Curriculum
The Intensive curriculum has been carefully designed by Shaykh Muhammad bin Yahya al-Ninowy and other ‘ulema over several years and comprises the essentials of traditional Islamic Studies.
Medium of Instruction:
All classes will be conducted in English. This is coupled with an intensive daily Arabic program that runs the course of the year (while simultaneously & increasingly introducing Arabic terminology into other classes/subjects). Students move from reading & writing, to understanding the written Arabic text with and without vowels (Tashkeel).
Arabic Language Intensive:
The Arabic track is highly emphasized during this intensive year. The student will be a few hours of Arabic every morning for the whole year. The objective of the Arabic program is to develop an ability to read and understand classical Arabic. The emphasis is not conversational Arabic, rather the objective is to hand the student the keys to access classically written Arabic text books. The goal is to get the students to understand 70-80 % of such texts by the end of the year insha’Allah, with a little help from the dictionary.