Iman University (also al-Iman University, el-Eman University, or al-Eman University; Arabic: جامعة الإيمان; Jāmiʿat al-Īmān) is a Sunni religious school founded in 1993[1] in Sanaa, Yemen.[2][3]Al-Iman means the Faith.
As of January 2010, it reportedly had 6,000 students.[4]
The statement made by the U.S. Treasury mentions that some students at Iman University have been arrested for political and religious murders. Some believe that the school's curriculum deals mostly, if not exclusively, with Islamist studies, and that it is an incubator of extremism.[7][9] Students are suspected of having assassinated three American missionaries, and "the number two leader for the Yemeni Socialist Party", Jarallah Omar.[5]John Walker Lindh, now serving a 20-year prison sentence in connection with his participation in Afghanistan's Taliban army, is a former student of the university.[7][8]