The Gombak District is an administrative district located in the state of Selangor , Malaysia . The district was created on February 1, 1974, the same day when Kuala Lumpur was declared a Federal Territory . Until 1997, Rawang was the district capital; the capital has been moved to Bandar Baru Selayang . Gombak borders Kuala Lumpur to the southeast and the Genting Highlands to the east. Both Gombak and Kuala Lumpur, along with some other districts in Selangor, are situated within the Klang Valley . Other localities in Gombak district include Batu Arang , Kuang , Rawang , Kundang , Gombak Town , Selayang , Batu Caves and Hulu Kelang .
32-683: The main campus of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM/UIAM) is also located here as well as the Batu Caves . Gombak is also home to an aboriginal Orang Asli settlement, and it is the site of the Orang Asli Museum . Gombak River merges with the larger Klang River in Kuala Lumpur. The meeting place of the two rivers is the birthplace of Kuala Lumpur. At the center of
64-618: A cresent and a fourteen-pointed federal star Or, the sinister Vert a tiger holding a torch and a kris proper and the base Or a Bunga Raya or hibiscus flower also proper. The crest featured a scroll inscribed with the words 'Zidni Ilman', which means increase me in knowledge, a reference to the word in Surah 20 Taha, Verse 114 of the Quran . In 2010, the University's corporate logo was created by its Centre for Corporate Communications, featuring
96-600: A large amount of recreational area and tourist attraction. [REDACTED] List of Gombak district representatives in the Federal Parliament (Dewan Rakyat) List of Gombak district representatives in the State Legislative Assembly ( Dewan Undangan Negeri ) The Gombak district is served by the following expressways: International Islamic University Malaysia The International Islamic University Malaysia ( IIUM )
128-503: A requirement for students to graduate from IIUM. Since 2014, a separate Usrah has been held at residential colleges in addition to centralised Usrah, which is also compulsory to intermediate undergraduate students living in campus. In 2014, IIUM was ranked tenth out of 440 teams participated in the 35th World Universities Debating Championship . In 2016, IIUM won the United Asian Debating Championship ,
160-712: A temporary campus housing three main faculties, the Faculties of Science, Arts and Islamic Studies. In October 1977, UKM moved to its present premises which form the main campus in Bangi. The campus has a size of 1,096 ha (2,710 acres). UKM has two health campuses, the Kuala Lumpur campus in Jalan Raja Muda Abdul Aziz, and the UKM Medical Centre in Cheras. The Kuala Lumpur campus consists of
192-621: Is a public research university located in Bandar Baru Bangi , Hulu Langat District , Selangor , Malaysia . Its teaching hospital, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC), is located in Cheras and also has a branch campus in Kuala Lumpur . There are 170,500 undergraduate students enrolled, and 90,105 postgraduate students of which 40,368 are foreign students from 35 countries. Since its establishment in 1970,
224-758: Is a public university in Malaysia . Headquartered in Gombak , Selangor , IIUM has six other campuses all over Malaysia: two medical-centric campuses and a Centre for Foundation Studies in Gambang , Pahang , two city campuses in Kuala Lumpur , and a language and tourism campus in Pagoh , Johor . The university is sponsored by eight governments and the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC). It
256-853: Is based on Department of Statistics Malaysia 2010 census. Gombak has one of the largest Hui Muslim Communities in Malaysia. Nearly 60% of Hui Chinese live in Gombak. National education is under the purview of the Gombak District Education Office. As of 2014, there were 53 national type primary schools, eight national type (Chinese) primary schools, seven national type (Tamil) primary schools, 30 national type secondary schools (SMK), two national type secondary boarding schools (SM Berasrama Penuh), two national type secondary Islam religious school (SM Agama) and two national type secondary vocational schools (Kolej Vokasional) Gombak has
288-598: Is distinct from the International Islamic University, Indonesia and International Islamic University Chittagong , Bangladesh. The university was established on 23 May 1983 and founded upon Islamic principles. Islamic values are inculcated into all disciplines. IIUM offers bachelor's , master's and doctoral degrees courses at its 14 faculties or "Kulliyyah" ("Kulliyyat", in plural). Since 1987, IIUM has produced more than 70,000 graduates and undergraduates from more than 100 countries around
320-491: Is located at Bandar Universiti Pagoh , Johor . IIUM has 14 following faculties. Each of them is, in Arabic, called "Kulliyyah" ("Kulliyyat" in plural): IIUM is the only public university in Malaysia that requires all of its foundation and undergraduate students to attend Usrah, i.e. Islamic study circle held weekly for the purpose of social, spiritual and intellectual enhancement. Since the establishment of IIUM, Usrah has been
