Iman University

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Iman University (Arabic: جامعة الإيمان ‎) (Jāmiʿat al-Īmān) is a Sunni religious school in San‘a’, Yemen[1][2]. It is not a university in Western sense of the word. Its name can also be rendered as al-Iman University or el-Eman University or in other ways. Al-Iman means the Faith.

The founder and principal director of this organization is Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who is classified by the US Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist[3], and who is also under sanction by the United Nations[4] as an affiliate of al-Qaeda. The Treasury statement mentions that some students at Iman University have been arrested for political and religious murders, that John Walker Lindh was once a student there, and that the school has upwards of 5,000 enrollees.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Arabic website of Iman University
  2. ^ English website of Iman University
  3. ^ United States Designates bin Laden Loyalist, United States Department of the Treasury
  4. ^ UN 1267 Committee banned entity list
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