COURSE OVERVIEW

Class begins Sunday, September 19th!

Apply knowledge and skills to over 150 verses of the Quran and many hadith!  Learn hundreds of Quranic Arabic words.  Unfold the deeper meanings of Arabic words via roots and patterns of the advanced morphological forms.

Appreciate the multi-dimensional nature of Quranic Arabic.  Develop linguistic foundations for study of Islamic disciplines such as Islamic theology (العقيدة), Islamic legal theory (أصول الفقه), and Islamic law (الفقه) and Arabic literature.

This easy course is the official prerequisite for the challenging Quranic linguistics series which puts us into the Quranic scholar’s mind via the three primary disciplines of the Arabic language: Morphology, grammar, and rhetoric.

Learning Quranic Linguistics is a three-step process.   The first step, learning Arabic morphology (الصرف), is like planting seeds into the ground. The second step, learning Arabic grammar (النحو), is like watering the tree until its branches are fully developed.  The third step, learning Arabic rhetoric (البلاغة), is the sweet fruit.  

Pre-requisites (or equivalent knowledge)

•  Ability to read/write Arabic alphabet (without understanding ok, without tajwid ok).
•  Al-Qa’ida al-Nuraniyyah or equivalent knowledge/skills

Course Duration: 7 to 8 months (2 hours lecture every Sunday 11:30 AM EST NY TIME)