THE ROLE OF ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN IMPROVING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ISLAMIC ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITY

Era Sonita (Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business, IAIN Bukittinggi)
Miswardi Miswardi (Lectuter in Islamic Banking Study Program, IAIN Bukittinggi)
Nasfi Nasfi (Sharia Banking Study Program Lecturer, STES Manna Wa Salwa, Padang Panjang)

International Journal of Social and Management Studies (IJOSMAS)
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): April 2021

As a religion, Islam is a vision and way of life in taking action. In the field of entrepreneurship, research has proven that religion has a close relationship in realizing economic development. The topic of the role of entrepreneurial universities has attracted the attention of researchers by enriching the literature. However, the discussion on the role of Islamic entrepreneurial universities in economic development is still minimal. The main objective of this paper is to explore Islamic tertiary institutions as religious-based universities that can contribute to economic development through religious-based entrepreneurial activities, with the method used in writing this article is a literature review. The discussion started with sustainable economic development, then how entrepreneurial universities have an impact on economic development. Then try to explain how the relationship between Islam and entrepreneurship and then what is the entrepreneurial condition that has existed so far in Islamic universities.