Iman University

Iman University (also al-Iman University, el-Eman University, or al-Eman University; ; Jāmiʿat al-Īmān) is a Sunni religious school founded in 1993 in Sanaa, Yemen.Arabic website of Iman UniversityEnglish website of Iman University Al-Iman means the Faith.

As of January 2010, it reportedly had 6,000 students.

Its founder and principal director was Abdul-Majid al-Zindani, who was classified by the US Treasury as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist,United States Designates bin Laden Loyalist , United States Department of the Treasury and who was also under sanction by the United Nations. In 2004, he was designated a terrorist associated with al-Qaeda by both the U.S. and the United Nations.Schmidt, Susan; Imam From Va. Mosque Now Thought to Have Aided Al-Qaeda; The Washington Post, 27 February 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2009. He was co-founder of Islah (a Yemeni opposition party) and was theological adviser to Osama bin Laden.

The statement made by the U.S. Treasury mentions that some students at Iman University have been arrested for political and religious murders. Some believe that the school's curriculum deals mostly, if not exclusively, with Islamist studies, and that it is an incubator of extremism.Glenn R. Simpson, "Terror Probe Follows the Money," The Wall Street Journal, 2 April 2004. Retrieved 21 January 2010. Students are suspected of having assassinated three American missionaries, and "the number two leader for the Yemeni Socialist Party", Jarallah Omar. John Walker Lindh, now serving a 20-year prison sentence in connection with his participation in Afghanistan's Taliban army, is a former student of the university.

After the Battle of Sanaa (2014), the Houthi movement in San'a' closed the Al-Iman University.November 2014, Le monde diplomatique, engl. version, by Laurent Bonnefoy

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