Every book
The whole reading list, level by level. Books we have started are marked; the rest are mapped so you can see the shape of the course before you commit to it.
Every book says where its Arabic can be read. 35 of the 48 can be read free online in full, and each book page names the source and why we may point you there. We link rather than mirror: the texts are out of copyright, the modern printed editions of them are not.
English is a shorter story, and we do it ourselves. Every published translation of these books belongs to whoever made it, so ours is written a lesson at a time and gathered into a whole-book file that says on its own last page how far it has got. Unfinished and honest beats borrowed.
Foundation
2 of 10 books open
| Book | Author | Subject | Status | The text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Ājurrūmiyya | Ibn Ājurrūm al-Ṣanhājī | Arabic | 4 of 30 lessons | Read free |
| Al-Arbaʿūn al-Nawawiyya | Imām al-Nawawī | Hadith | 6 of 42 lessons | Read free |
| Nūr al-Īḍāḥ | al-Shurunbulālī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Al-ʿAqīda al-Ṭaḥāwiyya | Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī | Beliefs | Planned | Read free |
| Bidāyat al-Hidāya | Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī | Spirituality | Planned | Read free |
| Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl | Sulaymān al-Jamzūrī | Qur’an | Planned | Read free |
| Ayyuhā al-Walad | Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī | Spirituality | Planned | Print only |
| Taʿlīm al-Mutaʿallim | Burhān al-Dīn al-Zarnūjī | Etiquette | Planned | Old printing |
| Al-Luʾluʾ al-Maknūn fī Sīrat al-Nabī | Muḥammad al-ʿAlawī al-Mālikī | Prophetic Stories | Planned | In copyright |
| Al-Muqaddima al-Jazariyya | Ibn al-Jazarī | Qur’an | Planned | Read free |
Intermediate
12 books mapped, none written yet
| Book | Author | Subject | Status | The text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ʿIlm al-Ṣīgha | Arabic | Planned | Print only | |
| Hidāyat al-Naḥw | Arabic | Planned | Print only | |
| Mukhtaṣar al-Qudūrī | Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Qudūrī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn | Imām al-Nawawī | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Nukhbat al-Fikar | Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Al-Waraqāt | Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Tafsīr al-Jalālayn | al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī | Qur’an | Planned | Read free |
| Uṣūl al-Shāshī | Niẓām al-Dīn al-Shāshī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Mabādiʾ al-Uṣūl | Saʿīd Aḥmad Palanpūrī | Fiqh | Planned | In copyright |
| Al-Tibyān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān | Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ṣābūnī | Qur’an | Planned | In copyright |
| Al-Shamāʾil al-Muḥammadiyya | Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Al-Bidāya min al-Kifāya | Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī | Beliefs | Planned | Print only |
Advanced
13 books mapped, none written yet
| Book | Author | Subject | Status | The text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharḥ al-Wiqāya | Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ | al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Nūr al-Anwār | Mullā Jīwan | Fiqh | Planned | Print only |
| Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafiyya | Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī | Beliefs | Planned | Print only |
| Durūs al-Balāgha | Arabic | Planned | Read free | |
| Tashīl al-Manṭiq | Badakhshānī | Beliefs | Planned | In copyright |
| Kanz al-Daqāʾiq | Abū al-Barakāt al-Nasafī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Al-Mukhtār lil-Fatwā | ʿAbd Allāh al-Mawṣilī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Al-Fawz al-Kabīr fī Uṣūl al-Tafsīr | Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī | Qur’an | Planned | Read free |
| Al-Kāfiya | Ibn al-Ḥājib | Arabic | Planned | Read free |
| Mukhtaṣar al-Maʿānī | Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī | Arabic | Planned | Print only |
| Tārīkh al-Khulafāʾ | Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī | History | Planned | Read free |
| Mukhtaṣar Minhāj al-Qāṣidīn | Ibn Qudāma al-Maqdisī | Spirituality | Planned | Read free |
Specialisation
7 books mapped, none written yet
| Book | Author | Subject | Status | The text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Hidāya | Burhān al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Anwār al-Tanzīl (al-Bayḍāwī) | al-Qāḍī al-Bayḍāwī | Qur’an | Planned | Read free |
| Al-Sirājī fī al-Mīrāth | al-Sajāwandī | Fiqh | Planned | Print only |
| Bidāyat al-Mujtahid | Ibn Rushd (Averroes) | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Sharḥ Jāmī (al-Fawāʾid al-Ḍiyāʾiyya) | ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī | Arabic | Planned | Print only |
| Al-Tawḍīḥ wa-l-Talwīḥ | Ṣadr al-Sharīʿa, with al-Taftāzānī | Fiqh | Planned | Read free |
| Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī | Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥarīrī | Arabic | Planned | Read free |
Dawra
6 books mapped, none written yet
| Book | Author | Subject | Status | The text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī | Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim | Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| The Four Sunan | Abū Dāwūd · al-Tirmidhī · al-Nasāʾī · Ibn Māja | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ | Imām Mālik ibn Anas | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār | Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī | Hadith | Planned | Read free |
| Muwaṭṭaʾ Muḥammad | Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī | Hadith | Planned | Read free |