Core Curriculum

Our core curriculum emphasizes Qur'an memorization (ḥifdh) and  reading (nazara/qira'a in Ḥafṣ) as well as sharia rulings regarding the five pillars and key rituals ('ibādāt). Our faculty uses the Safar curriculum and the Iqra' series to guide their lesson planning. 

We divide students roughly according to age so that they can benefit from small class sizes. Each teacher teaches 10-12 students. This table shows the age-segmented sections and summarizes the texts they cover: 

In addition to the Safar books, teachers draw from texts such as al-Ghazālī's Revivification (as adapted by the Fons Vitae Children's Project), Shaykh Abu Fattah Abdul Ghuddah's Islamic Manners and the Ḥaḍāna Curriculum used in Tarim, Hadramawt. 

In the future we aspire to offer classes on texts in Hadith and logic such as the Shamāʿil Muḥammadiyya and al-Abhari's Isagoge (A Classical Primer on Logic). We also hope to offer classes in Arabic grammar and morphology that cover texts such as Alif Baa, al-Ājurrūmiyyah, Shadh al-'Arf fī Fan as-Sarf, Naḥw Mīr and/or the Ājrūmīya and classes about Muslim notables that cover texts such as Hilyat al-Awliya' wa Tabaqat al-Asfiya and Qasas an-Nabiyyeen.