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by discipline.

Ten classical sciences, organised the way they are taught in the traditional curriculum. Open a discipline to see its series, its standalone notes, and the texts they map to.

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Disciplines

  • Qur'an

    Recitation, memorisation, and the sciences of the Book.

    Notes on Quranic studies — translation, structure, the sciences of revelation, and study aids for memorisation.
    2 notesBrowse

  • Tafsir

    Sūrah-by-sūrah exegesis of the Qur'an.

    Tafsir notes organised by sūrah, drawing on the classical commentaries and methodologies of the mufassirūn.
    5 notesBrowse

  • Tajwid

    Rules and refinements of Quranic recitation.

    Treatments of articulation points, the qualities of letters, and the disciplined art of reciting the Qur'an as it was revealed.
    2 notesBrowse

  • Hadith

    Narrations of the Prophet ﷺ — collected, explained, contextualised.

    Notes on the canonical hadith collections — Bukhārī, the Forty of al-Nawawī, Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn, the Muwaṭṭaʾ — with commentary and lessons drawn from each tradition.
    22 notes · 2 seriesBrowse

  • Usul al-Hadith

    The methodology by which hadith are weighed and graded.

    The classical sciences of hadith — the categories of narrators, the gradations of soundness, the conditions of authentication, and the foundational works of the muṣṭalaḥ tradition.
    33 notes · 2 seriesBrowse

  • Fiqh

    Practical jurisprudence rooted in the classical Hanafi school.

    Hanafi fiqh study notes, beginning with the foundational primers (al-Qudūrī, Nūr al-Īḍāḥ) and progressing through the canonical chapters of jurisprudence.
    21 notes · 2 seriesBrowse

  • Usul al-Fiqh

    The legal theory beneath the rulings.

    Notes on the theory of Islamic jurisprudence — the sources of law, the conditions of ijtihād, the rules of inference, and the canonical Hanafi works of usūl.
    9 notes · 1 seriesBrowse

  • Aqidah

    What every Muslim is required to believe, and why.

    Foundational creed in the tradition of Ahl al-Sunnah wa l-Jamāʿah — the articles of faith, the attributes of God, and the responsibilities of belief.
    7 notesBrowse

  • Arabic

    Naḥw, ṣarf, and the language of revelation.

    Notes on classical Arabic grammar and morphology — Tasheel al-Naḥw, Hidāyat al-Naḥw, Qaṭr al-Nadā, and the readers used to bridge the language of the Qur'an and Sunnah.
    9 notes · 1 seriesBrowse

  • Sirah & History

    The life of the Prophet ﷺ and the witnesses to it.

    Biographies of the Prophet ﷺ, his Companions, the early generations, and the great scholars of the Islamic tradition — narrated from the classical chronicles.
    4 notesBrowse