The University of Kufa is an Iraqi university located in Najaf, Iraq. It was founded in 1987 and comprises 21 faculties. The faculty of Medicine was established a decade earlier and attached to Mustansiriya University. In 1989, the College of Arts was established with only two departments: the Arabic Language Department and the Department of History. In 1991, the regime of Saddam Hussein closed the university after an uprising in March 1991, but two years later it was re-opened.