This research analyzed the strategies adopted by Islamic universities in three cities in the Middle East, namely Cairo in Egypt, Median in Saudi Arabia, and at Qom in Iran, to attract international students. It was found that these universities recruited students mostly through religious schools in Asia and Africa where graduates of these universities were engaged in teaching. Although graduates of these universities disseminated the knowledge gained from Islamic Universities in the Middle East as authentic when they returned to their country of origin, in the places where they were engaged in teaching, they preferred to adapt their religious knowledge to the local religious circumstances.

This project undertook a comparative and genealogical approach to modern Islamic scientific/technological and regional socio/economic issues, focusing on Southeast Asia, Middle East, Central Asia and other related areas.
Based on well-coordinated preparatory arrangements with local scholars and researchers, each Japanese team performed innovative research activities in the fields of classical astronomy, ceramics, pharmaceutics, and architecture in the most updated analytical context, resulting in the promotion studies of Islamic cultural preservation activities. Those contemporary socio/economic issues, confronted by modern Islamic societies and economies, were also grappled sometimes from critical viewpoints, producing most updated analyses of ICT application, social medical services and Islamic finance. A series of six symposia brouht to the fore vivid developments of constructive Islamic developments which will contribute to the benefits for both Islamic and non-Islamic societies.

This study focused on the acculturation of life styles (in the four dimensions of family, religious group, economic activity, and education) through the transcultural interaction between Muslim minority and non-Muslim majority in East Asian societies and aimed at clarifying the situation and challenges of coexistence of Muslims and non-Muslims in these societies. The results of cross-national, historical and institutional analyses suggest that local-level integration policies or multicultural coexistence policies based on the situation in each local community are preferable to the national-level unitary integration policy in Japan, where Muslim minority population is small but diverse and non-Muslim majority population is also diverse in terms of the interaction with Muslims.

1) History of technology : Through the studies of the reconstruction of sugar production in agriculture, the analysis of Islamic ceramic in ceramic industry and the consideration on the medical science relating to the social consciousness, the genealogy of Islamic technology from the Early Islamic period to the period just before the Modern age was recovered. 2) Broad-region studies : Through the analysis of the Islamic societies at Middle East, South-Eastern Asia and Central Asia, the movements of the area became evident including the case where the economic activity based on the regional features became extinct because of the appearance of new resources, and the cases where the current IT has been applicated positively to the many fields of the Islamic societies.