Higher education plays an important role in addressing comprehensive sustainable development issues, facing the challenges lying ahead, and coming up with suitable solutions. It is also substantial to the advancement of society, meeting its spiritual and material needs, promoting its cultural, civilizational and human values, and boosting individual knowledge and creative abilities.

Being cognizant of the paramount importance higher education has in the development process, and the necessity for boosting the scientific abilities of our universities to better meet the Islamic countries’ need for suitably qualified human resources, the FUIW aims to help the Member Universities meet the challenges facing the Muslim Ummah at all levels. It also seeks to entrench science and technology in the Islamic countries, build science-based societies and boost the Member Universities’ competences in the fields of scientific research, knowledge integration, curricula development and quality culture dissemination.

This website provides information on the universities of the Islamic world by shedding light on their activities, abilities and aspirations. You can also, dear visitor, use this website to know more about the Federation, its organs, regulations, membership conditions, the projects that were drawn by the General Secretariat and adopted by the General Conference and the Executive Council, as well as the action plans, strategies, programmes, activities and publications.

Welcoming you once again and wishing you a useful tour of our website, we hope that you will visit us again in the future.

On the occasion of my appointment as Chairman of the Executive Council of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World (FUIW), I would like to thank the Rectors of the universities members of the FUIW for the trust they placed in me to carry out the duties of this position. I ask Allah Almighty for help and guidance to deliver on this responsibility, serve the Member Universities, and give the FUIW its much deserved status. Mine is a pursuit to boost and expand cooperation among the Member Universities, toward further scientific development and greater global competitive edge.

I would also like to seize this opportunity to express my thanks and gratitude to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for approving my appointment, in support of the FUIW.

The Islamic world has many distinguished academics and highly competitive universities. I am confident the FUIW is well placed to best enhance cooperation between the Member Universities, promote exchange of expertise, bring efforts to bear in developing higher education and scientific research in the Islamic universities, and most benefit from latest advancements.

I am glad to welcome you to the FUIW website, and I hope that visitors and researchers will find in it useful information on the Federation, its activities and programmes, and the Member Universities.

I also welcome any good idea or constructive criticism you believe would help us accomplish the mission and goals of the FUIW and its Executive Council.

Allah we ask for help and success in elevating our universities.