International University of Africa

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جامعة إفريقيا العالمية
International University of Africa
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founding 1992
Sponsorship state
place Chartum
country SudanSudan Sudan
Students 5870 (2010)
Networks FUIW
Website www.iua.edu.sd
Main gate of the university

The International University of Africa ( Arabic جامعة إفريقيا العالمية, DMG Ǧāmiʿat Ifrīqiyā al-ʿālamīya ; English International University of Africa ) is an Islamic university founded in 1992 in Chartum , the capital of the Republic of Sudan . It has faculties for education and humanities, Sharia and Islam studies, and for theoretical and applied sciences.

Logo at the entrance

history

The International University of Africa goes to the Islamic-African Center (المركز الإسلامي الإفريقي al-Markaz al-islāmī al-ifrīqī ; Islamic African Center ; Center islamique africain ), which was founded in November 1966 by a decree of the Sudanese government. As a public educational institution under the Ministry of Education, it was supposed to offer young Africans from different countries training in Arabic and Islamic studies. According to its first director, the Sudanese Mufti Awad Allah Salih, the aim of the facility shouldalso be

"Lutter contre la rancune et la haine des Arabes et de l'islam que la colonization européene a implantées dans le coeur des Africains ( dt . : to fight against the Ranküne and the hatred of Arabs and Islam , the European colonialism in the hearts of Africans planted.) "

The center was opened in 1967 in Omdurman in a building that the Ansār as-Sunna, the supporters of the Sudanese- Wahhabi movement, had rented.

After General Jafar Numeiri's military coup in May 1969, the center was closed and its property was confiscated. In the course of its ideological realignment away from Arab nationalism towards an Islamic self-image, the regime decided in 1971 to reopen the center. But this time it came under the control of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Foundations. A new statute drawn up by the ministry and approved by the Council of Ministers in March 1972 made the center even more focused on Islamic missions .

In 1973, Muhammad Ahmad Yagi, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Religious Affairs, won new land ten kilometers south of Chartum for the center. The distance of the property from the capital was seen as an advantage to ensure that the students were not too exposed to the temptations of urban life. In 1977 the center reopened on this site and accepted its first 60 African students from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Sudan.

According to the statutes, which were published in a trilingual brochure in 1983, the Islamic-African Center was an "independent Islamic foundation" based in Chartum, supported by seven Arab countries (Saudi Arabia 25%, Kuwait 15%, Qatar 15%, United Arab Emirates 15%, Egypt 10%, Morocco 10% and Sudan 10%) and was subordinated to a board of trustees made up of representatives from the seven donor countries. In 1986/87 the center consisted of four departments: (1) the teaching department, which had existed since 1977; (2) the Daʿwa Department established in 1980 ; (3) the Department for Research and Publication, a service facility founded in 1982, and (4) the newly established Department for Social Services, which was responsible for assistance primarily in the field of health to Islamic centers in sub-Saharan Africa. Within the teaching department, a sub-department for technology was created as early as 1981, in which practical professional skills and knowledge were also imparted. According to a leaflet from 1987, 780 students were studying at the center at that time.

Although Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, which together raised 70 percent of the center's funds, suspended their payments in 1991 due to the Sudanese stance during the Second Gulf War , the military government under Colonel Umar al-Bashir elevated the institute to rank in 1992 a state university . Although the word Islamic has been removed from their name, Islamic Studies forms an important part of their study regulations .

The university has been active in Islamic higher education for students from sub-Saharan countries since its inception . According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education , it competed with the Egyptian al-Azhar University , Libyan institutions, the Islamic University of Medina and international Islamic organizations for the award of scholarships . It is a member of the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World ( Association of Universities of the Islamic World ).

literature

  • N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum: la République du Soudan et la propagation de l'islam en Afrique noire (1977–1991). In: René Otayek (ed.): Le radicalisme islamique au sud du Sahara: da'wa , arabization et critique de l'Occident. Karthala - MSHA - Paris, 1993, ISBN 2-86537-404-1 . ( Online excerpt ; see africabib.org ( Memento of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ))
  • John Hunwick: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World of Islam. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. In: Eva Evers Rosander, David Westerlund (Eds.): African Islam and Islam in Africa: Encounters Between Sufis and Islamists . Ohio University Press, 1997. ( online excerpt )

Web links

Commons : International University of Africa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Numbers of Students ( Memento from October 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) International University of Africa
  2. ^ List of Members. (pdf) In: www.fumi-fuiw.org. Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World, 2017, p. 8 , accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ Mufti of Sudan, cf. A note on Shari'a Jurists: Salih, Gizouli, Tantawi, and Garadawi ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on groups.yahoo.com (engl.)
  4. ^ N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, p. 102 quotes the Mufti from Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi (a journal published by the Center)
  5. ^ N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, p. 101.
  6. a b N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, p. 107.
  7. ^ N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, p. 108.
  8. a b N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, p. 113.
  9. ^ N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, p. 109.
  10. ^ N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, pp. 114f.
  11. a b N. Grandin: Al-Merkaz al-islami al-ifriqi bi'l-Khartoum. 1993, p. 119.
  12. ^ John Hunwick: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World of Islam. 1997, p. 42.
  13. ^ John Hunwick: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Wider World of Islam. 1997, p. 43.
  14. ^ Megan Lindow: Once Radical, a Sudanese Institution Has Changed Its Approach. In: The Chronicle of Higher Education. July 6, 2007, accessed November 16, 2012 .
  15. Africa - Continuity and Change in Society Federal Agency for Civic Education , bpb.de: Information on Civic Education (Issue 303) September 18, 2009.

Coordinates: 15 ° 31 '57.4 "  N , 32 ° 34' 4.8"  E