History
The Islamic University of Niger is sponsored by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, first proposed in Lahore, Pakistan in 1974. It was approved at the conference in Sanaa, Yemen in 1984, and officially inaugurated in November 1986. Funding for the campus in Say and its faculty has been provided by members of the OIC. Say has a long history as a center of religious learning, with a short lived Islamic state, similar to that of Usman dan Fodio's Sokoto Caliphate, founded there in the late eighteenth century.
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