Courses

The first book of the Madinah series: the nominal sentence, the definite article, the prepositions and the three cases — taught entirely in Arabic, one structure at a time.

The verb enters: past, present and imperative; kāna and inna with their sisters; the dual and the numbers. The sentence stops being a label and starts being an event.

The book that hands the student over to the grammarians: the passive, the derived forms, the manṣūbāt in full, the weak verb, and the noun barred from tanwīn.

The first matn of Nahw, read chapter by chapter: speech and its three parts, the four states of iʿrāb, and the three great lists — what is raised, what is opened, what is lowered.

Ibn Hishām's matn with his own commentary: everything the Ājurrūmiyya asserted is now argued, qualified and evidenced — and the exceptions are named.

A thousand lines of rajaz that hold Nahw and Ṣarf entire, read with Sharḥ Ibn ʿAqīl. The text the Shaykh spent a year on in Morocco, and the end of the path.

The scale of the word: how a three-letter root is weighed against fāʾ-ʿayn-lām, turned through its six bābs, augmented into ten more, and derived into the doer, the done-to, the place and the instrument.

Speech that fits its situation. The three sciences in their order: maʿānī — what the structure of a sentence does; bayān — how one meaning is said many ways; badīʿ — what adorns it once it is sound.