How to progress in Arabic reading and comprehension
My dear students, It has been brought to my attention, through my dear student, Mr Ali Rasul, that…
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The Method of Teaching Arabic Language and Literature
Our esteemed colleague, Mawlānā Ṣafwān Aḥmad Ḥalīmī Qāsimī, has asked what is the correct method for teaching Arabic…
The Origin of “Kāhil”
Professor Mushīr Ṣāḥib, of Lucknow University (may God preserve him), wrote the following query: al-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmat…
We Do Not Know Laylā
The story of Laylā and Majnūn has, since ancient times, been recognised in Eastern literature as a celebrated…
Principles of Discussion
The fundamental principle of research and scholarly discourse is to understand correctly the relationship between language and meaning.…
Knights of Knowledge and Literature
In an age in which libraries overflow with a multitude of publications, the book Fursān al-ʿIlm wa-l-Adab (Knights…
The Language of Fatwā
> ʿAjīb shahr — A strange town holds within it words waiting to be said. In the field…
Cold is cold, and heat is heat
The history of passion is that, in every age of reason, we ourselves have fashioned the scaffold of…
Nurturing Writing Instinct and Intellectual Awareness in the Students of Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ
The Arabic language, ever since its light first shone upon the land of India, was never merely an…
Some Verses of Akhtal
The poetry of Akhtal stands as a monument to that golden treasury of the Arabic language in which…