Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University


Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was founded in 1953. In 1951, the university was established by merging the Islamic Law College and the Arabic Language College in Riyadh. In 1974, it was granted university status by royal decree. The university houses 12 faculties. It currently has more than 24,000 students and 1,300 faculty. It has intermediate and secondary Islamic institutes in major cities of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Djibouti and Japan. The university as a cultural and intellectual institution aims to promote knowledge offering undergraduate as well as postgraduate studies. One of the most important aims is to promote translating and publishing as the university has its own print house. Moreover, the university achieves its goals within the Islamic Shari'a.

History

Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University was founded in 1974.
The university library is the Prince Sultan Library For Science and Knowledge. The library was founded in 1952, and was shared with a variety of schools in the city. In 1975, the Deanship of Library Affairs was created to maintain the library. The library is a partner of the World Digital Library.

Colleges

College of Engineering
College of Medicine
College of Computer and Information Sciences
College of Sciences
College of Economics and Administrative Sciences
College of Social Sciences
College of Arabic Language
College of Media and Communication
College of Languages and Translation
College of Sharia
College of the Fundamentals of Religion
The Higher Institute of Judicial.
The Higher Institute of Dawah and Ihtisaab.
The university offers science and health major students 990 SR/month, and humanities students 840 SR/month, a 75% discount on foreign books, and fully furnished residences at the university housing/hostels complex, food within the university restaurant, free medical treatment, and full return tickets to their home country.

Curriculum

The university is organized into eleven colleges. The eleven colleges focus on: Shari'ah, Islam, Arabic language, social sciences, advocacy and media studies, language and translation, computer science and information science, economics and administrative sciences, formal science, medicine, and engineering. The University is home to the Institute of Translation and Arabization, a facility dedicated to the translation of Arabic texts to foreign languages, and translation of foreign language texts into Arabic.

Extracurricular activities

The university publishes a newspaper named Mir'at al-Jami`ah .

Sports and traditions

Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University has a soccer team and a stadium.

Notable alumni