ARABIC
Qur’ānic Arabic 1A
Course Description & Objectives:
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with Qur’ānic Arabic. This 12 week course will introduce students to Qur’ānic vocabulary, grammar, and elementary level tafsīr (exegesis). Additional materials will be introduced regularly to aid students in their learning process while simultaneously reinforcing online learning. By the end of the course, students will have a good command of Qur’ānic vocabulary, grammar, and a better understanding of the shorter chapters of the Qur’ān. Our hope is to enable devotees to have better comprehension of the Qur’ān during both, prayer and devotional recitation.
The minimum requirement for this course is knowledge of the Arabic alphabet and its pronunciation.
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Instructor: Yama Mohammad
Time: TBA
Beginning:
Cost: $750 (per student, per quarter)
Location: Online via Zoom
Age: 14 +
Duration: 12 Weeks per quarter
Intermediate Classical Arabic (4 quarters)
Course Description & Objectives:
Students in the intermediate level must have prior knowledge of the basic grammar and selected vocabulary list covered in the elementary level. The focus of this course will be to have strong command of classical Arabic grammar – syntax and morphology, a wider repertoire of vocabulary, and an emphasis on reading authentic text with comprehension from the classics, including the Qur’an and Hadith.
Objectives:
- Have expansive repertoire of vocabulary
- Read authentic material with higher fluency and comprehension.
- Emphasis on foundational Arabic grammar.
- Mastery of the ten morphological forms
Instructor: Yama Mohammad
Time: Monday – Thursday 7:30 PM – 8:45 PM CST.
Beginning: June 5, 2023 – July 6, 2025
Cost: $750 per quarter. 10% off for early registration | Ends April 30th.
Location: Online via Zoom
Age: 14 +
Duration: 20 Sessions
al-Ājurrūmīyyah: a classical Arabic primer on syntax
Course Description & Objective:
This course is intended for students with foundational knowledge of Arabic grammar or at least one year of Arabic. Al-Ājurrūmīyyah is a classical Arabic primer on the science of syntax. It was written by the great Moroccan master Abū ‘Abdallāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Dāwūd al-Ṣanhājī (D. 723 AH), known as Ibn Ājurrūm. The text is very short, concise, and succinct. Serious students of the Arabic language and sacred Islamic sciences are highly encouraged to commit the text to memory. This course is a pre-requisite to qaṭr al-nadā and taṣrīf al-‘izzī.
Objectives: This course will be taught in English while using Arabic technical terms related to the topic.
• الْمُقَدِّمَة A brief Introduction to the science of Arabic language, history, and the text Al-Ājurrūmīyyah.
• بَابُ الْإِعْرَاب – On Inflection
• بَابُ مَعْرِفَة عَلَامَات الْإِعْرَاب – Recognition of the Signs of Inflection
• بَابُ الْأَفْعَال – On Verbs
• بَابُ مَرْفُوعَات الْأَسْمَاء – On the Marfūʿāt (nominative case)
• بَابُ الْفَاعِل – On the Agent
• بَابُ الْمَفْعُول الَّذِيْ لَمْ يُسَمَّ فَاعِلُه – On The Object Who’s Agent is Not Named.
• بَابُ الْمُبْتَدَأ وَالْخَبَر – On the Subject and Predicate
• بَابُ الْعَوَامِل الدَّاخِلَة عَلَى الْمُبْتَدَأ وَالْخَبَر On the Agents that Affect the Subject and Predicate
• بَابُ النَّعْت – On the Adjective
• بَابُ الْعَطْف – On Coordination
• بَابُ التَّوكِيْد – On Corroboration
• بَابُ الْبَدَل – On Substitution
• – بَابُ مَنْصُوبَات الْأَسْمَاء – On the Manṣūbāt (accusative case)
• بَابُ الْمَفْعُول بِه – On the Direct Object
• بَابُ الْمَصْدَر – On the Verbal Noun
• بَابُ ظَرْف الزَّمَان وَظَرْف الْمَكَان – On Time and Space Qualifier
• بَابُ الْحَال – On the Circumstantial Qualifier
• بَابُ التَّمْيِيز – On Specification
• بَابُ الْإِسْتِثْنَاء – On the Elements of Exception
• بَابُ لَا – On ‘No.’
• بَابُ الْمُنَادَى – On the Vocative
• بَابُ الْمَفْعُول مِن أَجْلِه – On the Object of Reason
• بَابُ الْمَفْعُول مَعَه – On the Object of Accompaniment
• بَابُ الْمَخْفُوضَات مِنَ الْأَسْمَاء – On the makhfūḍāt (genitive case).
Instructor: Yama Mohammad
Time: Monday – Thursday 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM CST.
Beginning: June 5, 2023 – July 6, 2025
Cost: $800. 10% off for early registration | Ends October 31th.
Location: Online via Zoom
Age: 14 +
Duration: 20 Sessions