DHIU was established as an Islamic Academy in 1986 and formally upgraded to a university in May 2009. The philosophy upheld by DHIU was the unique product of prolonged discourses and deliberations among great visionary scholars and supportive community leaders who were deeply concerned about the dichotomous view towards education as religious and secular.
M.M. Basheer Musliyar(1929-1987), C.H Haidaroos Musliyar (1930-1994),Dr. U Bapputty Haji (1929-2003),Sayyid Umar Ali Shihab Thangal,Panakkad (1941-2008),Pro. E. Muhmmed (1944-2010) and Shaikhna Cherussery Zainundheen Musliyar (1937-2016) came and work together in order to bring Islamic education in true and traditional way. From its outset, DHIU continues to be academic establishments in dynamic equilibrium with its religious and social ventures striving continuously for shaping a knowledgeable generation who are able rekindle the unparalleled Islamic legacy of knowledge.
Now Dr. Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi ,the vice chancellor of DHIU, spearheads the educational movement of DHIU that stretched its working spheres to other states of India to implement the replica of DHIU so as to uplift Muslims belong to these states in educational and cultural dimensions and create and sustain a community of learning in which students acquire knowledge and apply it in the development of society and nation with due consideration for ethical and religious values.
