The Faculty was firstly established under the name of The Faculty of Arabic Studies according the Presidential Decree no.
(293) for 1983. Then the name was changed into the Faculty of Dar El Uloum according to the Presidential Decree no. (470) on 29/11/1999.
The faculty includes seven departments:
Linguistics, Semitic and Eastern Studies
Rhetoric, Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature
Syntax, Morphology and Metric
Islamic History & Islamic Culture
Islamic Philosophy
Literary Studies
Islamic Law