Institutions that have an Islamic or Muslim identity or charter include:University of Madinah

Institutions founded before the colonial era and which are still in operation:

• University of Al-Qarawiyyin, Morocco, the oldest existing, continually operating and the first degree-awarding educational institution in the world according to UNESCO and Guinness World Records.^[1][2]
• Markazu Saqafathi Sunniyya, Kerala, India
• Markaz Knowledge City, Kerala, India
• Ma'din Academy, Malappuram, Kerala, India
• Al-Azhar University, Cairo
• Al-Mustansiriya University, Baghdad
• University of Ez-Zitouna, Tunis, Tunisia
• University of Timbuktu
• Darul Uloom Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow

Institutions of religious education (most are classified as "madrasas", a term that means "school" or, literally, "place where lessons are given") founded during the colonial era:

• Jamia Nizamia, Hyderabad, India^[3]

Religious institutions (or madrasas) founded since the end of colonial rule in the respective countries:

• Al Jamiatul Ashrafia

India

• Markazu Saqafathi Sunniyya

Kerala

• Jamia Al Hind Al Islamiyya

India

• Darul Uloom Deoband India
• Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama India
• Dar al-Mustafa, Tarim, Yemen
• Darul Uloom Haqqania, Akora Khattak, PAKISTAN
• Darul 'Uloom Karachi, Korangi, Karachi, PAKISTAN
• Jamia Faridia, Sector E-7, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Jamia Binoria, S.I.T.E Industrial Area, Karachi, PAKISTAN
• Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia, Allama Binori Town, Karachi, PAKISTAN
• Darul Huda Islamic University, Malappuram
• Umm al-Qura, Mecca
• Zaytuna Institute, Hayward, California, US
• Jamiatur Raza, Bareilly India
• Jamiatul Qasim Darul Uloom Al-Islamiah, Supaul

These are institutions founded during colonial era that are not religious seminaries. Most are universities with a broad charter for comprehensive education in the Muslim communities they serve.

• Aligarh Muslim University^[4]
• Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi^[5]
• Jamia Osmania
• Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Educational institutions founded since end of colonial rule that are not religious seminaries, but have an Islamic or Muslim identity or charter, or devoted to sciences and arts usually associated with Islamic or Muslim culture and history:

• Kabul University

• Emir Abdelkader University, Constantine^[6]

• University of Bahrain
• Arabian Gulf University

• Islamic University of Technology
• Darul Ihsan University
• Dhaka University
• Jahangirnagar University
• Khulna University
• International Islamic University Chittagong
• Islamic University, Bangladesh
• Manarat International University
• University of Rajshahi
• Islamic Arabic University
• Bangladesh Islami University

• University of Sarajevo

• University of Ouagadougou

• Universiti Brunei Darussalam
• Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University

• University of N'Djamena

• University of Cocody

• Al-Azhar University
• Assiut University
• Minia University
• Suez Canal University
• Helwan University
• Tanta University
• Zagazig University
• Cairo University
• Mansoura University
• Minufiya University
• Ain Shams University
• Alexandria University

• Islamic University College, Ghana

• University of Conakry
• Julius Nyerere University of Kankan

• Islamic University of Indonesia
• Muhammadiyah University of Magelang
• Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta
• Bandung Islamic University
• Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta
• Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta
• Sunan Kalijaga Islamic University
• YARSI University
• Nahdlatul Ulama Islamic University
• International Islamic University of Indonesia

• Darul Uloom Deoband, Uttar Pradesh
• Darul Uloom Waqf, Deoband
• Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, Lucknow
• Mazahir Uloom, Saharanpur
• Jamia Nizamia, Hyderabad, India
• Jamiatul Qasim Darul Uloom Al-Islamiah, Supaul
• Jamia Islamia Ishaatul Uloom, Akkalkuwa
• Aligarh Muslim University
• Al Jamiatul Ashrafia, Uttar Pradesh
• Al-Jame-atul-Islamia, Raunahi
• Jamia Al Barkaat Aligarh, Aligarh
• Darul Uloom Mau, Mau
• Jamia Miftahul Uloom, Mau
• Jamia Amjadia Rizvia, Ghosi
• Jamiatur Raza, Bareilly
• Jamia Hamdard, Delhi
• Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
• Jamia Al Hind Al Islamiyya Kerala
• Jamia Markaz, Kozhikode
• Manzar-e-Islam, Bareilly
• Markaz Knowledge City, Kozhikode
• Darul Huda Islamic University
• Ma'din Academy, Malappuram, Kerala

