Build your foundation

Learning to Read, then Learning to Write, then Tajwīd. By the end you read any vowelled text aloud correctly, write what you hear, and recite with the rules. Each course opens when the one before it is finished.

1. 1
   Learning to Read

   The Arabic script and its sounds: read the letters, join them, say them correctly

   • Recognise all 28 letters in initial, medial, final and isolated form
   • Read any vowelled word aloud without guessing

   ~30 min3 lessons

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2. 2
   Learning to Write

   Form the letters, join them, and take dictation

   ~25 min3 lessons

   Opens when you finish Learning to Read.

3. 3
   Tajwīd: the rules of recitation

   Articulation, assimilation and lengthening, by ear

   ~25 min4 lessons

   Opens when you finish Learning to Read.

4. 4
   Expert Arabic: Reading the Mutūn

   Working through a classical primer with commentary

   ~10 min3 lessons

   Opens when you finish Learning to Read.

5. 5
   Live classes with a teacher — brothers' circleOptional

   A weekly live class for brothers, with the teacher, on the text you are reading

   ~5 min2 lessons

   Opens when you finish Learning to Read.

Create an account to start the first course and keep your place on the path.