352-613: The National University of Malaysia , along with a senior academic official who attended the meeting, produced the first working paper on the concept of the university. Ismail al-Faruqi , a prominent scholar, played a significant role in this movement. He advised political leaders in the Muslim world, including Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in Pakistan and Mahathir Mohamad. During Zia-ul-Haq’s administration, al-Faruqi contributed to
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#1732786994762384-620: The Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championship, and the Asian British Parliamentary Championship. In 2017, IIUM was made the runner-up of World Universities Arabic Debating Championship. In the field of research, IIUM have received recognition at regional and international level by winning gold, silver and bronze medals at exhibitions and expos, including PENCIPTA, INPEX, ITEX Geneva and KIPA. IIUM entered
416-713: The Faculties of Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Dentistry and the Pre-Clinical Departments of the Medical Faculty. With a size of 20 ha (49 acres), the Kuala Lumpur campus was established in 1974. The campus in Cheras consists of the Medical Faculty, the UKM Teaching Hospital ( Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz UKM (HCTM) ) and the UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute (UMBI) . The Cheras campus
448-828: The Herbarium. UKM was awarded the status of a Malaysian Research University in October 2006 by the Ministry of Higher Education, a move designed to try to propel the universities into leading research universities in line with the Higher Education Strategic Plan 2007–2020. In 2006, UKM won the Prime Minister's Quality Award. The current coat of arms of the UKM was first designed by university staffer Mohd Aris Atan and has been in use since 1972. It
480-768: The Malay language was used as the university's medium of instruction. A Sponsoring Committee chaired by Syed Nasir Ismail , a Malay intellectual, was set up to prepare a report recommending the establishment of UKM. Other prominent members of this committee include Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (Tun) , Malaysia's fourth Prime Minister, who was then the Education Minister, and Dr. Mohd Rashdan Haji Baba, who later became UKM's first Vice-Chancellor. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia opened its doors on 18 May 1970 to 192 undergraduate students in Jalan Pantai Baru, Kuala Lumpur,
512-487: The Masjid Lama Batu 6 Gombak are still standing to this day. Today, Gombak can be referred to both the town and district itself but the locals usually refers Gombak as the town, not the district. Gombak District is divided into 4 mukims , which are: Gombak is partly administrated by two different local governments completely within it, which fall under the state jurisdiction, not the district: The following
544-569: The Muslim world. The university would be the first Islamic university in the world to conceptualize the "integration of knowledge with morals," a concept adopted at the International Convention of Islamic Education in Mecca , Saudi Arabia in 1976. IIUM was once a private university. As the university's language of instruction was not to be Malay but instead English and Arabic, which was initially prohibited by Malaysian law, IIUM
576-452: The coat of arms accompanied by the names of the university in Malay and English. The Malay name (UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA) is big and presented in upper case, with the letters U, K and M bigger than the rest. The English name ( The National University of Malaysia ) is small, italicised and presented in sentence case. The National University of Malaysia is currently one of the three public universities in Malaysia to adopt its coat of arms,
608-517: The compasses and gear represent technology, the tiger represents strength and courage and the book represents knowledge. It is blazoned : The first coat of arms of the university designed by the First Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas , was different from the present one. It was blazoned as: Tierced per pall reversed, the dexter Gules on a bend Azure fimbriated Argent
640-536: The confluence is the Masjid Jamek . Gombak (town) also refers to as a locality (town/area/suburb) in the northern and central portion of the Setapak subdistrict (both in Gombak and Kuala Lumpur ). Before 1974, Gombak was a town before it became a district. Gombak was home to the settlements of the first Minangkabau immigrants in the 1800s and was established soon after. Old mosques in the Gombak area such as
672-454: The country as well as one of the leading Islamic universities in the Muslim world. [REDACTED] Media related to International Islamic University of Malaysia at Wikimedia Commons 3°15′10″N 101°44′15″E / 3.25278°N 101.73750°E / 3.25278; 101.73750 National University of Malaysia The National University of Malaysia ( Malay : Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia , abbreviated as UKM )
