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{{Short description|Private university in Gaza City, Palestine}}
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{{Infobox university
| name = Islamic University of Gaza
| image = Luhaidan Building - Islamic University of Gaza-مبنى اللحيدان بالجامعة الاسلامية في غزة.jpg
| caption = Luhaidan Building
| established = {{Start date and age|1978}}
| founder =
| native_name = الجامعة الإسلامية غزة
| type = Public
| president =
| students = 17,874<ref name="About IUG">{{cite web |title=About IUG |url=https://www.iugaza.edu.ps/aboutiug/%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%ae%d9%8a%d8%a9/ |website=The Islamic University Gaza |access-date=12 September 2022 |archive-date=31 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531233911/https://www.iugaza.edu.ps/aboutiug/%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AD%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A9/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| undergrad = 16,212
| postgrad = 1,662
| academic_staff = 307
| city = [[Gaza City|Gaza]], [[Gaza Strip]]
| country = [[Palestine]]
| colors = {{color box|white}}{{color box|green}} White and green
| website = [https://www.iugaza.edu.ps/ www.iugaza.edu.ps]
| logo = Islamic University of Gaza (logo).png
| logo_size = 240px
}}

The '''Islamic University of Gaza''' ({{langx|ar|الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة}}), also known as '''IUG''' and '''IU Gaza''', is an independent Palestinian university established in 1978 in [[Gaza City]].<ref name="timeshighereducation">{{Cite web |date=2021-11-12 |title=Islamic University of Gaza |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/islamic-university-gaza-0 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=Times Higher Education (THE) |language=en}}</ref> It was the first higher education institution to be established in the [[Gaza Strip]].<ref name="timeshighereducation" /> The university has 11 faculties capable of awarding [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[BSc]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[MSc]], [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]], [[diploma]]s and [[higher diploma]]s,<ref name="timeshighereducation" /><ref name="iugazaenglish">{{Cite web |title=About IUG – الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة |url=https://www.iugaza.edu.ps/en/about-iug/ |access-date=2022-10-02 |language=en-US}}</ref> in addition to 20 research centers and institutes and the affiliated [[Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital]].<ref name="timeshighereducation" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Islamic University Takes Up the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital – الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة |url=https://www.iugaza.edu.ps/en/p17014/ |access-date=2022-10-02 |language=en-US}}</ref>

The Islamic University suffered damage in air strikes during the [[Gaza War (2008–2009)|2008–2009 Gaza war]], the [[2014 Israel–Gaza conflict]], and the [[Gaza war]].<ref name="aljazeera20240802">{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/israel-strikes-university-gaza-city-20148283821707200.html|title=Israel strikes university in Gaza City|publisher=[[Al Jazeera]]|access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Watch: Israel Strikes the Islamic University of Gaza |url=https://www.wsj.com/video/watch-israel-strikes-the-islamic-university-of-gaza/B95C1AD3-C6D8-45CE-B5C7-0AE5B9C31EEF.html |access-date=2023-10-11 |website=www.wsj.com |language=en-US}}</ref> In December 2023, [[Sufian Tayeh|Professor Sufyan Tayeh]], the university's president and a prominent scientist, was killed along with his family in an Israeli air strike on [[Jabalia refugee camp]].<ref name="reuters20231202">{{cite news |date=2023-12-03 |title=Israeli air strike in Gaza kills prominent scientist Sufyan Tayeh, Palestinian ministry says |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-air-strike-gaza-kills-prominent-scientist-sufyan-tayeh-palestinian-2023-12-02/ |access-date=2023-12-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2023-12-04 |title=Gaza university president killed in Israeli air strike |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gaza-university-president-killed-israeli-air-strike |access-date=2023-12-11 |website=Times Higher Education (THE)}}</ref>

The university is generally considered the top-ranked in the Gaza Strip.<ref name="Silva Salam Mulligan Britton 2024 w253">{{Cite web |last1=Silva |first1=Chantal Da |last2=Salam |first2=Yasmine |last3=Mulligan |first3=Matthew |last4=Britton |first4=Bianca |date=2024-04-04 |title=Class destroyed: The rise and ruin of Gaza's revered universities |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/gaza-universities-destroyed-israel-military-war/index.html |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=www.nbcnews.com |language=en}}</ref>

