UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh

Ar-Raniry State Islamic University, abbreviated as UINAR, is a State University located in Banda Aceh, Aceh Province. UIN Banda Aceh was named Ar-Raniry which was a cleric advisor to the Sultanate of Aceh during the reign of Sultan Iskandar Tsani (Iskandar II) .. The birth of IAIN Ar-Raniry was preceded by the establishment of the Faculty of Shari'ah in 1960 and the Faculty of Tarbiyah in 1962 as a branch of IAIN Sunan Kalidjaga Yogyakarta. In addition, in the same year (1962), Ushuluddin Faculty was also established as a private Faculty in Banda Aceh. After several years of being a branch of IAIN Yogyakarta, the faculties sprang to IAIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta for six months until IAIN Ar-Raniry was inaugurated. At the time it was inaugurated on October 5, 1963, with the issuance of the Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia Number 89 of 1963. As the third IAIN in the archipelago after IAIN Sunan Kalidjaga Yogyakarta and IAIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, IAIN Ar-Raniry continues to advance and develop. When IAIN Ar-Raniry was inaugurated (October 5, 1963) it has only three faculties, namely Faculty of Shari'ah, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Faculty of Ushuluddin, but only 5 years old was inaugurated also Faculty of Da'wah (1968) as the first da'wah faculty In the IAIN neighborhood in Indonesia. In 1968, IAIN Ar-Raniry was appointed as the parent of two state-run religious faculties in Medan (the forerunner of IAIN North Sumatra), the Faculty of Tarbiyah and Syari'ah which lasted for 5 years