Through the popular Ḥanafī primer, Marāqī al-Saʿādāt by Abū ‘l-Ikhlāṣ Ḥasan al-Shurunbulālī as the reference, students will study 4 out of the 5 pillars of Islam, namely Ṣalāt (ritual prayers), Zakāt (charity), Ṣawm (fasting), and Ḥajj  (pilgrimage). Each section will concentrate on understanding the fundamentals and applying the knowledge to various contemporary situations.

No prerequisites necessary. 

This course will provide an introduction to Theology and will cover the major doctrines of Islam. The course will also cover the emergence of various sectarian sects in Islamic History and their deviant ideologies. Some of the concepts covered in the course are the nature of God, revelation, prophecy, freewill and predestination. The course will be taught through the English reading of one of the earliest creedal primers, Al-ʿAqīdah al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah.

No prerequisites necessary.

Verily for you in the Prophet  was an excellent model (Aḥzāb, Q 33: 21). For a Muslim, the study of the Sīrah, the life of the Prophet, is not a simple historical pursuit. It is, instead, a search for divine guidance. This course, in shā Allah, by delving into the major events of the Prophet’s life, will extract the foundational principles of developing a Muslim worldview as well as how to function through the prism of that worldview in one’s own context.

This course consists of 4 total sessions. 

No prerequisite necessary.

Students will learn the four primary characteristics of a noun and how to conjugate them in the nominative, accusative, and genitive cases. Students will then progress to combining nouns to form various forms of nominal sentences. Nearing the end of the semester, students will begin conjugating past tense verbs.

Prerequisite: Quran reading fluency