== History ==

=== Founding ===
[[File:Founding document of the IUG, displayed at the IUG museum (2023).jpg|thumb|A copy of IUG foundation document, IUG museum (2023)]]
No universities or higher education institutions existed in the occupied [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]] until 1972.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Angrist |first=Joshua D. |date=1995 |title=The Economic Returns to Schooling in the West Bank and Gaza Strip |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2950975 |journal=The American Economic Review |volume=85 |issue=5 |pages=1065–1087 |jstor=2950975 |issn=0002-8282}}</ref><ref name="timeshighereducation2">{{cite web |date=2021-11-12 |title=Islamic University of Gaza |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/islamic-university-gaza |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=Times Higher Education (THE)}}</ref> Before then, Palestinian high school graduates sought higher education abroad, mostly in Egyptian and Jordanian universities. However, travel restrictions after the [[Status of territories occupied by Israel in 1967|Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967]], economic problems, and quotas on the admission of Palestinian students to Arab universities changed this situation.<ref name="pij">{{cite web |title=PIJ.ORG: Palestinian University Education under Occupation By Gabi Baramki |url=https://pij.org/articles/569/palestinian-university-education-under-occupation |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=PIJ.ORG |language=en-GB}}</ref> Initiatives by local elders and community leaders were set in motion to establish higher education institutions, often on the grounds of existing schools and colleges.<ref name="pij" />

Sheikh Mohammad Awwad, then head of the Gaza Chapter of the [[Azhari]] Institute, led the Islamic University's founding committee. On 12 April 1978, the committee announced the opening of three faculties: [[Sharia]], Usool-[[Din (Arabic)|Deen]], and [[Arabic Language]] (which later evolved into the Faculty of Arts).<ref name="iugaza">{{cite web |title=لمحة تاريخية – الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة |url=https://www.iugaza.edu.ps/aboutiug/%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%a9-%d8%aa%d8%a7%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%ae%d9%8a%d8%a9/ |access-date=2022-11-17 |language=ar}}</ref> The university was inaugurated in November 1978 as an independent, nonprofit, gender-segregated university. It was the first higher education institution in the Gaza Strip.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Islamic University of Gaza |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/islamic-university-gaza |access-date=2022-11-17 |website=Top Universities |language=en}}</ref> The Faculty of Education was founded in 1980 and the Faculties of Commerce and Arts the following year. The Faculties of Nursing and Engineering were founded in 1993. In 2005, the Faculty of Information Technology was founded, followed by the Faculty of Medicine in 2006.<ref name="iugaza" />
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible"
|+Chairmen of the IUG Board of Trustees
!Name
!Service Years
|-
|Mohammad Awwad
|1978-1994
|-
|Jamal Al-Khoudari
|1994-2014
|-
|Nasr al-Din Al-Muzaini
|2014-2022
|-
|Mohammad Al-Aklouk
|2022 - To date
|}
The establishment of the Faculty of Nursing was held up until 1993 and it took time to obtain building permits. The academic freedom of the university was restricted and staff movement was limited by [[Israeli Military Order|Military Order 854]]. The university was granted a temporary license that required annual renewal, and it was denied tax exemptions.<ref name="pij" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=ASSAF |first=Said |date=1997 |title=Educational disruption and recovery in Palestine |url=http://www.ibe.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/archive/Publications/free_publications/Tawil6e.pdf |website=UNESCO International Bureau of Education |pages=57–58}}</ref>

