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Top 25 Islamic universities worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,380 islamic universities worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 68,892 professional contacts across them, including 9,981 with verified work emails. Indonesia is the largest market and Karachi the largest hub.
This list covers islamic universities worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for islamic universities follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest islamic universities worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3,756 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Al-Azhar University, the beacon of Islamic education, strives to revolutionize the world with its unparalleled influence in health sciences, chemistry, applied sciences, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,589 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Umm Al-Qura University is a public university in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,742 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Islamia University began as Jamia Abbasia, a religious University established in Bahawalpur in 1925, following the academic pursuits of Al-Azhar University in Egypt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,343 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “University of Jordan is The oldest Higher education institution and university in Jordan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,976 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Location The main campus of Taif University is currently located in Al-Hawiyya, Taif Governorate, Emirate of Makkah, western region of Saudi Arabia, on the eastern slopes of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,878 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UII was initially founded under the name of Sekolah Tinggi Islam (STI-Islamic Higher School) by some leading figures including Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,622 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) is a leading comprehensive public university located in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,604 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The philosophy of the University was inspired by the recommendations of the first World Conference on Muslim Education held in Mecca in A.H.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 1,341 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VISION By the year of 2025 UNY envisions that the university will have enjoyed a world class education with piety, autonomy, and intellectuality as the foundational values.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,274 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “International Islamic University, Islamabad is a higher education company based out of International Islamic University, Sector H10, Islamabad, Islamabad, Federal, Pakistan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 794 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IAIN Sunan Gunung Djati), adalah perguruan tinggi negeri berbasis Islam yang berkedudukan di Kecamatan Cibiru, Bandung, Jawa Barat.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 793 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University of Mazandaran (UMZ) is the most important university in the province of Mazandaran.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 718 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang berdiri berdasarkan Surat Keputusan Presiden No.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 654 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) is an emerging Islamic university which is fully owned and funded by the Malaysian Government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 606 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I.A.U is an Iranian non-profit, non-governmental system of higher education founded in 1982, in response to an increasing social demand for specialized manpower and development…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 546 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Universitas Muslim Indonesia Makassar is a perguruan tinggi company based out of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 545 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya, also abbreviated as UIN Sunan Ampel, is one of the state Islamic universities in Indonesia based in Surabaya which organizes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 529 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UIN Raden Fatah Palembang is a research company based out of Indonesia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 514 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC) is one of the top graded Government approved private universities in Bangladesh.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 505 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Universitas Islam Riset Terdepan Berbasis Kesatuan Ilmu Pengetahuan untuk Kemanusiaan dan Peradaban pada Tahun 2038” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 478 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Universitas Islam Negeri Raden Intan Lampung adalah sebuah Perguruan Tinggi Keagamaan Islam Negeri yang menyelenggarakan layanan pendidikan untuk tingkat Strata1 (S1), Strata2…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 467 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UNISSULA as a leading Islamic University has announced a philosophical tagline for in its existance in education namely “Bismillah, membangun generasi khaira ummah“ or “In the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 437 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Visi: Menjadi Lembaga Dakwah dan Pendidikan Islam terkemuka dan modern dalam mencerahkan dan mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa guna membentuk masyarakat Indonesia yang beriman…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 432 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Usman Public School System The first campus of the Usman Public School System was established in 1989.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 422 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ibn Haldun University aims to stand out as a "research university" in Türkiye and the world with the quality of education it provides and the research projects it conducts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: islamic universities. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names islamic universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of islamic universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name islamic universities. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Islamic universities worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among islamic universities, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for islamic universities are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “islamic universities”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names islamic universities), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among islamic universities, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 9,981 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Islamic universities by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Islamic universities list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names islamic universities, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many islamic universities are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,380 islamic universities worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Al-Azhar University, headquartered in Cairo, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most islamic universities?
Indonesia leads with 370 companies, followed by Pakistan (138) and the United States (113). Every islamic universities list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most islamic universities?
Karachi leads with 45 headquartered companies, followed by London (28) and Lahore (21).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 9,981 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,380 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.