International Conference of the Literary Society of Pakistan
“Getting our Bearings Right: Literature, Society and Prosperity”

27-28 April 2019
About International Islamic University Islamabad
The foundation of the Islamic University, Islamabad was laid on the first day of the fifteenth century Hijrah i.e., Muharram 1, 1401 (November 11,1980). This landmark of the beginning of the new Century symbolizes the aspirations and hopes of the Muslim Ummah for an Islamic renaissance. The university was created to produce scholars and practitioners who are imbued with Islamic ideology, whose character and personality conforms to the teachings of Islam, and who are capable to cater to the economic, social, political, technological and intellectual needs of the Muslim Ummah. Islamic Research Institute and few other units like Iqbal International Institute for Research & Dialogue, Dawah Academy, Shariah Academy and Institute of Professional Development are situated within the premises of majestic Faisal Mosque (spread over an area of 189,705 square meters). The university provides academic services to men and women through separate campuses located in sector H-10.The mission of the university is to develop an international Islamic seat of higher learning, research instruction and training in various branches of knowledge to be taught, studied, developed and reconstructed in such a way as to produce a balanced and harmonious human personality. With about 1500 students from 35 different countries of the world—Middle East, China, Japan, South Korea, Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, and Africa—the IIUI is Pakistan’s only university with a cosmopolitan outlook that is house to one of Pakistan’s largest student populationi.e., more than 30000 students. The university is open to all without any discrimination of caste, creed, color, nation, race, religion or sex. The IIUI is proud of its current academic links with the following foreign universities: University of North Carolina in Wilmington, USA; University of Birmingham, UK; Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey; Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt; UmmulQura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia; Islamic University, Madina, Saudi Arabia; Imam Muhammad Bin Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Abdul Aziz University, Jaddah, Saudi Arabia. (For more info, please visit http://iiu.edu.pk/)