Quranic Grammar (Nahw and Sarf) for New Muslims — Male Teacher
Quranic Grammar (Nahw and Sarf) for new muslims, taught with a male teacher in 45-minute lessons, 1–3 lessons a week. Sentence structure and word morphology, applied to the Quran rather than taught abstractly.
Lesson length and why
Forty-five minutes, with time set aside for questions. Nothing is assumed as already known, including vocabulary other students take for granted.
Where most students start
No Arabic, and often no background knowledge to hang it on. Frequently learning to pray at the same time as learning to read.
What is expected at home
None.
How long it takes
Quranic Grammar (Nahw and Sarf) typically runs 36–78 weeks at 1–3 lessons a week. The range is wide because it moves with revision between lessons more than with anything that happens in them.
What is covered
- 1Nominal and verbal sentences
- 2Cases and their signs
- 3Verb forms I–X
- 4Parsing Quranic ayat
What usually gets in the way
Specific to new muslims — these are the things that actually derail progress for this group.
- Being taught by people who assume prior knowledge
- Terminology used without explanation
- Needing salah before reading fluency
By the end
- Parse an ayah accurately
- Explain why a word carries its ending