Faculty of Islamic Sciences was established within the body of Yıldırım Beyazıt University in March, 2012. The faculty admitted its first undergraduate and postgraduate students in 2013-2014 Academic Year. Along with one year prep class focused on Arabic Language, period of study is five years. There are three main departments within the body of the faculty: Department of Basic Islamic Studies, Department of Philosophy and Islamic Sciences and Department of History and Arts of Islam. There are also sub-fields such as Tafsir, Hadith, Islamic Jurisprudence, Kalam, Sufism, Arabic Language and Rhetoric, Islamic Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion History of Islam, Turkish-Islamic Literature. Our objective is to be a distinguished higher education institution answering the needs of the society and to produce and spread knowledge about universal and original values, evaluate this knowledge according to Islamic values and to raise individuals answering the needs of the time and religious needs of the society.
By consulting to the primary resources concerning the religious issues of today which can be regarded, the faculty also aims to offer graduate education and publish academic journals as a continuation of bachelor education. Cooperating with the universities and institutes abroad that are offering education and conducting researches in the field of Islamic Sciences, the faculty aims to provide opportunities to its students to be more equipped professionally.
Graduates may work as research assistants at faculties of Theology or Islamic Sciences of the universities. They may also work as Ministry of Education, Ministry of Religious Affairs, and private education institutions and related areas abroad.