=== February 2007 fighting between Fatah and Hamas ===
In February 2007, during the height of [[Fatah–Hamas conflict|fighting]] between [[Hamas]] and [[Fatah]], the dominating party in the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO), the Palestinian Authority (PA) Presidential Guards and Fatah militiamen stormed the Islamic University campus using [[Mortar (weapon)|mortar]]s and [[rocket-propelled grenade]]s, setting the library building and parts of the computer center and science building on fire.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chronological Review of Events/February 2007 - DPR review |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208199/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Question of Palestine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Myre |first=Greg |date=2007-02-03 |title=17 Die as Fatah-Hamas Warfare Spreads |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/world/middleeast/03mideast.html |access-date=2023-02-23 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=4 February 2007 |title=Along the Lines of the Bloodiest Israeli Incursions: 29 Palestinians Killed and more than 200 Injured in Renewed Internal Clashes |url=https://pchrgaza.org/en/along-the-lines-of-the-bloodiest-israeli-incursions-29-palestinians-killed-and-more-than-200-injured-in-renewed-internal-clashes/ |access-date=2023-02-23 |website=Palestinian Centre for Human Rights |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== December 2008 bombing ===
Just after midnight on 28/29 December 2008 local time, the university was bombed in six air strikes by the [[Israeli Air Force]] during the [[Gaza War (2008–09)|2008 Gaza War]]. An Israeli army spokeswoman told The ''[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]'' that university facilities were being used by Hamas to develop and store weapons including [[Qassam rocket]]s used to target Israeli civilians. Hamas denied the Israeli allegation.<ref name="nypost">"IRAN'S GAZA GOONS CAUGHT AT HELM OF BOMB FACTORY," by ANDY SOLTIS with Post Wire Services, ''New York Post'', 2007-02-03 [http://www.nypost.com/seven/02032007/news/worldnews/irans_gaza_goons_worldnews_andy_soltis_with_post_wire_services.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204104632/http://www.nypost.com/seven/02032007/news/worldnews/irans_gaza_goons_worldnews_andy_soltis_with_post_wire_services.htm|date=2008-12-04}}</ref><ref>''Jerusalem Post'', 2008-12-29, IAF bombs Islamic University's R&D labs, By YAAKOV KATZ [http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456522761&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull]{{Dead link|date=September 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

Several international academic institutions proceeded to express their commitment to support IUG and other universities in Gaza. The [[International Association of Universities]], of which IUG is a member, claimed to have written to the university to express its deep concern over the effects of the war, and to be ready to mobilize its member universities in support of the rebuilding efforts of the university. Similarly, Prof. Espen Bjertness of the University of Oslo and member of the Steering Committee of PEACE, stressed that “the sad situation for all academics caused by the bombing of our member university, Islamic University, Gaza and of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program calls for appropriate action”.<ref>{{cite web |title=P.E.A.C.E. Programme |url=http://www.peace-programme.org/latest-news/news-about-the-project/82-the-situation-in-gaza-23-january-2009.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304054534/http://www.peace-programme.org/latest-news/news-about-the-project/82-the-situation-in-gaza-23-january-2009.html |archive-date=2012-03-04 |access-date=3 June 2015}}</ref>

=== 2014 Gaza war ===
The university was bombed again during the [[2014 Israel–Gaza conflict]]: on August 2, an Israeli airstrike targeted the administration building, causing severe damage to the building and to nearby buildings.<ref name="wsj20140803">{{Cite web |title=Israeli Airstrikes Target Gaza's Islamic University |url=https://www.wsj.com/video/israeli-airstrikes-target-gaza-islamic-university/9AED83DF-6CAF-4A1B-B2F7-C4333F152D6C.html |access-date=2023-03-02 |website=www.wsj.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The Israeli army claimed it targeted a "weapon development" centre in the university, which the university denied.<ref name="aljazeera20240802" /><ref name="wsj20140803" />

=== 2023 Gaza war ===
On the night of 10 October 2023, during the opening week of the [[Gaza war]],
the university's Gaza City campus was bombed and its buildings destroyed.<ref name="universityworldnews20231012">{{Cite web |title=Israel bombs Gaza university, alleging use by military |url=https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20231012162739531 |access-date=2023-12-03 |website=University World News}}</ref><ref name="Silva Salam Mulligan Britton 2024 w253"/> Israeli forces alleged that the university had served as a "training institution for the development and production of weapons."<ref>{{cite news |date=11 October 2023 |title=Islamic University of Gaza Targeted in Israeli Airstrike |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/islamic-university-gaza-targeted-israeli-091116143.html |access-date=11 October 2023 |publisher=Yahoo News}}</ref> The neighboring [[Al-Azhar University – Gaza|Al-Azhar University]] campus was also bombed during the same night.<ref name="universityworldnews20231012" />

