah, i.e. Islamic study circle held weekly for the purpose of social, spiritual and intellectual enhancement. Since the establishment of IIUM, Usrah has been a requirement for students to graduate from IIUM. Since 2014, a separate Usrah has been held at residential colleges in addition to centralised Usrah, which is also compulsory to intermediate undergraduate students living in campus. [14]

Achievements

Awards and recognition

In 2014, IIUM was ranked tenth out of 440 teams participated in the 35th World Universities Debating Championship. [15] In 2016, IIUM won the United Asian Debating Championship, the Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championship, and the Asian British Parliamentary Championship. In 2017, IIUM was made the runner-up of World Universities Arabic Debating Championship. [16]

In the field of research, IIUM have received recognition at regional and international level by winning gold, silver and bronze medals at exhibitions and expos, including PENCIPTA, INPEX, ITEX Geneva and KIPA. [17] IIUM entered the inaugural Proton Green Mobility Challenge 2012 (PGMC) when the University's entry, an electric powered Proton Saga BLM named "Smart Mobility" became the overall champion and also took "Farthest Distance" and "Fastest Two Laps Challenge" award. [18]

IIUM was involved in the creation of the Malaysian Shariah Index with collaboration from JAKIM and YADIM which Malaysia will be the first country in the world to adopt it. [19] The index will measure the compliance of eight fields – judiciary, politics, economics, health, education, culture, infrastructure and environment, and social – with "maqasid syariah", or the intentions of Shariah. The Malaysian Shariah Index was officially launched by the Prime Minister of Malaysia on 10 February 2015. [20]

Notable alumni

IIUM has been known to be the most influential Islamic tertiary education institute in the country as well as one of the leading Islamic universities in the Muslim world.

Notable faculty members

Current faculty members

Former faculty members

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Malay: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia; Jawi: اونيۏرسيتي اسلام انتارابڠسا مليسيا; Arabic: الجامعة الإسلامية العالمية بماليزيا

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