International University of Africa

The International University of Africa or International University of Africa (Arabic: جامعة إفريقيا العالمية, English International University of Africa ) is a university in Khartoum, the capital of the Republic of Sudan.

She goes to a predecessor of back: the 1967 and 1972oder other claims to 1977 ( re-establishment ), founded African Islamic Center ( al - المركز الإسلامي الإفريقي Markaz al -Islami al-ifrīqī/Islamic African Centre / Centre islamique africain ).

1992 downgraded the military government under Colonel Omar al-Bashir on the institute into a university. Although the word was removed from their Islamic names, Islamic studies is an important part of their study regulations.

The University has been active since its foundation in Islamic higher education of students who come from countries south of the Sahara. They competed by the Federal Centre for Political Education, according to the Egyptian al -Azhar University, with Libyan institutions, the Islamic University of Medina and international Islamic organizations.

She is a member of the Association of Universities of the Islamic World ( Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World). The university has faculties of Education and Humanities, Sharia and Islamic studies and for theoretical and applied sciences.

It was founded in the words of its first director, the Sudanese Muftis Awad Allah Salih,

"Pour la lutter contre la haine et rancune of Arabes et de l' islam que la colonization Européene a implantées dans le coeur des Africains (German: to fight against the rancor and hatred of Arabs and Islam, European colonialism in the has implanted in the heart of the Africans. ) "

She has received significant funding from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.