Qur’anic Arabic — Elementary
Understand the Qur'an in its own words.
- Duration
- 16 weeks (to be confirmed)
- Schedule
- 2–3×/week, 40 min (to be confirmed)
- Language
- Urdu, English & Arabic (to be confirmed)
- Duration
- Live online, verse-based from week one (to be confirmed)
- Prerequisite
- Can read Arabic script (to be confirmed)
Taught by Prof. Shaheen Shahzadi
PhD · Founder & Lead Instructor, Firaasah Academia
About this course
Built around one moment — a verse opening up for you before your eye moves to the translation. Rather than teaching full Arabic grammar, this goes straight for what the Qur'an actually uses: a relatively small set of words and patterns covers most of the text, learned in order of frequency and applied to real verses the same day.
إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا عَرَبِيًّا لَّعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ
بے شک ہم نے اسے عربی قرآن بنا کر نازل کیا تاکہ تم سمجھ سکو۔
“We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’an, so that you may understand.”
Is this for you?
- Recites daily but understands fragments
- Wants to follow the Imam in Ramadan and know what's being read
- Tried full classical grammar and found it overwhelming
- Wants to understand the Qur'an directly, not through translation
What you’ll learn
- Recognise high-frequency Qur'anic vocabulary
- Read basic Qur’anic sentence structures without translating word by word
- Identify verb patterns and what each signals
- Understand recurring Qur'anic expressions
- Work through an unfamiliar verse step by step
Curriculum
Introduction to Qur'anic Arabic
High-frequency vocabulary
Basic sentence structures
First verses
applying each pattern to short passages the same day
Assessment & certificate
- Weekly vocabulary checks
- Verse-analysis exercises
- Final unseen-passage comprehension task per level
Firaasah Certificate in Qur'anic Arabic — Elementary
A certificate of completion issued by Firaasah Academia, awarded when you meet the assessment criteria above.
Where it sits
Track B → Practical & Applied Linguistics. Adjacent: Conversational Arabic · 'Ilm as-Sarf and 'Ilm an-Nahw · 'Ulum al-Qur'an → Usul al-Tafsir (Track A).
See the full Arabic Linguistics map →Arabic Linguistics
- Qur’anic ArabicOpen for enrolment