Courses with Mawlana Samir Ali & Mawlana Mansur Nassiri

Instructors: Mawlana Samir Ali (Syntax), Mawlana Mansur Nassiri (Morphology)

This course introduces students to Arabic morphology (ṣarf) and Arabic syntax (naḥw) concurrently with practical application of newly learned concepts through various Quranic verses and Hadith.

Morphology: Students will potentially learn all the categories of regular verb forms (mujarrad).  In one semester, through the study of morphology students will be able to derive over 70 meanings of any regular verb which will be multiplied each semester.

Syntax: Students will be introduced to the essentials of Arabic syntax through the instructor’s lectures with textual study and supplementary exercise questions. By the end of the course, students will have the introductory knowledge of the science of syntax and will be able to identify declinable (muʿrab) and indeclinable (mabnī) words while also gaining a general knowledge of grammatical states of words in the Arabic language.

Instructor: Mawlana Mansur Nassiri

Students will read Shaykh Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi’s classic reader series: Qasas al-Nabiyyin Volume 1.