How Islamic.University is governed
Knowledge offered in the name of Islam carries a duty of care. This page sets out who is responsible for what, how what we teach is validated, and how you can hold us to it.
Institutional form
Islamic.University is endowed as a waqf — held in perpetual trust, not owned by its founders. The endowment includes the intellectual assets: the courses themselves are waqf property, not company property.
- It currently operates as a ring-fenced project under PT IBF Net Indonesia.
- A Yayasan (Foundation) is being constituted during the current quarter to hold it. On completion, the endowment will carry its own legal personality and mutawallī board.
A waqf, by its nature, is meant to outlive the people who begin it. That is the intent here.
Council of Governance — the endowment
The Council stewards the waqf itself: donations received, and the waqf assets, including the intellectual assets. It does not determine what is taught.
Dr Mohammed Obaidullah
Chair · President Director, PT IBF Net Indonesia
Prof Dr Habib Ahmed
Professor and Sharjah Chair in Islamic Law and Finance, Durham University, United Kingdom
LinkedIn ↗Dr Hisham Dafterdar
Chairman, Awkaf Australia Ltd
LinkedIn ↗Dr Irfan Syauqi Beik
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Islamic Economics, IPB University, Indonesia
LinkedIn ↗Hidayathullah Baig
Executive Director and Head of Project Finance, Alinma Bank, Saudi Arabia
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Academic authority
An Academic Faculty is being constituted to hold academic authority over the curriculum: approving the source material each course is built from, validating content before it reaches a learner, and ruling on corrections.
Until it is in place, academic authority rests with the Chair, under the standards set out below. Faculty members will be named on this page as they are appointed.
Shariah Advisory Board
Shariah advice is taken externally and at arm’s length, rather than in-house.
A Shariah Advisory Board is being constituted to advise on Shariah matters as they arise, and will be formally seated upon registration of the Foundation. Members will be named on this page as they are appointed.
How content is validated
Nothing reaches a learner unreviewed. Every course follows the same path:
- Sources first. Each course begins from approved source material.
- Drafting. Content is drafted with AI assistance, grounded strictly in that approved source material. Nothing is drafted that is not traceable to it.
- Validation. Every learning object, assessment item and tutor-source carries an explicit status. Content moves from Proposed to Validated only under scholarly authority, and only Validated content is published Live.
- Citation. Claims carry their source, so you can check what is being said and on whose authority.
- Assessment integrity. A credential requires the full assessment, a pass mark, and a graded capstone. Nothing is issued for attendance alone.
- Records. Validation decisions are logged and auditable.
The AI Tutor is bounded
Our multilingual Tutor is a study companion, and it is deliberately constrained:
- It answers only from the validated corpus. It does not draw on the open internet or on unvalidated material.
- Where it has no validated basis for an answer, it says so and escalates rather than speculating.
- It is not a muftī. It is a guide to help you learn what has already been validated.
What this is — and what it is not
Islamic.University offers scholar-validated knowledge for education and benefit.
It is not a fatwa body, and nothing here is a personal fatwa. We hold academic authority over what we teach; we do not issue rulings on individual circumstances. For a binding ruling on your own situation, please consult a qualified scholar who knows your case.
Independence
- Islamic.University is free to learners. There are no fees.
- It carries no advertising and sells no placements or sponsored content.
- No commercial party influences what is taught or validated. Academic judgements are not subject to commercial override, and the body that stewards the endowment is separate from the authority that decides what is taught.
- Shariah advice is taken externally, at arm’s length.
There is no one paying us to tell you something.
Corrections and feedback
We will get things wrong. When we do, we want to know.
- Any learner can flag an error on any topic using the feedback option on that topic.
- Flags are reviewed under the standards above.
- Corrections re-enter validation before republication.
If something here seems mistaken, please tell us. Correcting it is part of the trust.
Review and amendment
This page is reviewed at least annually, and whenever the Council’s composition, the Academic Faculty, the Shariah Advisory Board, or the institutional form changes. Material changes are dated here.
Contact
Questions on governance, academic substance, or a correction: governance@islamic.university
Version 1 · Last reviewed 15 July 2026