School of Islamic and Social Sciences
-Cordoba University
45150 Russell Branch Parkway
Suite 303
Ashburn
VA 20147-2902
Telephone: +1 (571) 223-0500
About The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences
The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences became Corboda
University during the Spring of 2005 following more than two years of
deliberation amongst its constituents and upon final approval from the State
Council of Higher Education for Virginia.
Cordoba, the capital of al-Andalus in the 10th century, served as a
historical precedent for integrating, consolidating and building upon the
best from classical Islamic values and Western scholarship. In that period,
the city of Cordoba attracted the world's most brilliant Muslims, Christians
and Jews, who collaborated together in a rich intellectual exchange that
later paved the way for the Renaissance. At that time the library of Corboda
housed more than 500,000 books, printed on paper; while the largest
libraries in Europe housed less than 50, still written on parchment.
Collaboration among Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars was the norm, not
the exception.
The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences within Cordoba University
continues this tradition, becoming the first Muslim school to join a
consortium of Christian seminaries, The Washington Theological Consortium.
