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Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Essentials 2025 Dear Students, As-Salamu 'alaykum and Marhaba!  Welcome to our   Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Essentials .  The first live session will be Saturday, February 1st .  You can find the class materials below.  As this is the course page, check back here for updates.  We will be adding free resources to help you in your Arabic reading journey.Please email us at  contact@grammica.institute  for any inquiries.   Live Review Timings : Saturday 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM EST and occasionally Wednesday 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM EST .  The link to the meeting will be posted here shortly before the first live session. Office Hours (Getting Live Help 1-on-1):   Do you want to practice your verb conjugations or analyze a sentence?  Can't understand a concept covered in class?  Come with your questions to office hours. Saturdays: Click here to book ​ Class Materials):  Grammica Institute Essentials  Textbook (PDF) -updated Nov 25 Here is the schedule for the Live Reviews (Spring '25). CIAG Essentials  Syllabus 2025 (PDF) -updated Jan  Online Hans Wehr (ejtaal.net) Live Class Link : 

Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Advanced 2025   Dear Students, As-Salamu 'alaykum and Marhaba!  Welcome to our course "Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Advanced ".  This is the course page so please check here for any updates.  You will find the class materials below.  We will be adding free resources to help you in your Arabic reading journey. The first live session is January 27th 2025 (Monday ) .  Please email us at contact@grammica.institute for any inquiries.   Class Materials:  Mutammima al-Ajrumiyya (مُتَمِّمة الآجرومية) Imam Ghazali's  Ihya 'ulum al-din Vol 1: Introduction (dar al-minhaj edition) Imam Ghazali's  Ihya 'ulum al-din ( kitab al-ghadab )دار المناج Ghazali's Ihya in Arabic (ghazali.org) Online Hans Wehr (ejtaal.net) Matn al-Ajrumiyya (to compare with the Mutammima) Timings : Classes are Monday and  Thursday, 9:00 AM - 9:50 AM EST and conducted via Zoom. Class Link : Homework Volume 1 p9 Imam Ghazali says knowledge has been reduced by the legalists to 3 things: summarize these in a couple of words. Volume 5 p598 Begin reading at "amma al-ifrat" as for excessive anger; summarize habitual causes paragraph; read about physiological changes and impact of anger (p600),  Bayan fadilat kadhm al-ghaydh:  Choose 3 athats from  Pages 633-638 , vocalize and translate. P 646-48 al-qawl fi ma’na al-hiqd;  What does hiqd lead to? P649 فضيلة العفو; Read 1st page P660 فضيلة الرفق; Read 1st page P667-68 القول في ذم الحسد; Read 1st page P677-78 بيان حقيقة الحسد وحكمه

Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Advanced   Dear Students, As-Salamu 'alaykum and Marhaba!  Welcome to our course "Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Advanced ".  This is the course page so please check here for any updates.  You will find the class materials below.  We will be adding free resources to help you in your Arabic reading journey. The first live session is September 2nd 2024 (Monday ) .  Please email us at contact@grammica.institute for any inquiries.   Class Materials:  Mutammima al-Ajrumiyya (مُتَمِّمة الآجرومية) Imam Ghazali's  Ihya 'ulum al-din Vol 1: Introduction (dar al-minhaj edition) Imam Ghazali's  Ihya 'ulum al-din ( kitab al-ghadab )دار المناج Ghazali's Ihya in Arabic (ghazali.org) Online Hans Wehr (ejtaal.net) Matn al-Ajrumiyya (to compare with the Mutammima) Timings : Classes are Monday,  Thursday, and Saturday 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM EST and conducted via Zoom. Class Link : Homework p998 Begin reading at "amma al-ifrat" as for excessive anger; summarize habitual causes paragraph; read about physiological changes and impact of anger (p600),  Bayan fadilat kadhm al-ghaydh:  Choose 3 athats from Pages 633-638 , vocalize and translate. P 646-48 al-qawl fi ma’na al-hiqd;  What does hiqd lead to? P649 فضيلة العفو; Read 1st page P660 فضيلة الرفق; Read 1st page P667-68 القول في ذم الحسد; Read 1st page P677-78 بيان حقيقة الحسد وحكمه

Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Intermediate   Dear Students, As-Salamu 'alaykum and Marhaba!  Welcome to our course "Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Intermediate ".  The first live session is Monday  September 2nd, 2024 .  You can find the class materials below.  As this is the course page, check back here for updates.  We will be adding free resources to help you in your Arabic reading journey.Please email us at contact@grammica.institute for any inquiries.   Class Materials:  Certificate of Ijaza in Arabic Grammar — Intermediate (Textbook PDF) -updated Dec 16 The text of Matn al-Ajrumiyya. Online Hans Wehr (ejtaal.net) Mukhtarat min adab al-'arab في بني سعد  With Bani Sa'd Timings : Classes are Monday, Thursday, and  Saturday.  Monday and Thursday is 9 AM - 9:50 AM EST and Saturday is  with our Teaching Assitant. Classes are conducted via Zoom. Class Link : Homework 6. Choose 2 muda'af verbs on form 4 and 8 Choose 2 mithal verbs on form 1 7 SUN Vowel and translate one of the hikam Choose 2 ajwaf verbs in form 1 and give sarf formula 11 SUN Give the sarf formula for  ajwaf verbs from forms 4 and 10, and a naqis verb from form 1 14 WED Choose 1 naqis verb on  باب رَمَى and 1 on َباب رَضِي and provide the sarf formula and/or the conjugations of past, present, and command tense. 18 SUN Practice conjugations of naqis verbs in higher forms.  Students may email an audio clip of themselves reading out the conjugations. Identify irregular sarf on p40. 21 THU Email Audio clip: Choosing 1 lafif mafruq verb and 1 lafif maqrun verb, send audio of you reading all 14 conjugations in all tenses. 25 SUN Vocalize Prophetic lineage from قال أبو  Write your own lineage to your grandfather (vocalize fully) 28 WED P51 (Nun al-tawkid), P53 Practice 3 MAR p52 C Sentences with nun al-tawkid Submit audio conjugations here:  Sarf Conjugations – Grammica Institute 17 Sun Ism al-fai'l: Read pp 84-5; Practice p86 #1-6 نعت سببي; ism al-maf'ul: identify the نائب فاعل or تعلق for every passive participle. 27 Wed: Discussed the 'amal of the rest of the mushtaqqat.  HW: Vocalize and translate 1st page of في بني سعد APR 20: 'Amal masdar p72,73 Identify every masdar that has ta'alluq or takes a مفعول به منصوب. APR 24: Reading Hadith Halima; 'amal masdar, 'amal mudaf MAY 1: Birgivi: 'amal ism fi'l 5: Birgivi: عمل اسم منسوب 8: Birgivi: التعلق (Ta'alluq) 15: Birgivi: Mansubat  22: Ka'b 1; Birgivi Mansubat - Majrurat 

This is a course outlining the Arabic grammar one needs to know to understand the Quran, hadith, and classical scholarly texts. While this is a systematic study of ancient Arabic, the material presented in this course can also be practically applied to everyday spoken fusha (standard Arabic). This course is largely based on the classic Arabic primer matn al-Ajurrumiyya.

Mastering Arabic is a lifelong journey. All of one’s time and effort spent on this language will make the goal of that journey one step closer. One must make studying Arabic a project, whether 30 minutes a day or 30 minutes a week.

Make a plan to learn Arabic and develop a connection to the Muslim scholarly tradition.

This course is based on Imam Birgivi’s “100 Grammatical Impactors” which the student reads in class.

Apart from the reading, topics included in this book, discussed in detail in class, are conjugating irregular verbs, grammatical impactors, the different types of sentences, connecting partial sentences (ta’alluq), the various meanings of particles, how nouns grammatically act like verbs, and other assorted, but important, topics.

Mastery of these concepts means eventual mastery of reading classical Arabic.