• Iran University of Medical Sciences
• Islamic Azad University
• K. N. Toosi University of Technology
• Payame Noor University (Distance Education)
• Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
• Sharif University of Technology
• Shiraz University
• University of Tehran
• Tarbiat Moallem University
• Tehran University of Medical Sciences
• Bu-Ali Sina University
• Allameh Tabatabai University
• Gorgan University
• Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
• University of Isfahan
• Alzahra University
• Amirkabir University of Technology
• Isfahan University of Technology
• Iran University of Science and Technology

• University of Basrah
• University of Technology
• University of Mosul
• University of Baghdad
• Al Qadissiya University
• Kufa University
• Mustansiriyah University
• Iraqi University in Baghdad
• University of Anbar
• Babylon University

• Al-Mustafa Islamic Cultural Centre Ireland

• Al al-Bayt University
• Al-Balqa` Applied University
• Ajloun National Private University
• Al-Ahliyya Amman University
• Al-Hussein Bin Talal University
• Al-Isra University
• Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan
• American University of Madaba
• Applied Science Private University
• German-Jordanian University
• Hashemite University
• Irbid National University
• Jordan University of Science and Technology
• Jerash Private University
• Jadara University
• Mutah University
• Petra University
• Philadelphia University
• Princess Sumaya University for Technology
• Tafila Technical University
• University of Jordan
• World Islamic Sciences and Education University
• Yarmouk University
• Zarqa Private University

• Beirut Arab University
• Lebanese University

• Al-Arab Medical University
• University of Garyounis
• Sebha University
• Seventh of April University
• Al-Tahadi University

• International Islamic University Malaysia
• University of Science Malaysia
• University of Malaya
• Universiti Utara Malaysia
• University of Technology, Malaysia
• University Malaysia Sabah
• Al-Madinah International University
• Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah International Islamic University
• Selangor International Islamic University College
• Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia

• Chouaib Doukkali University
• Mohammed V University at Agdal
• Mohammed V University at Souissi
• Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

• University of Nouakchott

• Eduardo Mondlane University^[7]

• Islamic University of Rotterdam

• Islamic University of Niger

• Bayero University Kano
• Usman Dan Fodio University

• Al-Azhar University, Gaza
• An-Najah National University
• Al-Quds University
• Al-Quds Open University
• Birzeit University
• Islamic University of Gaza

• Hamdard University
• University of the Punjab
• NED University of Engineering and Technology
• Quaid-i-Azam University
• Shah Abdul Latif University
• Sindh Agriculture University
• University of Sindh
• Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology
• University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
• University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
• Bahauddin Zakariya University
• Gomal University
• International Islamic University, Islamabad
• Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro
• Aleemiyah Institute of Islamic Studies
• Jamia Amjadia Rizvia Karachi
• Jamia Naeemia Lahore
• Jamia Nizamia Ghousia Wazirabad
• Jamia-tul-Madina
• Islamia University of Bahawalpur
• Minhaj International University
• Al Quran Lab^[8]

• Jamiatu Muslim Mindanao

• University of Qatar

• Russian Islamic University, Kazan

• Islamic University of Madinah
• Umm al-Qura University
• King Saud University

• International University of Africa
• Sudan University of Science and Technology
• University of the Holy Quran and Islamic Sciences
• University of Gezira
• Blue Nile University
• Al-Neelain University
• Kordofan University
• Sinar University
• University of Juba
• Khartoum University
• Nile Valley University
• Alzaiem Alazhari University
• Omdurman Islamic University

• Gaston Berger University of Saint Louis

• Somali National University
• Mogadishu University
• University of Somalia

• University of Damascus
• Latakia University

• Ez-Zitouna University

• Selçuk Üniversitesi
• Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi

• Islamic University in Uganda

• Ajman University of Science and Technology
• United Arab Emirates University
• University of Sharjah

• American Islamic College
• Cordoba University Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences
• Zaytuna College
• Islamic University of Minnesota

• Cambridge Muslim College
• Jamia Al-Karam

• Dar al-Mustafa
• University of Aden
• Queen Arwa University
• Taiz University
• Sanaa University
• University of Science and Technology, Sana'a

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