==Relationship with Hamas==
According to the ''Chronicle of Higher Education,'' the Islamic University was co-founded by one of the future founders of Hamas, Sheikh [[Ahmed Yassin]], in 1978.<ref name="Chronicle">December 29, 2008, "Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza Destroy 2 University Buildings," Chronicle of Higher Education [http://chronicle.com/article/Israeli-Airstrikes-in-Gaza/42164] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013164527/http://chronicle.com/article/Israeli-Airstrikes-in-Gaza/42164|date=2012-10-13}}</ref> In June 1996, then-Congressman [[Chuck Schumer]] argued that the Islamic University of Gaza was "known as a Hamas bastion."<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 13, 1996 |title=Congressional Record, Volume 142 Issue 87 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-1996-06-13/html/CREC-1996-06-13-pt1-PgE1081-4.htm |website=govinfo.gov}}</ref>

[[Samar Sabih]], considered Hamas's first female bombmaker, was recruited while studying at IUG in 2003, according to Israeli security officials.<ref name="Pregnant">{{cite news |last1=Shaked |first1=Ronny |date=2005-10-27 |title=Hamas' pregnant bomb maker |url=https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3160145,00.html |access-date=24 October 2023 |work=Ynet News}}</ref>

In 2006, Jameela El Shanty, a professor at the university, said that "Hamas built this institution. The university presents the philosophy of Hamas. If you want to know what Hamas is, you can know it from the university."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is Gaza's Islamic University an Educational Institution Academics Should Be Defending? |url=https://hnn.us/articles/59958.html |work=History News Network}}</ref>

The [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]] wrote in a piece on [[USAID]] funding of organisations with possible links to terrorism that connections exist between the university and Hamas.<ref>August 24, 2007, "Better Late Than Never: Keeping USAID funds out of terrorist hands", Washington Institute for Near East Policy [http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2653] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071007174903/https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2653|date=2007-10-07}}</ref> The U.S. [[Office of the Inspector General]] said in a 2007 audit of U.S. assistance to Palestinian universities that the IUG has been vetted eight times between 2002 and 2007, concluding that "the vetting did not reveal information that would preclude the awards from proceeding".<ref name="usaid" />

[[Steven Erlanger]], former Jerusalem bureau chief of the ''[[New York Times]]'', described the IUG as "one of the prime means for Hamas to convert Palestinians to its [[Islamist]] cause," in a 2007 piece about Palestinian infighting and Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.<ref name="may18">"Gaza is hit with more Israeli airstrikes," by Steven Erlanger, ''New York Times'', May 18, 2007 [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/world/africa/18iht-mideast.5.5777660.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722045808/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/world/africa/18iht-mideast.5.5777660.html|date=2016-07-22}}</ref> This report was criticised by [[political economist]] [[Sara Roy]] of [[Harvard University]], who stated that "there can be no question that Hamas works within the framework of Islamic institutions in the Gaza Strip, and that there are certain direct links between Hamas and many of the social and economic institutions (in the strip). ... However, it is far more questionable whether an automatic and inevitable link exists between Hamas and Islamic social and economic institutions, whether those links are inherently subversive, or whether such institutions promote radicalism and violence as is commonly assumed." Roy also wrote: "logic maintains, institutional clients become automatically linked to Hamas and constitute a base of support for political Islam. As a result, Islamic social institutions become recruiting centers for the Hamas's military wing. There is however, little hard evidence to support any of these allegations."<ref>Sara Roy, ''Failing Peace'', 2007, Pluto Press: London</ref>

In 2010, journalist Thanassis Cambanis wrote in the ''[[Boston Globe]]'' that the university was "the [[brain trust]] and the engine room of Hamas".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=BueODwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Islamic+University+of+Gaza%22+%22hamas%22&pg=PA375 ''Israel Denial; Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State''], 2019.</ref>

In October 2023, the Israeli military accused Hamas of turning the university "into a training camp for weapons development and [[military intelligence]]."<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 27, 2023 |title=Hamas Releases Fourth Hostage Group, Truce Deal Extended by Two Days |url=https://www.wsj.com/video/hamas-releases-fourth-hostage-group-truce-deal-extended-by-two-days/6D226F02-03F2-46BD-AF44-2C3F8047D1B0 |website=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref>

