2025-05-20 00:00:00 Coordination of Islamic Colleges - CIC is an academic governing body functioning as a university. Established in response to a perceived need to evolve a methodology and mechanism to make higher Islamic Studies efficient and effective, the CIC has played a pivotal role in revising, modifying, and integrating the curriculum of Islamic Colleges in Kerala, the southernmost State of India where Muslims constitute one fourth of the total population. A front runner in the field of synchronizing Islamic and secular disciplines of knowledge, the CIC has made its presence known by propounding a comprehensive educational scheme for advanced Islamic learning. It is an umbrella organization with 88 affiliated institutes (34 of them are exclusively for girls) and around 9000 students, pursuing a unique syllabus and courses of study. Co-ordination of Islamic Colleges confers on students in the colleges affiliated to it the 'WAFY' and wafiyya degree for boys and girls respectively on their successful completion of the prescribed courses of study. Wafy is an eight-year exhaustive Postgraduate course in Islamic studies while Wafiyya is a five-year exhaustive graduate course in Islamic studies coupled with a recognized University degree in any secular discipline. This course was tailored to mould a new and promising generation of Islamic scholars with in-depth knowledge both in Islamic and secular studies. On Islamic stream, it follows the modified version of Muthavval, the postgraduate course cast in the mould of erstwhile Nizamiyya Syllabus which has been in vogue for centuries in higher Islamic studies in Kerala. While retaining the spirit of the traditional syllabus intact, modification was effected either by introducing some new topics or through revising some subjects with updated and modern versions. These measures are inevitable to meet the new challenges and needs of time.