The Faculty of Islamic Studies in Novi Pazar is a higher education institution founded by the Islamic Community, and is on a par with other faculties and higher education institutions in the Republic of Serbia.

The Faculty's diplomas are recognized both in Serbia and around the world. The Faculty of Islamic Studies is registered by the competent ministries in the Republic of Serbia, as well as higher education institutions of the Rijaset of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina, equal to the other three Islamic faculties operating within the Rijaset.

The Faculty of Islamic Studies was founded at the session of the Assembly of the Islamic Community of Sandžak on May 12, in year 2001, originally as the Islamic Pedagogical Academy in Novi Pazar. In 2005, the Academy was renamed to Faculty of Islamic Studies.

Affirmation of the religious and national identity of Bosniaks from Sandžak during the nineties opened up a space for freer religious activity, which resulted in the reactivation of religious and educational establishments and institutions. The establishment of the Faculty is a continuous rise of religious education in Sandžak.

The strength of a nation is contained in its intellectual and educational potential, in knowledge whose light chases the darkness from the horizon of the unknown and hidden.

Bosniaks in Sandžak have survived for a hundred years despite permanent attacks on their religious, national and cultural identity. One of the biggest injustices towards this region by all the systems that governed it is the systematic stifling of the development of education, especially religious and educational institutions.

The Faculty of Islamic Studies was created on the basis of the religious and educational institutions in Sandžak, which were established during the time of the Ottomans as early as 1461.

The work of the Faculty of Islamic Studies for the Muslims of Sandžak means the preservation of religious knowledge, as well as the provision of its own, high-quality personnel potential. The activity of the Faculty of Bosniak Culture means the continuation of an age-old tradition that is unique in Europe and the world in its peculiarities.

Thanks to the establishment of the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Novi Pazar has become a student town, since it is the first higher education institution in this climate.

The activity of the Faculty is reflected in the organization of teaching and scientific-research work in Islamic and social sciences that lead to diplomas and academic degrees, including doctoral degrees, with the aim of improving Islamic thought, knowledge and education, and for the needs of the Islamic community in Serbia.

Scientific-research and teaching work in the education of personnel for the acquisition of a higher vocational education, professional degree of specialist, scientific degree, master's degree and doctor of science takes place in theoretical and practical Islamic sciences: qiraet, tafsir, hadith, aqaida, fiqh, history of Islam, Islamic culture and civilization, Islamic philosophy, comparative religions of positive law and communication studies, and subjects of Islamic pedagogy, for which the Faculty is home. At the Faculty, the teaching process is also carried out in disciplines such as: Islamic sciences, professional disciplines in Islamic sciences (ulumu-l-Qur'an, aqaid, hadith, fiqh), pedagogy, didactics, languages (Arabic, Bosnian, English), Islamic art, Islamic philosophy, Islamic morality and other disciplines for which a special interest is shown.

The Faculty of Islamic Studies performs its educational role for Muslims in Sandžak, Serbia and beyond.

The goal and tasks of the Faculty are realized through: educational work, regular teaching, free activities, study trips, practical teaching, scientific research work, organization of professional and scientific gatherings, publishing activity and the work of the professional service.

The faculty carries out, develops, affirms and organizes the systematic monitoring and use of achievements in modern science, performs nostrification and equivalency of diplomas, provides professional and scientific assistance to the bodies and institutions of the Islamic community, develops cooperation with Islamic faculties and other scientific and educational institutions and associations in the country and abroad.