Bayyinah's academic curriculum is designed around 4 major tracks within Arabic study; Beginners, Qur'anic, Standard & Classical Literature.  Each track identifies a particular area of concentration.  This allows students to concentrate on specific skill sets and develop a firm grounding in them.  The first two tracks; Beginners and Qur'anic are taught in the English language.  In Standard Arabic, students are slowly given the tools to communicate in Arabic and the use of English in class is minimal.  Classical literature is taught purely in Arabic though a section of the track is dedicated to English translation.  Each track comprises a total of 120 hours of course work.  The following breakdown elaborates the subject matter and resources utilized in each track.


    


  Areas of Concentration:    Basic reading & Tajweed.
  Track Goals: Letter recognition, pronunciation, fluency in reading conjugated Arabic text, essentials of Tajweed exclusively applied to Qur'an recitation.
  Course Materials: Internal (Available only to Bayyinah Students)
  Number of Units: 4
  Unit 1: ARA 101
Beginners Arabic (40 hrs)		 Letter Recognition & Reading Intensive
  Unit 2:ARA 102
Tajweed Essentials  (30 hrs)		  



    



 

Areas of Concentration: 

Grammar, Vocabulary, Idioms, Unique Linguistic Issues Pertaining Specifically to the Qur'an
  Track Goals:
  1. A thorough, systematic and practical understanding of Classical Arabic Grammar
  2. Significant Qur'anic Vocabulary (70-80%)
  3. An intermediate level appreciation of linguistic intricacies and responses to modern literary criticisms against the Qur'an
  4. A practical understanding of how grammar influences translation.
  Course Materials:  Internal (available only to Bayyinah students)
  Number of Units: 10
  Unit 1: ARA-201
Fundamentals of Classical Arabic: 30 Hours

This unit is taught over a 10 consecutive evening intensive.  This intensives covers an introduction to:

  1. Four Properties of the Ism: عدد,  قسم , جنس,  إعراب
  2. 5 Fragments involving the Ism  إضافة, نعت و منعوت, حروف جارة, جروف ناصبة, أسماء الإشارة
  3. Pronouns & Ism Based Sentences
  4. Variations of the Present Tense: مضارع منصوب ومجزوم
  5. Passive Voice in Past & Present Tense
  6. Commanding & Forbidding

You can download more information about this course in pdf format here.
  Units 2-10 (90 hours/10 hours per unit)):

These units are taught via Webex in the form of on-demand video sessions.  Each unit comprises a total of 10 hours (90 hours in all for units 2-10).  Within any given unit, students will go through an hour of lecture which ends with a quiz assignment. Upon completing the assignment on their own time, students view the next video which goes over the quiz and elaborates the more difficult questions therein.  Students pay in advance for access to an entire unit for 6 weeks after which the access expires. In addition to reviewing and solidifying concepts from Unit 1, the following main topics are covered in units 2 to 10.

  1. The Past & Present Tenses in More Complex Settings

  2. Weak Conjugations حروف علة

  3. جملة اسمية vs. جملة فعلية and numerous other rhetorical tools of emphasis

  4. Trilateral and Quadrilateral Families of Words ثلاثي مجرد وثلاثي مزيد فيه

  5. The Essential Sarf of the Fi'l & the Ism

  6. Grammatical Followers التوابع

  7. The 15 Causes of Nasb & Their Implications on Meaning

  8. Near Synonyms in the Qur'an

  9. Verbal Idioms in the Qur'an

  10. Transition as a Rhetorical Device
 

    


  Areas of Concentration:  Standard Arabic in Conversation, Reading, Writing and Listening.
  Track Goals:
  1. To communicate effectively in Modern Standard Arabic at the intermediate level
  2. To read Arabic at an advanced level
  3. To write in Arabic at an intermediate level
  4. To develop Arabic listening comprehension at an advanced level
  Course Materials

Arabic Between Your Hands  العربية بين يديك  
(3 Volume Set)
  Number of Units: 10
  Unit 1: ARA-301
Arabic in Conversation		 Book 1 of Arabic Between Your Hands.
  Unit 2-10:
Standard Arabic		 Books 2 & 3 of Arabic Between Your Hands.  These units cover walkthroughs of each lesson, assignments, reviews and take-home exams.


    


  Areas of Concentration Excerpt readings from various classical Arabic Islamic works pertaining to a variety of Islamic sciences.
Track Goals:
  1. To appreciate the depth and diversity of Arabic Islamic literature.
  2. To gain fluency in reading classical texts without diacritical marks
  3. To comply with precise standards of Arabic grammar in reading such texts.
  Course Materials

Internal (Available only to Bayyinah students)
  Number of Units: 4
  Unit 1: ARA-401
Intro to Classical Literature		 Readings of 12 two-page excerpts taken from various famous classical works.
  Unit 2-4:
Further Readings