Contribute
Write a lesson, and put your name on it
Alyph Academy is built by volunteers. Every lesson carries the name of the person who taught it and the book it teaches from. Your work is credited to you, with a page of your own, permanently and for free.
What you get out of it
Ṣadaqa jāriya
Knowledge that keeps being read is the classical example of a charity that does not stop. Everything here stays free permanently, so what you write keeps working.
A named credit
Your own page listing your credentials and everything you have written. Not a byline buried in a footer.
Review by a scholar
Your draft is read closely by someone qualified, and comes back with notes. That is worth having whether or not you publish with us.
The discipline of sourcing
Every claim here carries its edition and its reference. Writing to that standard once changes how you read afterwards.
What we need
- Lessons on the Forty. Thirty-nine of the forty-two are unwritten. This is the most useful thing you can do.
- Checking what is already published. Read a lesson against a printed edition and tell us where we are wrong. Corrections are published with your name unless you ask otherwise.
- Arabic and translation. Checking vocalisation, and rendering into other languages.
- Recording. Recitation of the Arabic, and short spoken lessons.
How it works
- Write and send us a draft.
Tell us which hadith you want and we will send you the template a lesson uses — Arabic, transliteration, your own translation, reading notes, and a row for every source. Do not send a translation you did not make: published English translations are copyrighted.
- A scholar reads it.
Review is by Sh. Sibghatullah. Expect notes rather than a yes or no — most drafts come back once.
- It publishes under your name.
The lesson is yours and carries your name. If a second scholar goes over it, they are credited separately with the date — we never put the same name in both places, since checking your own work is proofreading.
- It stays yours, and it stays free.
We do not pay contributors and we do not charge readers. If we are ever wrong we correct it publicly, with the date and what changed.
Get in touch
Write to us with which hadith or which chapter you would like to take, and a paragraph about where you studied. That paragraph goes on your page, so a reader can weigh the lesson knowing who taught it.
We are not taking donations and are not asking for money. Alyph Academy is being incorporated as a Michigan nonprofit; until that is finished, the only thing we are asking anyone for is work.