The Islamic Development Management Project (IDMP) was established in 1995 at the School of Social Sciences, University Science Malaysia. As a research and education project, which gathers its members from various disciplines and schools within the University, IDMP aims at enhancing the field of Islamic development beyond the confines of the development per se. It takes a multi-disciplinary approach to development, integrating social, economic and political tools of analysis to understand development in an integrative and holistic manner.

The IDMP goes beyond the study of Islamic economics, Islamic development and Islamic economic development to scrutinize and construct a conceptual and practical framework of the management of economics, development, and economic development in an Islamic perspective. As development is seen as an all-embracing aspect of life, from spiritual to material and physical, and from the level the individual to that of society, state and beyond, IDMP intents to cover the whole range of horizons of human life, formulating and pioneering a new integrated discipline that IDMP terms 'Islamic Development Management'.