Insight Qur’an through Seerah
Read the Qur’an alongside the life it was revealed into.
- Level
- Open to all levels (to be confirmed)
- Duration
- One year, three terms (to be confirmed)
- Schedule
- 2×/week, 45 min (to be confirmed)
- Language
- Urdu & English (to be confirmed)
- Prerequisite
- No prerequisite (to be confirmed)
- Duration
- Entry at the start of any term (to be confirmed)

Taught by Prof. Shaheen Shahzadi
PhD · Founder & Lead Instructor, Firaasah Academia

About this course
The Qur'an came down over 23 years into a life — persecution, migration, grief, victory, ordinary community trouble. Read alongside that life, distant verses become immediate. This course follows both together across a full year — Arabia, then Makkah, then Madinah — closing on Fiqh al-Seerah, the pattern drawn from the whole life.
لَقَدْ كَانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ
یقیناً تمہارے لیے رسول اللہ ﷺ کی زندگی میں بہترین نمونہ ہے۔
“In the Messenger of Allah you have a most beautiful example.”
Is this for you?
- Read Seerah and Qur'an separately and sensed they belong together
- Some verses feel abstract, and wants to know what they answered
- Wants depth over survey, and is willing to give it a year
- Wants a course that's moving, not just informative
What you’ll learn
- Place major revelations within the life's timeline
- Connect verses to the events that occasioned them
- Explain how Makkan and Madinan revelation differ in purpose and tone
- Trace how a community was built in sequence
- Draw the pattern out of the biography rather than isolated lessons
- Read the Qur’an with historical context as a habit
Curriculum
Term 1
Before and Beneath: Pre-Islamic Arabia, Early Life & Lineage, and the run-up to the First Revelation
Term 2
Makkah and the Migration: the Makkan Period (its longest phase, across three modules) and the Hijrah
Term 3
Madinah and the Pattern: the Madinan Period (across three modules), closing on Fiqh al-Seerah
Assessment & certificate
- Reflection responses linking verse to context
- A timeline-mapping exercise per term
- A final assessment on context and application
Firaasah Certificate in Insight Qur’an through Seerah on completing all three terms (term completion certificates issued along the way)
A certificate of completion issued by Firaasah Academia, awarded when you meet the assessment criteria above.
Where it sits
Track D → branches 1–5 and Fiqh al-Seerah. Also Track A → 'Ulum al-Qur'an: Asbab al-Nuzul, Al-Makki wal-Madani.
See the full Seerah Studies map →Seerah Studies
- Pre-Islamic ArabiaCovered within this course
- Early Life & LineageCovered within this course
- The Makkan PeriodCovered within this course
- The HijrahCovered within this course
- The Madinan PeriodCovered within this course
- Fiqh al-SeerahCovered within this course
