According to a news article from 2010 the university has close religious ties with the Turkish Nurcu movement.

[4] The IUASR offers accredited Bachelors and master's degrees and is called Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam.

[citation needed] From 2003 the university is located in the North of Rotterdam, in a characteristic stately building on the Bergsingel 135.

The building previously belonged to Zadkine MLO and provided practical science education and was known as van 't Hof Instituut.

"These have been forthcoming from private individuals, foundations and Turkish religious entrepreneurs, most of them part of the personal contact network of principal Prof. Dr. A.