Seven levels and their books.

What you study

• This and that; what? who? and yes/no questions
• Al- and tanwin; masculine and feminine
• In, on, from, to; idafa; the adjective
• Pronouns, attached and separate
• Plurals, the dual, numbers 3–10
• The names: ism, fi'l, harf, jumla
• Masculine and feminine endings
• Plurals learnt as words

At the end of this level, the student reads a short vowelled passage for meaning, asks and answers simple questions, and understands al-Fatiha and the fixed words of the prayer.

Books

Grammar course book

DAA'II Foundation, in the order of topics of Madinah Book 1التَّأْسِيسُ

Stages

1. 1Your prayer and al-Fatiha
2. 2The noun phrase
3. 3More than one

Core vocabulary by the end: about 400 words.

What you study

• The complete sentence; noun, verb and particle
• Past, present and command verbs
• The doer and the object
• Subject and predicate; verbal and nominal sentences
• The present verb in raf', nasb and jazm
• Kana and inna and their sisters
• The noun in jarr; the adjective
• The three-letter root
• Form I in past, present and command

At the end of this level, the student identifies the parts of a simple sentence in an ayah or hadith (doer, object, subject, predicate) and explains the case of each.

Books

Grammar course book

al-Nahw al-Wadih, elementary stage, Part 1النَّحْوُ الْوَاضِحُ، الْمَرْحَلَةُ الِابْتِدَائِيَّةُ

Grammar text (matn)

al-Ajurrumiyyah, chapters on the topics aboveالْآجُرُّومِيَّةُ

Stages

1. 1The sentence, the verb, the doer and the object
2. 2Subject, predicate and the present verb
3. 3Kana, inna, jarr and the adjective

Core vocabulary by the end: about 600 words in all.

What you study

• Built and declined words; the signs of i'rab, original and secondary
• Weak-ended verbs and nouns; implied i'rab
• The five verbs, the five nouns, the dual and the plurals
• Idafa; definite and indefinite; pronouns, relatives and demonstratives
• The passive and its subject
• Maf'ul mutlaq, maf'ul li-ajlih, adverbs of time and place
• Particles of nasb and jazm; the condition
• Full conjugation of past and present with every pronoun
• The command
• First masdars
• Weak verbs: mithal, ajwaf, naqis, muda'af

At the end of this level, the student gives the i'rab of each word in an unseen ayah or short hadith, including the secondary signs.

Books

Grammar course book

al-Nahw al-Wadih, elementary stage, Part 2النَّحْوُ الْوَاضِحُ، الْمَرْحَلَةُ الِابْتِدَائِيَّةُ

Grammar text (matn)

al-Ajurrumiyyah, continuedالْآجُرُّومِيَّةُ

Morphology (sarf)

Imam University series, Level 2 sarf bookالصَّرْفُ

Core vocabulary by the end: about 1,500 words in all.

What you study

• The predicate as a clause or phrase; anna and the interpreted masdar
• Intransitive and transitive verbs
• Istithna', hal, tamyiz, the vocative
• Diptotes
• The followers: adjective, emphasis, conjunction, substitute
• Bare and augmented verbs; verb forms II–X
• Active and passive participles
• Hamzat al-wasl and hamzat al-qat'
• Nouns of time, place and instrument

At the end of this level, the student parses a vowelled passage with hal, tamyiz, istithna' and the followers, and identifies the form of each verb.

Books

Grammar course book

al-Nahw al-Wadih, elementary stage, Part 3النَّحْوُ الْوَاضِحُ، الْمَرْحَلَةُ الِابْتِدَائِيَّةُ

Grammar text (matn)

al-Ajurrumiyyah, completedالْآجُرُّومِيَّةُ

Morphology (sarf)

Imam University series, Level 2 sarf book, continuedالصَّرْفُ

Core vocabulary by the end: about 2,700 words in all.

What you study

• Subject and predicate in depth: fronting and omission
• Verbal nouns of command (asma' al-af'al); wonder (ta'ajjub)
• Verbs of approach; la that negates the whole kind
• Idafa in depth
• The scale (mizan)
• I'lal and ibdal
• Weak verbs in depth
• The emphasised verb

At the end of this level, the student explains the form of any verb or noun by its scale, and parses sentences with fronting and omission.

Books

Grammar text (matn)

Qatr al-Nadaقَطْرُ النَّدَى

Morphology (sarf)

Shadha al-'Arfشَذَا الْعَرْفِ

Core vocabulary by the end: about 3,700 words in all.

What you study

• The condition in depth
• The masdar and derived nouns, and what they govern
• Definite nouns in depth; numbers in full
• Intensive forms, the resembling adjective, the elative
• Maqsur, manqus and mamdud
• Broken plural patterns

At the end of this level, the student reads a short passage from a book of the scholars with case endings only and explains its harder structures.

Books

Grammar text (matn)

Qatr al-Nada, continuedقَطْرُ النَّدَى

Morphology (sarf)

Shadha al-'Arf, continuedشَذَا الْعَرْفِ

Core vocabulary by the end: about 4,700 words in all.

What you study

• Diminutive and relative adjective (nisba)
• Ighra', tahdhir, ikhtisas, ishtighal
• Calls for help and lament; pausal forms
• I'rab of whole clauses
• Advanced morphology

At the end of this level, the student reads unvowelled books of the scholars and their explanations, and studies with a teacher in Arabic.

Books

Grammar text (matn)

The Alfiyyah, with Sharh Ibn 'Aqil, beginsالْأَلْفِيَّةُ بِشَرْحِ ابْنِ عَقِيلٍ

Morphology (sarf)

Lamiyyat al-Af'alلَامِيَّةُ الْأَفْعَالِ

Rhetoric (balagha)

A balagha text, chosen by the ustadh

Core vocabulary by the end: about 6,000 words in all.