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Choose your madrasa
Three madrasa paths, four levels each. Pick the one whose books you want to read; you can change it at any time, and what you have passed stays passed.
Your levels
Choose a path above to see its levels.
Indian madrasa
Each level opens once you have passed the one before it in your path.
- Level 1: al-Jurjānī's Ṣughrā and Kubrāالصُّغْرَى · الكُبْرَىal-Ṣughrā and al-Kubrā, the first logic books of the Dars-i Niẓāmī: the whole map of logic twice, the second time in full, lesson by lesson with a short test.
- Level 2: al-MirqātالمِرْقَاةFaḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī's short logic text, read lesson by lesson: the Arabic text with a translation, and a short test.
- Level 3: Tahdhīb al-manṭiqتَهْذِيبُ المَنْطِقAl-Taftāzānī's compact matn, read lesson by lesson: the Arabic text with a translation, and a short test; al-Yazdī's commentary on it follows.
- Level 4: al-QuṭbīالقُطْبِيّQuṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary on the Shamsiyya, the advanced logic book of the Dars-i Niẓāmī.
Ottoman madrasa
Each level opens once you have passed the one before it in your path.
- Level 1: The ĪsāghūjīإِيساغُوجِيAl-Abharī's Īsāghūjī, the matn, term by term in the order of the text: every term with its Arabic, a plain explanation and a short test.
- Level 2: al-Kātī's commentaryشَرْحُ الكاتِيThe Īsāghūjī read again with al-Kātī's classic school commentary, lesson by lesson: the matn, the explanation and a short test.
- Level 3: al-Fanārī's commentaryالفَنارِيShams al-Dīn al-Fanārī's commentary on the Īsāghūjī, with its glosses, as read in the Ottoman madrasas.
- Level 4: al-ShamsiyyaالشَّمْسِيَّةNajm al-Dīn al-Kātibī's Shamsiyya with Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary.
North-African madrasa
Each level opens once you have passed the one before it in your path.
- Level 1: al-Sullam al-munawraqالسُّلَّمُ الْمُنَوْرَقُʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Akhḍarī's poem on logic, learnt by heart in North Africa: its 144 verses lesson by lesson, with a translation, an explanation and a short test.
- Level 2: al-Bājūrī on the Sullamحاشِيَةُ البَاجُورِيّThe Sullam read again with Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī's gloss, as at al-Azhar: our own lessons following him verse by verse, with his words quoted, and a short test.
- Level 3: al-Sanūsī's Mukhtaṣarمُخْتَصَرُ السَّنُوسِيّMuḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī's short handbook of logic, with his own commentary.
- Level 4: al-Khabīṣī on the TahdhībالخَبِيصِيّʿUbayd Allāh al-Khabīṣī's commentary on al-Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb al-manṭiq.