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The history of SKIA can be traced to a village Muslim Institute located at Bulalo in the town of Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. It was initially developed as a family-administered madrasah, operated and registered under MECS Order No. 24, s. 1985. Pursuant to MECS guidelines and standards for recognition, this madrasah was later incorporated on September 2, 1991 as a non-stock educational foundation with SEC Reg. AN091-195240.
The Islamic Academy was conceived by lawyer Michael O. Mastura, engineer Darwish Al-Gobaishi, and religious leader Salah Muhammad Ali Abdula who were inspired by the First World Conference on Muslim education held in Mecca in 1977. Islamic Education is a system that transmits the revealed and acquired knowledge in order to prepare them for life and enable them to discharge their duties as kalifatul’Lallah with the sole aim of achieving success here and in the hereafter.
Through the organized efforts of Mayor Datu Tucao O. Mastura of Sultan Kudarat, Datu Michael O. Mastura and Hadja Salma V. Mastura, SKIA was formally registered. Originally invited to join the organizational planning were Datu Armando Mastura, Datu Mantil Giok, Hadji Saleh Blah, Engr. Macmod Mending, Ustadza Sakina Hasan, and Ustadz Abdulhamid Ibrahim. The brothers Mastura purchased the adjacent lands to augment the wakaf properties of their grandmother as the permanent SKIA campus.
It was in 1992 that the development plans for SKIA became a reality when Sheik Salah Muhammad Ali Abdula sponsored the officers of Al Khairiah to visit Abu Dhabi. Mayor Datu Tucao Mastura of Sultan Kudarat, Hadji Abdula Camlian and Atty. Mastura made the presentation. With the backing of Dr. Darwish Al-Gobaishi, the philanthropist brothers Matar and Abdula Al Muhairy decided to improve the campus site and erect new structures and facilities. Through the representation of Sheik Salah, additional buildings were financed with the generous support of another benefactor Rashid Al-Khalfan.
A new image brought about a steady increase in enrollment from 247 to 545 during the school 1993-1994. Today, SKIA has a student population of around 1,000. The operation of the Faculty of Human Sciences and Islamic School of Jurisprudence was launched when the Teacher’s College was organized in 1992. The first commencement exercises for the College Department were held in March of 1996.
Evidence of excellence has brought prominence to SKIA in scholarship examinations, government examinations and in co-curricular competitions particularly in the ARMM. Future programs include aside from its current government recognition will be full accreditation of its course offerings.
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