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Years 3-5 - ʿĀlimiyyah

Knowledge and Practical

Training
Spiritual custodianship and community leadership
require two types of contributors: scholars and
community activists. Our goal at Qalam is to
provide knowledge and training for both. Qalam
has made a serious commitment to not
compromise either of these opportunities for the
other.

The Year 2 program is a strategic exit point that

prepares the community leader and activist to
serve in a meaningful capacity.

Students who continue their studies in Years 3-5

and complete the ʿĀlimiyyah Program are trained
and mentored to:

• Serve as the full-time Imam or religious leader of a community.

• Develop and teach beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels of Islamic studies and curricula.
 • Contribute to the international compendium of Islamic scholarly research and literature.

• Address Islamic legal and social issues unique to the American experience.

• Engage with the interfaith community clearly and effectively.

• Establish productive and beneficial institutions of spiritual growth, education, and mentorship.

What Will Students Learn?

Year 3
The Year 3 curriculum is designed to advance the student’s grasp and understanding
of the fundamental Islamic sciences. Students will complete more detailed studies of
Fiqh, ʿAqīdah, Ḥadīth, and Tafsīr.

Tafsīr Ḥadīth

• Course Description: Students will focus on
the primary texts under each categorization
of Tafsīr (Tafsīr al-Maʾthūr, Tafsīr al-Dirāyah,
and Tafsīr al-Ishārah). Students will read
through select passages of each Tafsīr text
which highlight the focus of that work and
the category of Tafsīr they fall into. Passages
are selected due to the practical, spiritual,
and oft-repeated nature of the āyāt.
• Course Description: Students will complete a
comprehensive study of Ḥadīth with a focus
on the words and wisdom of the Prophet ‫ﷺ‬.
• Text: Mishkāt al-Maṣābih
• Instructor: Mufti Hussain Kamani
Fiqh
• Course Description: Students will explore the
reasoning behind the Ḥanafī legal rulings
 • Texts: Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm (Ibn Kathīr), related to worship and transactions.
al-Jāmiʿ al-Aḥkām al-Qurʾān (Al-Qurṭubī), al- • Text: Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah
Kashshāf (Al-Zamakhsharī), al-Taḥrīr wa al-
• Instructor: Mufti Muntasir Zaman
Tanwīr (Ibn ʿĀshūr), and al-Tafsīr al-Kabīr (Al-
Rāzī)

• Instructor: Shaykh AbdulNasir Jangda

ʿAqīdah

• Course Description: Students will complete an advanced study of Islamic theology.

• Text: Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid

• Instructor: Dr. Masood Ahmad

Year 4
The Year 4 curriculum is designed to further the student’s expertise in the areas of
Fiqh, Comparative Fiqh, Hadith transmission and narrators, Hadith commentaries, as
well as research methodology.

Dawrat al-Ḥadīth ʿIlm al-Rijāl

• Course Description: Students will uphold the • Course Description: Students will learn how
time-honored tradition of studying and to navigate reference books and research
surveying the canonical books of Ḥadīth and the status of Ḥadīth narrators and chains of
their well-known shurūh (commentaries). narration as they read through the

• Texts: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Jāmiʿ collections of Ḥadīth.

al-Tirmidhī, Sunan Abī Dāwūd, Sunan al- • Texts: Tuḥfat al-Ashrāf, Tahdhīb al-Kamāl fī
Nasaʾī, Sunan Ibn Mājah, al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (al- Asmāʾ al-Rijāl, Al-Mughnī fī Ḍabṭ Asmāʾ al-
Laythī and al-Shaybānī). Students will also go
 through select portions of Sharh Maʿānī al- Rijāl, Siyar ʾAʿlām al-Nubalā, Itḥāf al-
Āthār. Maharah, and others.

• Instructors: Shaykh AbdulNasir Jangda, Mufti • Instructor: Mufti Muntasir Zaman

Hussain Kamani, Shaykh Mikaeel Smith and
Fiqh al-Mīrāth
Mufti Muntasir Zaman
• Course Description: Students will complete a
Al-Fiqh al-Muqāran
detailed study of Inheritance Law and
• Course Description: Students will continue to develop proficiency by working through case
develop their understanding of Fiqh by studies.
analyzing rulings in light of the 4 Primary • Texts: Tashīl Ḥisāb al-Farāʾiḍ, Talkhīṣ Fiqh al-
Schools of Thought. Farāʾiḍ, and al-Sirājī fī al-Mīrāth.
• Text: Bidāyat al-Mujtahid • Instructor: Shaykh AbdulNasir Jangda
• Instructor: Shaykh AbdulNasir Jangda

Year 5
The Year 5 curriculum is designed to assess the student’s ability to read, understand,
present, and explain advanced Islamic texts. Students lead each class session and
are evaluated by the instructor.

Tafsīr Uṣūl al-Fiqh

• Text: Tafsīr al-Bayḍāwī • Text: Muntakhab al-Ḥusāmī

• Instructor: Shaykh AbdulNasir Jangda • Instructor: Shaykh AbdulNasir Jangda

Ḥadīth Fiqh Questions

• Text: Fatḥ al-Bārī • Course Description: Students are expected

to research and provide written answers to
 • Instructor: Mufti Muntasir Zaman
Advanced Grammar
• Text: Alfiyyah Ibn Mālik
• Instructor: Shaykh Mikaeel Smith
Fiqh
• Texts: Al-Aṣl, al-Mabsūṭ, al-Baḥr al-Rāʾiq,
100 Fiqh questions, in order to develop their
research and reasoning abilities. The
questions cover topics discussed in classical
books of Fiqh, as well as contemporary Fiqh
issues. Students will have their work
assessed and checked by the instructor.

• Text: Al-Hidāyah fī Sharḥ Bidāyat al-Mubtadī Radd al-Muḥtār, al-Fatāwā al-Hindīyyah,

Badāʾiʿ al-Ṣanāʾiʿ, Tabyīn al-Ḥaqāʾiq, al-
• Instructor: Mufti Muntasir Zaman
Muḥīṭ al-Burhānī, Fatḥ al-Qadīr, and others.

• Instructor: Mufti Muntasir Zaman