Islamic University of Niger

The Islamic University of Niger (officially the Oum Al-Qura University of Niger) is an Islamic university based in Say, Niger.

History

The Islamic University of Niger is sponsored by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, first proposed in Lahore, Pakistan in 1974. It was approved at the conference in Sanaa, Yemen in 1984, and officially inaugurated in November 1986. Funding for the campus in Say and its faculty has been provided by members of the OIC. Say has a long history as a center of religious learning, with a short lived Islamic state, similar to that of Usman dan Fodio's Sokoto Caliphate, founded there in the late eighteenth century.

Structure

Based in Say, around 37 miles from the nation's capital, the University's Vice-Chancellor's office is in Niamey. Faculties include:

• Faculty of Shari’a and Islamic Studies;
• Faculty of Arabic Language and Literature;
• Institute of Higher Education, Pedagogy and Teachers Training;
• African Centre for the Revalorization of the Islamic Heritage;
• “IQRA” Centre for Technical and Vocational Training;
• Section of Postgraduate Studies; and
• Women Collage for Islamic Studies and Arabic Language.

The University publishes the Annals of the Islamic University of Niger. Students and faculty study in Arabic, French, and English.

See also

• Islamic University in Uganda
• Organisation of Islamic Cooperation

References

• SESRIC Directory of Universities in OIC Member Countries.
• Islamic University in Niger. Website of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
• Islamic University of Niger. Directory of African Higher Education Institutions, Michigan State University.
• Islamic University of Niger. Federation of the universities of the Islamic world (2004)
• Javaid Rehman. Islamic State Practices, International Law and the Threat from Terrorism: A Critique of the 'clash of Civilizations' in the New World Order. Hart Publishing, 2005 ISBN 1841135011 p.32
• Resolution No. 1/15-C On The Islamic University In Niger. The Fifteenth -Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers held in Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic, from 25-29 Rabi Al-Awal, 1405H (18-22 December 1984).