== Campus ==
[[File:Islamic Uni Gaza.jpg|thumb|300x300px|The main conference hall at IUG]]

The main campus is located in Gaza City, with branch campuses in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip and Al Zahra in the middle of Gaza Strip. The total area of the three campuses is {{convert|325817|m2|ha acre|sp=us|abbr=off}}. The Al Zahra campus is home to the Faculty of Medicine and the [[Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Islamic University of Gaza {{!}} Ranking & Review |url=https://www.4icu.org/reviews/3574.htm |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=www.4icu.org}}</ref><ref name="timeshighereducation2" />

The campus hosted an array of science laboratories, libraries, computer labs, and research centers prior to its demolition by the Israeli military.<ref name="iugazaenglish"/>

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== Rankings ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+IUG Rankings<ref name="timeshighereducation2" />
!Category
!Rank
!Year
!Ranking
|-
|Global Impact Rankings
|601–800th
|2023
|''[[Times Higher Education]]''
|-
|Arab University Impact Rankings
|91-100th
|2023
|Times Higher Education
|-
|Overall percentile
|75th
|2023
|Scimago Institutions Rankings
|-
|Research percentile
|57th
|2023
|Scimago Institutions Rankings
|-
|Innovation percentile
|87th
|2023
|Scimago Institutions Rankings
|-
|Societal percentile
|60th
|2023
|Scimago Institutions Rankings
|}

==Donors==
Donors to the university include Arab Student Aid International, United Palestinian Appeal, [[Islamic Relief]], the [[British Council]], the [[World Bank]], [[United States Agency for International Development|USAID]],<ref name="usaid">{{Cite web |last=OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL |date=December 10, 2007 |title=AUDIT OF USAID/WEST BANK AND GAZA'S ASSISTANCE TO AL-QUDS UNIVERSITY, THE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IN GAZA, AND AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID |url=https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACS049.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026010054/http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PDACS049.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=26 October 2011 |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=[[USAID]]}}</ref> the [[Islamic Development Bank]] and [[Human Appeal International]].{{citation needed|date=November 2023}}

==Notable faculty==
*[[Sufian Tayeh|Sufyan Tayeh]] was the president of the Islamic University of Gaza and a leading researcher in physics and applied mathematics.<ref name="reuters20231202" /> He was appointed UNESCO chair for Physical and Astrophysical sciences in Palestine and was named on the "top 2% of scientists worldwide identified by Stanford University" list in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-21 |title=Recent Advances in Graphene Nanophotonics (Advanced Structured Materials #190) {{!}} mitpressbookstore |url=https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9783031289415 |access-date=2023-12-03 |website=mitpressbookstore.mit.edu |language=en}}</ref> Tayeh was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp during the [[Gaza war]].
*[[Refaat Alareer]] was a professor of literature who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2023, along with his brother, sister and her three children, during the [[Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (2023–present)|Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip]].
*[[Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi]], co-founder of Hamas<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84ehDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Islamic+University+of+Gaza%22+%22hamas%22&pg=PA696 | title=A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Second Edition | isbn=978-0-253-01346-0 | last1=Tessler | first1=Mark | date=24 March 2009 | publisher=Indiana University Press }}</ref>
*[[Abelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar]], [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] convicted of criminal contempt and obstruction of justice for refusal to testify in a trial related to the funding of [[Hamas]] in the US<ref name="WeisnerTestify">{{cite news |last1=Weisner |first1=Benjamin |title=Appeal Lost By Inmate Who Refuses To Testify |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/22/nyregion/appeal-lost-by-inmate-who-refuses-to-testify.html |accessdate=14 May 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=22 July 1998}}</ref>
*[[Yunis Al Astal]], Hamas leader and member of the Hamas Parliament<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Vxkj6BA5w24C&dq=%22Islamic+University+of+Gaza%22+%22hamas%22&pg=PT43 ''Mapping the Organizational Sources of the Global Delegitimization Campaign Against Israel in the UK'']</ref>
*[[Nizar Rayan]], high-ranking Hamas leader<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hamas-leader-dies-in-air-strike-as-israeli-troops-gather-at-border-1.860065 | title=Hamas leader dies in air strike as Israeli troops gather at border | website=CBC News }}</ref>
*[[Ismail Abu Shanab]], one of the founders of Hamas<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/22/israel1|title=Pragmatist whose two-state solution cut no ice with Israel|first=Brian|last=Whitaker|date=August 22, 2003|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[Ayman Taha]], senior Hamas official and spokesman in the Gaza Strip<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4588/ayman-taha|title=Hamas Executes One of Its Leaders - Then Blames Israel|first=Khaled Abu|last=Toameh|date=August 8, 2014|website=Gatestone Institute}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=April 2024}}

