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Islamic Courses present as part of Lord Mizan ul Mulk's 2050 agenda:
ONE WEEK INTENSIVE: DARS‑I‑NIẒĀMĪ MANẒŪM DĀKHIL PROGRAMME
Taught by Dr Tajul Islam [Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, Leeds University]
Dates: Monday 3rd August - Sunday 9th August 2026 (each day)
Time: 9am -5pm (each day)
Venue: Ebrahim College, 399–401 High Street, Stratford, London, E15 4QZ
[In-person and online hybrid]
Ijazah provided by instructor and Certificate of attendance provided by Ebrahim College upon completion.
The Dars‑i‑Niẓāmī Manẓūm initiative revives the classical method of didactic‑poem learning that once dominated seminaries across the Muslim world. For centuries, the alfiyyah - a thousand‑line didactic poem in each discipline - formed the backbone of traditional scholarship. The programme is a complete “mini‑ālimiyyah” delivered usually in one year but this intensive intends to cover the core fundamental texts within a week. It covers the full spectrum of foundational sciences - Arabic, fiqh, uṣūl, kalām, tajwīd, and ḥadīth—through concise, carefully crafted didactic poems. Across 21 didactic texts [19 classical disciplines], the course forms its own alfiyyah, totalling 1362 lines. This structure provides the ideal on‑ramp for adult learners, professionals, and beginners who need clarity, coherence, and a manageable learning pathway.
The initiative aims to make the classical tradition accessible to non‑Arab students and heritage speakers of Arabic. By restoring the oral and aural culture of Islamic learning through the qaṣīdah and nashīd tradition, it reconnects students with the pedagogical heart of the pre‑modern madrasa. Crucially, it enables lifelong revision: a student can return to 100 lines far more easily than to 40 pages of prose.
The system is simple and time‑tested: the student memorises, the teacher explains, the student revises. The text becomes a lifelong companion - something one can revisit independently, like a familiar melody. Rhythm and rhyme make this possible in a way that bulky prose never can. For generations, knowledge was transmitted in precisely this manner.
Entire course:
Poetry = 50 lines; Grammar = 60 lines; Morphology = 113 lines; Stylistics = 100 lines
Philosophy = 8 lines; Debate = 57 lines; Theology = 68 lines; Legal Maxims = 43 lines
Applied Jurisprudence = 151 lines; Comparative Jurisprudence = 101 lines ;Principles of Jurisprudence = 100 lines
Tajwid = 61 lines; Qur’anic science = 158 lines; Exegesis = 49 lines; Terminology = 34 lines
40 Hadith = 53 lines; Biography = 100 lines; Spirituality = 72 lines
We will be reading selective lines from the various texts below from various subjects:
Day 1 — Introductory & Literary Reasoning
Poetry - Al-Bayḍāwī’s Buḥūr al-Shiʿr’, Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī’s Mafātīḥ al-Buḥūr and Yūsuf al-Nābahānī’s Taqrīb al-Gharīb fī Madā’iḥ al-Ḥabīb
Philosophy - Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Sujāʿī’s Al-Maqūlāt al-ʿAshar
Debate - Ṭāshā Kubrā Zādah’s Naẓm al-Risālah fī Adab al-Baḥth wa al-Munāẓarah
Day 2 — Language Tools I
Grammar - Aḥmad b. Sibawayh al-Ḥanbali’s Al-Ḍābiṭ al-Kulliyyah fī Naẓm al-ʿAwāmil al-Jurjāniyyah
Morphology - ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Ṭahṭāwi’s Naẓm al-Maqṣūd fī al-Ṣarf
Day 3 — Language Tools II and Qur’anic Foundations
Stylistics - Abū al-Walīd Ibn al-Ṣhiḥnah’s Al-Mi’ah fī al-Bayān
Qur’anic Sciences - ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Zamzamī’s Naẓm al-Zamzamī
Day 4 — Recitation, Tafsir & Spirituality
Qur’anic Phonetics - Sulaymān al-Jamzūrī’s Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl wa al-Ghilmān fī Tajwīd al-Qur’ān
Exegesis - Ibrāhīm b. Khalīl al-Jaʿbarī’s Taqrīb al-Ma’mūl fī Tartīb al-Nuzūl, and Abū Mundhir al-Ulfī’s Taqrīb al-Maqṣūd fī Tartīb al-Wurūd,
Spirituality - Muḥammad Khalīl al-Khaṭīb’s Naẓm al-Nuqāyah
Day 5 — Narrative and Hadith Foundations
