Library
The editions our lessons cite, recorded so that any claim on this site can be traced back to a printed page. This is a bibliography, not a directory — the teaching on Alyph Academy is our own.
شرح مختصر جدا على متن الآجرومية
Aḥmad Zaynī Daḥlān
دار المشاريع — Dār al-Mashārīʿ
Aḥmad Zaynī Daḥlān’s short commentary on the standard beginner’s text in Arabic grammar — the book a student traditionally memorises before anything else. 161 pages, with OCR text.
No rights or licence statement is displayed. The commentary is pre-modern; this is a modern publisher’s printing. Linked, not hosted.
الأربعون النووية
Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676 AH)
ed. Muḥyī al-Dīn Mistū · Muʾassasat al-Risāla, Beirut · 1402 AH
The most commonly cited scholarly printing of the Forty. Fully vocalised, with the meanings of rare vocabulary glossed.
The matn itself is public domain. This particular edition is an edited printing; we cite it and do not reproduce it. Nobody at Alyph has yet held a copy — the citation is from a bibliographic source, and the transliteration of the editor’s name still needs checking against the title page.
الأربعون النووية بتحقيق الشربيني
Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676 AH)
A scan of an edited printing of the Forty, 128 pages, available as PDF, EPUB and searchable text. The most convenient free copy of the text this course is built on.
The matn is centuries old and out of copyright. This particular file carries no rights or licence statement on its archive.org page, and it is a scan of a modern edited printing whose editorial work may carry its own rights. We link to it on archive.org; we do not re-host it.
trans. Ezzeddin Ibrahim & Denys Johnson-Davies
The Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge · 1997
The standard English translation, and the one most other sites are quietly displaying. We do not reproduce it — our translations are our own.
In copyright. This is the translation displayed by several popular hadith websites, which is worth knowing if you are comparing renderings. We consulted it to check our own work against and reproduce none of it.
متن الأربعون النووية
Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī (d. 676 AH)
Dār al-Minhāj, Jeddah / Beirut · 1445 AH / 2024 CE
A calligraphic presentation printing of the bare text, in the hand of Muḥammad Jābir al-Sayyid Abū al-ʿAlā. 64 pages.
Listed here so that it is not mistaken for a critical edition: it credits no muḥaqqiq and carries no apparatus. It is a beautiful copy of the text, not a scholarly one, and should not be cited as establishing a reading.
صحيح البخاري
Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī (d. 256 AH)
A complete scanned set in Arabic, roughly 1.2 GB across twenty files, with OCR. Slow to load and worth it — this is the collection our lessons cite most often.
No rights or licence statement is displayed on the item page. The work itself is public domain; this scan is of a modern printing. Linked, not hosted.
Tanzil Project
The Tanzil Project’s verified Qur’an text as downloadable files, mirrored on archive.org. Version 1.1, Uthmani script.
This mirror is tagged Attribution-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0), which matches Tanzil’s own no-modification condition. Verbatim redistribution with attribution and a link to tanzil.net is permitted; alteration is not.
Every lesson, article and video published here is written and taught by Alyph Academy under a named author. We cite other people’s scholarship; we do not host it, and we do not fill this site with links to it.
