Spokesperson of the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI), Nasir Farid has said that IIUI is an international seat of learning that has been serving the Muslim world for more than 4 decades in terms of promotion of Islamic values, Islamic character building in youth and dissemination of the Islam’s message of peace.
Referring to the queries of some media quarters about international stature and Islamic character of the university, the spokesperson IIUI said that the Islamic character is the first core value of the University and there had been a lot of focus in the past few years on nurturing the quality and improving the standards of those academic programs dedicatedly aligned with the Islamic Character (Usuluddin, Shariah, Arabic, Islamic Economics etc.) of the University. He informed that for the first time in the history of the University, IIUI is placed as 51-100 for Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies in QS World Subject Rankings and IIUI is number 1 in the subject based religious studies ranking in Pakistan.
He opined that the Islamic values and character has been of paramount importance for the university, which has led to the improvement in quality, transparency, fairness, merit and better quality of life at the campus. He also mentioned of the recent remarks of the honorable Education Minister Syed Madad Ali Sindhi who appreciated the role of IIUI in promotion of Arabic language and its student’s centric approach.
Talking about the international character of the University, he said it is very much intact with a thriving number of Alumni from over 50 different countries as well as over 1600 international students from more than 30 countries currently enrolled in various programs. He added that highly qualified sponsored faculty from universities and organizations from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, Kuwait and other Muslim Countries are greatly contributing to the cause of the University and reflecting a greater share of its internationalization. He told that the university is far more engaged with international bi-lateral projects, research collaborations as well as linkages in last three years compared with the previous years.
NasirFarid referred to the recent Convocation, where Chancellor of IIUI specially cherished that the female students’ presence at the university has outnumbered the male students and termed as a positive omen of progress.
