Qur’an القرآن

Recitation, the rules of tajwīd, and reading the text with the classical commentaries rather than around them.

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

Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl

Sulaymān al-Jamzūrī

Sixty-one lines of verse covering the rules of tajwīd — the nūn sākina, the madd, and the rest. Memorised by beginners because it is short and because it is complete.

Planned

Al-Muqaddima al-Jazariyya

Ibn al-Jazarī

The second tajwīd poem, taken after Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl. It covers the points of articulation and the qualities of the letters — the part of recitation you cannot learn from a page alone.

Planned

Intermediate

Tafsīr al-Jalālayn

al-Maḥallī and al-Suyūṭī

A commentary on the whole Qur’an roughly the length of the Qur’an itself — a word of explanation where a word is needed and nothing more. The first tafsīr a student reads cover to cover.

Planned

Al-Tibyān fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān

Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ṣābūnī

The sciences that surround the text rather than the text itself — revelation, the seven readings, the abrogating and abrogated, the clear and the ambiguous.

Planned

Advanced

Al-Fawz al-Kabīr fī Uṣūl al-Tafsīr

Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī

How to read the Qur’an as a whole rather than verse by verse: its five recurring themes, the shape of an argument across a sūra, and the errors that come from reading it in fragments.

Planned