Darussalam Islamic University is a reputed educational centre in south India providing both secular and Islamic education forstudents. The courses offered by Darussalam Islamic University include Quran, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, Fiqh, Hadith, history, culture, and so on. Special efforts have been made by DIU for Da’wa activities. DIU emphasizes preparation of studies and educational consultation required to servedifferent sectors of the community. It insists on collection of specialized human resources and requalification making them able for intellectual communication and spiritual renaissance. The main motive behind it was to procreate eminent Islamic scholars, linguists, and orators who can take up the challenges of thetime, solve the problems of the modern world and lead the community through the right path.

It was on 2nd February 1976 that the Jamia Darussalam Al Islamiyya was established. It was a time that, those who wanted to get a religious degree had to go outside Kerala, because there weren’t adequate upper institutions for higher studies. Most of the students were compelled to stop their higher studies in half way. Hence, the establishment of Darussalam marked itself as a mile stone in the history of Islam in Kerala. It was under the leadership of Nandiyil Muhammed Musliyar, an eminent scholar. And by the remarkable great services of Shamsul Ulama EK Aboobacker Musliyar, who led Kerala Islamic community for more than half a century, it has been broadly accepted by Islamic societies around the globe.
Darussalam Arabic college committee was constituted to run and supervise a number of Islamic and Academic educational institutions. Jamia Darussalam Al-Islamiyya is the headquarters of the committee. It situate at Nandi nearby Koyilandi in Kozhikode district of Kerala state. It has won a key status in global Islamic society and became a top graded non-governmental educational and cultural centre in the world. It also undertakes the co-ordination of Darussalam Islamic colleges, which consists of around 50 institutions affiliated to it, along with its own 10 colleges functioning as per the required standards.