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#1732786994762704-579: The degree of Bachelor of Laws , and 29 Qadhis were conferred Diploma in Law and Administration of Islamic Judiciary. Ahmad Shah of Pahang was the founding constitutional head since 1 July 1983. Before his death, he was replaced by his daughter-in-law, the current Tengku Ampuan of Pahang, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah . She was made the constitutional head on 12 April 2019 for a five-year term, ending her father-in-law's chancellery in IIUM for 36 years, but
736-496: The establishment of the International Islamic University in Islamabad in 1980, which aimed to integrate Islamic values with contemporary academic disciplines. In Malaysia, al-Faruqi's advisory role was instrumental in the foundation of the university in 1983. These institutions were part of broader efforts to develop educational systems that combined religious and secular knowledge, fostering intellectual and cultural development in
768-471: The first academic session, which started on 8 July 1983. Courses were conducted under the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Laws, the Centre for Fundamental Knowledge, and the Centre for Languages. The members of this first batch received their degrees and diplomas during the first convocation held on 10 October 1987. 68 graduates were conferred the degree of Bachelor of Economics , 56 other graduates received
800-477: The inaugural Proton Green Mobility Challenge 2012 (PGMC) when the University's entry, an electric powered Proton Saga BLM named "Smart Mobility" became the overall champion and also took "Farthest Distance" and "Fastest Two Laps Challenge" award. IIUM was involved in the creation of the Malaysian Shariah Index with collaboration from JAKIM and YADIM which Malaysia will be the first country in
832-722: The instrument of appointment was only presented to her by the federal government on 17 June 2019. Mohd. Daud Bakar, an Islamic finance expert in Malaysia, sits as the eighth and current president since 1 July 2019. IIUM is headquartered at a 700-acre (2.8 km²) campus at Gombak , Selangor and has six other campuses. Three of campuses are in Kuantan , Pahang , with the Centre for Foundation Studies situated at Gambang , medical-centric campus situated at Bandar Indera Mahkota and clinical campus situated near Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital . Two city campuses are located at Persiaran Duta and Jalan Damansara, Kuala Lumpur , and another campus
864-700: The other two are the University of Malaya (UM) and University of Science Malaysia (USM) . The following is a list of vice-chancellors of the National University of Malaysia. When the Times Higher Education (THE) Guide University Rankings was published in October 2014, it was reported that UKM, along with Universiti Malaya, opted not to submit data for consideration. The UKM Strategic Centre deputy executive director Associate, Professor Dr. Masturah Markom, responded by saying that
896-435: The world to adopt it. The index will measure the compliance of eight fields – judiciary, politics, economics, health, education, culture, infrastructure and environment, and social – with "maqasid syariah", or the intentions of Shariah. The Malaysian Shariah Index was officially launched by the Prime Minister of Malaysia on 10 February 2015. IIUM has been known to be the most influential Islamic tertiary education institute in
928-478: The world. Most of them were from Malaysia. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad conceived the idea for an international institution of Islamic education in 1982 during a meeting between OIC leaders about the Islamization of knowledge . The idea was shared with the then-minister of education, Sulaiman Daud; the then-director-general of education, Murad Mohamed Nor; and two others. Mohamed Kamal Hassan, then of
960-575: Was initially incorporated under the currently repealed Companies Act 1965 . However, IIUM was officially made a public university on 23 May 1983, by Section 5A (2) of the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 , when the university received its establishment order from the then King , Ahmad Shah of Pahang , after an exchange of diplomatic notes of co-sponsorship between the government of Malaysia, seven other governments and OIC. A batch of 153 students from Malaysia and abroad were enrolled for
992-465: Was modified to its present form by publications officer Zulkifli Ibrahim, which was launched on 29 July 2000 in conjunction with the university's 30th anniversary, with stripes added to the tiger's body. The arms is depicted as a quartered shield featuring an atomic symbol, a compass , a gear, a Malayan tiger and the national flower, Bunga Raya, or hibiscus rosa-sinensis , with an overlaid book placed on top of it. The atomic symbol represents science,
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1024-629: Was opened in 1997. Besides these campuses, UKM operates seven research stations (RS): The Tasik Chini RS, The Marine Ecosystem RS, The Langkawi Geopark RS, The Marine RS, The Fraser's Hill RS, The Plant Biotechnology RS and in the main campus itself, the UKM Campus Living Laboratory, which comprises the UKM Permanent Forest Reserve, or its Malay name, Hutan Simpan Kekal UKM as well as the Fernarium and
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