In progress — 10 lessons written, in 2 of the 48 books on the ladder. The rest are mapped and not yet taught.
From Umm to the Ummah من الأمّ إلى الأمّة

Courses

Beliefs العقيدة

What Muslims hold to be true about God, prophethood and the hereafter, and how the classical schools argued for it.

The books, level by level

Which text comes when. Start at the top unless you already read Arabic — each book says how much of it exists here.

Foundation

Al-ʿAqīda al-Ṭaḥāwiyya

Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī

A short creed written in the third century and accepted far beyond the school that produced it. It states what is held, in order, without arguing for it — which is why it is read first.

Planned

Intermediate

Al-Bidāya min al-Kifāya

Nūr al-Dīn al-Ṣābūnī

Māturīdī theology at the point where a student stops receiving statements and starts following proofs — the step between the Ṭaḥāwiyya and al-Taftāzānī.

Planned

Advanced

Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafiyya

Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī

Theology as argument rather than statement. The most widely taught kalām text in the world, and the one place the classical curriculum meets philosophy head on.

Planned

Tashīl al-Manṭiq

Badakhshānī

Logic: definition, proposition, syllogism. Not a religious science, but the tool every later theology and legal-theory text assumes you already hold.

Planned

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