College Vision, Mission and Objectives
It is one of the higher education institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Republic of Iraq. The College of Islamic Sciences was established in 1989 AD and is an extension of the College of Sharia and Fundamentals of Religion after it was merged to become one college in February 2014. The college has been able to enjoy great encouragement from scientific and cognitive development in raising its scientific levels and completing many of what it lacks in terms of various factors and reasons for progress. It continues to keep pace with scientific and educational development, through developing its curricula and training its teaching and administrative staff. The college seeks to be a distinguished Islamic knowledge beacon in the Sharia sciences based on the principle of coexistence, respect for humanity and service to society.
The college’s vision is to be a beacon of local, Arab, and global science, knowledge, and faith, and a disciplined guiding and mentoring agent for society, while taking pride in the nation’s constants and factors of unity, rejecting division and discord, and confronting various doctrinal and intellectual deviations.
The vision
The college’s vision is to be a beacon of local, Arab, and global science, knowledge, and faith, and a disciplined guiding and mentoring agent for society, while taking pride in the nation’s constants and factors of unity, rejecting division and discord, and confronting various doctrinal and intellectual deviations.
The College of Islamic Sciences, with its diverse scientific departments, works within the frameworks of quality education and institutional and specialized academic accreditation to highlight and realize the Islamic identity in belief, thought and behavior, to keep pace with civilizational and scientific progress, and to emphasize the formation of close relationships with academic and scientific institutions to raise the level of its members, support scientific research, serve the community, develop educational curricula to raise the educational level, and provide the community and the educational process with specialized personnel in the various fields of Islamic sciences.
The message
The College of Islamic Sciences, with its diverse scientific departments, works within the frameworks of quality education and institutional and specialized academic accreditation to highlight and realize the Islamic identity in belief, thought and behavior, to keep pace with civilizational and scientific progress, and to emphasize the formation of close relationships with academic and scientific institutions to raise the level of its members, support scientific research, serve the community, develop educational curricula to raise the educational level, and provide the community and the educational process with specialized personnel in the various fields of Islamic sciences.
- To supply the community and its various religious institutions with imams, preachers, orators, guides, missionaries, and researchers in Islamic fields.
- Supporting the educational process with teachers of the Holy Quran, Islamic education, and Arabic language, armed with doctrinal, jurisprudential, and intellectual sciences.
- Strengthening the financial and banking sectors with specialists in Islamic financial and banking sciences, and highlighting the advantages of the Islamic economic system.
- Contributing to cultural communication and supporting society with specialists in comparative religion, doctrines, and dialogue of civilizations, based on the Almighty’s saying: “Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam.” (Al Imran, verse 19).
- Preparing researchers in Islamic law and its various fields to deepen Islamic thought, spread and promote Islamic values in society, and reduce negative phenomena in it.
- Supporting the scientific research process and actively contributing to serving the community by developing its diverse educational, scientific, and administrative staff.
- Preserving and highlighting Islamic heritage and contributing to the attempt to renew and spread it through disciplined scientific communication between authenticity and modernity.
- Strengthening the bonds between the members of Iraqi society and its diverse components to live in prosperity, security, safety and faith, and working to reduce the various doctrinal and intellectual deviations.
- Communicating with Arab and Islamic peoples by emphasizing the factors of unity and convergence between these peoples in service of Islam, Muslims and the world.
- Developing, nurturing, and monitoring the talents of learners, encouraging them to innovate and be creative, and adopting diverse educational models, strategies, and modern teaching methods and techniques that are in line with the requirements of the scientific development that the world is witnessing.
The goals
- To supply the community and its various religious institutions with imams, preachers, orators, guides, missionaries, and researchers in Islamic fields.
- Supporting the educational process with teachers of the Holy Quran, Islamic education, and Arabic language, armed with doctrinal, jurisprudential, and intellectual sciences.
- Strengthening the financial and banking sectors with specialists in Islamic financial and banking sciences, and highlighting the advantages of the Islamic economic system.
- Contributing to cultural communication and supporting society with specialists in comparative religion, doctrines, and dialogue of civilizations, based on the Almighty’s saying: “Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam.” (Al Imran, verse 19).
- Preparing researchers in Islamic law and its various fields to deepen Islamic thought, spread and promote Islamic values in society, and reduce negative phenomena in it.
- Supporting the scientific research process and actively contributing to serving the community by developing its diverse educational, scientific, and administrative staff.
- Preserving and highlighting Islamic heritage and contributing to the attempt to renew and spread it through disciplined scientific communication between authenticity and modernity.
- Strengthening the bonds between the members of Iraqi society and its diverse components to live in prosperity, security, safety and faith, and working to reduce the various doctrinal and intellectual deviations.
- Communicating with Arab and Islamic peoples by emphasizing the factors of unity and convergence between these peoples in service of Islam, Muslims and the world.
- Developing, nurturing, and monitoring the talents of learners, encouraging them to innovate and be creative, and adopting diverse educational models, strategies, and modern teaching methods and techniques that are in line with the requirements of the scientific development that the world is witnessing.
| Name | College of Islamic Sciences |
| Date of Establishment | 1989 |
| Nature of Available Majors | Humanitarian / legal / scientific |
| Geographic location | The Iraqi University complex in Sabaa Abkar |
| Number of department | 8 |
| Types of study available | Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs Master's PhD |
| Types of student admission | The department accepts graduates of preparatory studies in its literary, scientific and Islamic branches according to the following channels: · Morning admission · Evening Admission · Parallel Admission · Special Admission |
| Study | My semester consists of two semesters per year. |
| Services provided to students | · Free education · library · Sports and extracurricular activities |
| Job opportunities available to graduates | · Islamic education teacher · Proofreader · employee · Imam and preacher
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Departments and studies available at the college
| Serial number | Department | establishment | Geographic location | Studies available for the academic year 2025-2026 |
| 1. | Department of Shariaa | 1989 | First floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's · PhD |
| 2. | Department of Fundamentals of Jurisprudence | 2001 | First floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's |
| 3. | Department of Arabic Language | 2017 | First floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's |
| 4. | Department of Banking and Finance | 2014 | First floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's |
| 5. | Department of Creed | 1989 | Second floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's · PhD |
| 6. | Department of Quran Interpretation | 2009 | Second floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's · PhD |
| 7. | Department of Comparative Religions | 2009 | Third floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's · PhD |
| 8. | Department of hadeeth and its sciences | 2004 | Third floor | · Bachelor's degree: Morning and evening programs · Master's · PhD |
