In the name of God the Compassionate the Merciful

“Allah will raise in degrees the ones of you who have believed and the ones to whom knowledge has been brought”

            SURA Mujadila _ Verse 11

Introducing the department and instruction guidelines

Examined in the educational curriculum in order to introduce religious thoughts, ethics, history of Islam, and contemporary history to the young generation, giving Islamic sciences courses, has been one of the fundamental actions of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution. It aimed at familiarizing the young generation with the precepts of Islam and making them more prepared to deal with eclectic thoughts and ideas. 

With the passage of time and considering the academic growth of the university and the increase in the level of students’ scientific needs, the alteration of those needs, and the arising of new questions, the necessity of revising the religious courses of universities with careful expertise became more apparent.

This important issue was included in the activities of Deputy of Faculty Affairs and Islamic sciences courses of the Office for Representatives of the Supreme Leader at Universities since 2000, and the issue was followed up in the Islamic Sciences course planning committee by making constant effort and persistence, investigating different projects, and gathering the opinions of the professors, experts, and heads of Islamic Sciences Departments, leading to the approval of the plan to add elective Islamic sciences courses to the curriculum. With the approval of this plan, the grounds for examining the issue in the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution was provided, and finally on July 13, 2004 the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution approved the titles of the Islamic sciences courses in act 542; students were thereafter required to choose 6 courses with a total of 12 credits from the titles mentioned in the act.

Following the aforementioned plan, based on the notice No. 281274 / A of February 6, 2007 issued in meeting No. 579 of March 7, 2006, the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution and the Supreme Council of Planning, it was approved that 2 credits of history of culture and civilization of Islam and Iran be presented adding to the maximum of credits (12 credits) in all programs including B.A, discontinuous B.A, and PhD.

Currently, based on the act of the meeting No. 253 of May 6, 2013, the Council of Islamization of universities was added to the courses of Islamic Sciences, concerning the addition of the 2-credit course of Family and Population Science, as a substitute for the compulsory course of Population and Family Planning.

PhD and B.A. programs and discontinuous B.A. programs now include a total of 16 credits and 12 credits of Islamic sciences courses, respectively.

Educational objectives of the department :

1. Promoting the level of students’ awareness and religious insight.

2. Acquainting students with Islam and Ahlul Bayt (PBUH).

3. Addressing students’ religious doubts.

4. Creating a practical approach to learning Islamic sciences courses with new methods of teaching

5. Improving different life skills based on Islamic values

6. Paying attention to the students’ superficial and current needs and transferring them from these needs to real needs of life

7.  Emphasizing and advising on ethical values and creating awareness of professional ethics based on Islamic values