The Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America (IIASA) was established in 1988 as a nonprofit organization in Fairfax, Virginia.
It is a satellite of Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
IIASA is funded by, and serves as an arm of, the Saudi embassy's Religious Affairs Department.
The institute's Board Chairman is the former Saudi ambassador to America (from 1983 to 2005), Prince Bandar Bin Sultan.
"[2] Controversial Saudi cleric and professor at Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, Abd Al-Aziz Fawzan Al-Fawzan, taught at IIASA for a while.