==Notable alumni==
{{Main|Category:Islamic University of Gaza alumni}}
*[[Refaat Alareer]], professor of literature
*[[Wael Al-Dahdouh]], journalist<ref name="Silva Salam Mulligan Britton 2024 w253"/>
*[[Khalil al-Hayya]], senior Hamas official<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/israeli-forces-battle-hamas-in-gaza-refugee-camp-as-deal-to-free-hostages-appears-close|title=Israeli forces battle Hamas in Gaza refugee camp as deal to free hostages appears close|date=November 21, 2023|website=PBS NewsHour}}</ref>
*[[Mohammed Dahlan]], opposition politician<ref name="Silva Salam Mulligan Britton 2024 w253"/>
*[[Fathi Hamad]], political leader of Hamas<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/pbei/winep/0017495/f_0017495_14978.pdf | title=Reality Contradicts New Hamas Spin }}</ref>
*[[Ismail Haniyeh]], senior political leader of Hamas, chairman of the Hamas political bureau<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OG1WEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Islamic+University+of+Gaza%22+%22hamas%22&pg=PA251 ''The Foreign Policy of Hamas; Ideology, Decision Making and Political Supremacy'']</ref>
*[[Ahmed Jabari]], senior leader and second-in-command of the military wing of Hamas, the [[Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/14/ahmed-al-jaabari-hamas-general|title=Ahmed al-Jabari: the Hamas 'general' who kept out of the limelight|first=Peter|last=Beaumont|date=November 14, 2012|work=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[Asma Mustafa]], teacher and activist, 2020 Global Teacher of the Year<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 November 2020 |title=Female Palestine teacher wins Global Teacher Award 2020 |url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201107-female-palestine-teacher-wins-global-teacher-award-2020/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107150307/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201107-female-palestine-teacher-wins-global-teacher-award-2020/ |archive-date=7 November 2020 |access-date=21 February 2024 |work=[[Middle East Monitor]] |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Yahya Sinwar]], former leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-09-02 |title=Yehya Ibrahim Sinwar - Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades |url=http://qassam.ps/prisoner-18-Yehya_Ibrahim_Sinwar.html |access-date=2023-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160902085758/http://qassam.ps/prisoner-18-Yehya_Ibrahim_Sinwar.html |archive-date=2 September 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Jason |date=2023-11-21 |title=Yahya Sinwar: the man who may hold key to release of Gaza hostages |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/yahya-sinwar-the-man-who-may-hold-key-to-release-of-gaza-hostages |access-date=2024-04-05 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*[[Sami Abu Zuhri]], senior spokesman for Hamas<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jun/20/israel3|title=Hamas ready for dialogue with Fatah|first=Rory|last=McCarthy|date=June 20, 2007|work=The Guardian}}</ref>
*[[Ismail al-Ghoul]], [[Al Jazeera Arabic]] journalist

==See also==
* [[List of Islamic educational institutions]]
* [[List of Palestinian universities]]
* [[Education in the Palestinian territories]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://www.iugaza.edu.ps Official website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070605030603/http://www.iugaza.edu.ps/album/index.html Islamic University in photos]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070527060110/http://www.iugaza.edu.ps/ara/grants/ General searching database for scholarships]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070622220633/http://www.iugaza.edu.ps/ara/library/magazine1.asp Publications of The Islamic University of Gaza] (in Arabic)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070602011457/http://www.iugaza.edu.ps/ara/calls/conf.asp The Islamic University Conferences]
* [http://www.aina.org/news/2007091995507.htm Report on connections between university and Hamas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723100555/http://www.aina.org/news/2007091995507.htm |date=2021-07-23 }}

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