This is the course that taught a generation of non-Arab students to read Arabic properly — originally devised and taught at the Islamic University of Madinah for students arriving from all over the world with no Arabic at all.
Over the years it has enabled students to become genuinely competent, and competent enough to participate in scholarly work: Qur'anic exegesis, hadith, fiqh, seerah, history, and both classical and modern Arabic literature.
Why This Course Rather Than Another
- It is concise — three books, each reasonably short — while remaining extensive in coverage. A student can see the end of it, which matters more for completion rates than anything else.
- It combines modern Arabic vocabulary with Islamic terminology from the Qur'an and Sunnah, so a student ends up able to read a newspaper and a hadith rather than only one of the two.
- It builds understanding of hundreds of Qur'anic verses, ahadith, Arabic parables and poetry along the way — the examples are the material itself, not invented sentences.
This Edition
The three-volume revised edition from Darussalam is produced in the best quality available, with full-color pages throughout. The color is functional as well as attractive: variation in the text distinguishes and highlights specific grammatical details for emphasis, which in an Arabic course does real work.
One improvement over earlier printings: all three volumes now contain the English lessons, where previously only the first did. Each book opens from the right in Arabic and from the left in English.
Darussalam has also introduced the Language Master, a device to assist with learning the language, which can be used alongside these books.
Who It Is For
Anyone serious about learning Arabic in order to access the sources directly. Self-studying adults, study groups and classroom teaching — the course was designed for classroom use and adapts well to both. Students preparing for formal Islamic study.
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