DIPLOMA IN ISLAMIC SCIENCES

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The Diploma in Islamic Sciences is an introductory program that covers one basic classical text in each of the core Islamic sciences. This program is based upon the traditional methodology of study used in the Islamic world for centuries, which is to study a basic, abridged text in every science before moving on to the second level texts in each science and so on until once has achieved mastery of the science. The texts taught in this program have been taught all over the Islamic world for centuries and continue to be taught today. Exceptional students will receive ijāzah to narrate the text with a connected chain back to the author each upon successful completion of an examination. This program will prepare any student who wishes to study the Islamic sciences abroad in the Muslim world. These courses will count towards the Seminary program as well for those who wish to continue once the Seminary program has begun..

 

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    The courses for the diploma are:

    1. Qur’an Memorization
    2. ʾĀdāb Ṭalab Al-ʿIlm/ Mannerism of the Seeker of Knowledge- ilyat Ṭālib Al-ʿIlm” by Bakr ʾAbū Zayd
    3. Fiqh/Jurisprudence (all schools offered)- “Matn ʾAbī Shujāʿ” by ʾAbū Shujāʿ Al-ʾAṣfahānī/ ”ʾAkhṣar Al-Mukhtaṣarāt” by ʾIbn Balbān Al-Dimashqī/ “Mukhtaṣar Al-Qudūrī ” by ʾAbū Al-usayn Al-Qudūrī/ Risālat ʾIbn ʾAbī Zayd by ʾIbn ʾAbī Zayd Al-Qayrawānī
    4. ʾUṣūl Al-Fiqh/Legal Theory – “Al-Waraqāt” by ʾAbū Al-Maʿālī Al-Juwāynī
    5. Muṣṭalaḥ Al-Ḥadīth/Hadith Terminology- “Al-Bayqūniyyah” by ʿUmar/Ṭaha Al-Bayqūnī
    6. Ḥadīth/ Prophetic Traditions-“AlʾArbaʿīn Al-Nawawiyyah” by ʿAbū Zakariyyā Al-Nawawī
    7. Naḥw/Arabic Grammar- “Al-ʾĀjurūmiyyah” by ʾIbn ʾĀjurrūm Al-Ṣanhājī
    8. Ṣarf/Arabic Morphology- “Naẓm Al-Maqṣūd Fī Fan Al-Ṣarf” by ʾAmad ʾibn ʿAbd Al-Raḥīm
    9. Balāghah/Arabic Rhetoric- “Miʾat Al-Maʿānī Wa Al-Bayān” by Muib Al-Dīʾibn Al-Shiḥnah Al-alabī
    10. Al-ʿArūd/Poetic Meter Forms– “ʾAhdā Sabīl ʾIlā ʿIlmayy Al-Khalil” by Maḥmūd Muṣṭafā
    11. Al-ʾImlāʾ/Arabic Script– Qawāʿid Al-ʾImlāʾ by ʿAbd Al-Salām Harūn
    12. Al-ʾAdab/Literature- “Qaṣīdat Bānat Suʿād” by KaʿʾIbn Zuhayr
    13. ʿAqīdah/ Theology- “Al-Ṭaḥāwiyyah” by ʾAbū Jaʿfar Al-Ṭaḥāwī
    14. ʿUlūm Al-Qur’ān/ Qur’an Sciences- “Dhat Al-ʾAfnān Fī ʿUlūm Al-Qurʾān” By WalīʾIbn ʾIdrīs Al-Menīsī
    15. Tafsīr/ Exegesis- “Tafsīr Al-Jalalayn” by Jalāl Al-DīAl-Suyūtī and by Jalāl Al-DīAl-Maallī
    16. Tajwīd/ Recitation- “Tufat Al-ʾAṭfāl” SulaymāAl-Jamzūrī
    17. Farāʾid/ Inheritance- “Al-Raabiyyah” with “Al-ʾUrjūzah al-Walīdiyyah Al-Mutammimah Li Al-Raabiyyah” by WalīʾIbn ʾIdrīs Al-Menīsī
    18. Sīrah/Prophetic Biography- “Al-Raḥīq Al-Makhtūm” by Ṣafī Al-Ramān Al-Mubārakafūrī
    19. Tarīkh/ History- “ʾItmām Al-Wafāʾ Fi Sīrat Al-Khulafāʾ” by Muammad Al-Khuḍarī
    20. Manṭiq/ Logic- “Al-Sullam Al-Munawraq” by ʿAbd Al-RamāAl-ʾAkhḍarī
    21. Maqāsid/ Divine Objectives of Legislation- ʾItḥāf Al-Qāsid Bī Naẓm Akām Wa Qawāʿid Al-Maqāsid” by  Muammad Saʿd Al-Yūbī
    22. Qawāʿid Fiqhiyyah/ Legal Maxims- “Manẓūmat Al-Qawāʿid Al-Fiqhiyyah” by ʿAbd Al-Ramān Al-Saʿdī