Vision, Mission and Objectives

College Vision:

To be one of the leading colleges in the study and teaching of Sharia and legal sciences, with a contemporary vision that keeps pace with the demands of the age and the needs of the labor market.

College Mission:

To prepare graduates scientifically and practically to assume leadership roles in society, and to equip them with creative thinking skills and specialized scholarly research in the fields of Sharia and law, in a manner that upholds authenticity, flexibility and contemporaneity, combined with innovation.

Values:

1- Excellence

2- Professionalism

3- Moderation

4- Social commitment

5- Creativity and innovation

6- Authenticity with flexibility and contemporaneity

College Objectives

The college aims to develop human resources and prepare specialists in Sharia and law, contributing to the betterment of society and to the promotion of its authentic Arab and Islamic values and its humanitarian dimension. To achieve these objectives, the college pursues several pathways, the most important of which are:

1- Providing opportunities for continuous academic study in Sharia and law for both male and female students, and contributing to meeting the regional need for qualified human cadres in Islamic Sharia and legal sciences, in line with labor market requirements.

2- Providing the means and capabilities to graduate cadres prepared to work in Sharia and civil judiciary, fatwa (Ifta'), advocacy, Sharia and legal consultancy, jurisprudential and legal research, the Islamic affairs sector, and Sharia supervisory boards of Islamic financial institutions, in accordance with the requirements of the age.

3- Preparing preachers, including imams, khatibs and educators, qualified to be good role models who contribute to raising a moderate generation that understands Islam comprehensively, far from extremism and excess, and that adopts an approach founded on wisdom and dialogue to spread and promote Islamic culture.

4- Preparing educated Muslim women with an integrated cultural formation in spirit and thought, and giving women their share in acquiring knowledge so that they may take their natural role in community development and in raising and nurturing generations well, within and outside the family. This is to be achieved through an approach that balances understanding the spirit of Sharia and law and its moral foundations with understanding the requirements, horizons and challenges of the age.

5- Providing the opportunity to acquire Sharia sciences in accordance with the method of our righteous predecessors, based on respect for the legislative foundations of the four schools of Fiqh, particularly the school of Imam Malik ibn Anas, away from currents of intellectual and doctrinal deviation and extremism.

6- Providing the opportunity to acquire legal sciences in comparison with Islamic Sharia, and to examine their ethical foundations.

7- Maintaining a continuous commitment to quality of performance and sustained improvement of education services, systems and infrastructure, in order to achieve competitive excellence for graduates in the local and regional labor markets.

8- Encouraging scholarly research and specialized research, and working to make the college an advanced research center within the country, by supporting authorship and translation related to its accredited specializations and by holding conferences, symposia and workshops inside the college or taking part in them outside it.

9- Developing academic and scholarly partnerships by opening up to academic and scientific institutions within and outside the country, communicating with them to exchange experience and research, and cooperating to achieve sustainable academic and scientific development.

10- Engaging with society in a manner that upholds the principle of moderation, by contributing to the spread of a culture of commitment within the community and by participating in meeting the local community's needs for public awareness.

11- Providing consultations, studies and services related to Sharia and legal sciences to governmental and private institutions.

12- Providing a mechanism for approving and facilitating scholarships.

Strategic Objectives within the Five-Year Strategic Plan (2019-2023)

1- Developing academic programs and raising the quality of their performance to keep pace competitively with labor market requirements.

2- Preparing highly competent and distinguished graduates, scientifically and professionally qualified to become creative, productive and innovative leaders.

3- Raising the level of scholarly research, establishing academic chairs, and creating a research environment that meets international standards and supports creativity and innovation.

4- Advancing high-level quality standards, expanding external accreditations, and increasing academic partnerships locally, regionally and internationally.

5- Strengthening local partnerships in community service activities in order to transfer skills and knowledge to community institutions, individuals and associations.

6- Ensuring effective management and development of human and financial resources, and delivering construction projects to competitive specifications.