Prophetic Biography - Ibn al-Shiḥnah’s Al-Arjūzah al-Mī’īyyah fī Dhikr Aḥwāl Khayr al-Bariyyah
Hadith Terminology - ʿUmar b. Fattūḥ al-Bayqūnī’s Naẓm al-Bayqūniyah
Hadith Texts - Munīr al-Būsafī’s Iʿānat al-Akhyār fī Ḥifẓ Qawl al-Muṣṭafā al-Mukhtār
Day 6 — Theories of Jurisprudence
Object-orientated Jurisprudence - Aḥmad b. Makkī al-Ḥamawī’s ʿUqūd al-Ḥisān fi Qawāʿid Madhhab al-Nuʿmān
Principles of Jurisprudence - Ibn al-Shiḥnah’s Al-Mi’ah fī al-Uṣūl
Day 7 – Branches of Jurisprudence
Applied Jurisprudence - ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nāblusī’s Kifāyat al-Ghulām fī Arkān al-Islām
Comparative Jurisprudence - Ibn al-Shiḥnah’s Al-Mi’ah fī al-Fiqh (Mā Ajmaʿ ʿAlayhi al-A’immah al-Arbʿah)
By the end of this course, you will have immersed yourself in the culture of oral transmission, memorisation, and recitation - the very culture that shaped the Islamic scholarly tradition.
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About the course presenter: *Dr Tajul Islam [Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, Leeds University] is a theologian having studied in traditional madrasahs/ulama over 25 years across the Muslim world including (Mauritania, Egypt and Pakistan) and licences (ijazahs) from numerous channels (including dars-i-nizami – mahadir shinquit, al-azhar, sham, sudan and others). He completed his BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies in Leeds University and PhD in Islamic Theology from Exeter University. He has been a faculty member of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Leeds University since 2009, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Punjab in Lahore, Pakistan. His interests combines both critical methodologies and traditional Islamic textual hermeneutics in a fusion which centres Islamic sensibilities and Muslim subjectivity. Research outputs include a monograph titled 'On Muslim Unity (Scholastic Traditional Minimalism: A Critical Analysis of Intra-Sunni Sectarian Polemics)', a well cited co-authored article on Hanafi fiqh, and British Muslims and cultured meat and also an article on Qur’anic phonetics. Publications include: 'A Dictionary of Arabic Idioms and Expressions. Co-authored with El Mustapha Lahlali. Forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press, 2023' and a forthcoming book on 'On Muslim Unity' with I.B. Tauris. He has contributed to many international peer-reviewed journal articles and conferences, symposia and public talks. Currently, as Co-Director of the Iqbal Centre for the Study of Contemporary Islam, Leeds University, he focusses on supervising Phd students and teaching and researching on Islamic Theology (kalam, sectarianism, sunni, shiah, sufi, salafi), Arabic Poetry (‘urud and translation) Qur'anic Studies/ (exegesis, linguistics, translation), Hadith Studies, Islamic Law (branches, principles, maqasid, fatawa), Islamic Philosophy, Islamism (political science, ethno-nationalism), Islamophobia/Antisemitism/Racism, Genocide Studies (Srebrencia, Holocaust), Biblical Studies (Ahl al-Kitab, Judaeo-Islamic heritage), Madrasa studies (matn historiography).
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AUDIENCE: Open to ALL and any one interested in text based learning classical Islamic scholarship.
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All welcome, limited spaces, pre-registration required!
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* Please note, time and resources have been set aside to ensure the programme runs in a smooth and professional manner for the maximum benefit of participants and thus unless the programme has been postponed or cancelled, there are NO REFUNDS as part of the terms and condition policy.
*Lunch and refreshments can be purchased at cafe's or restaurant's near to the venue and NOT included in ticket price.
*The course is BOTH in person ONSITE in London and for those who can not attend in person can purchase the LIVE ONLINE STREAMING ticket to watch it from their device and those coming in person, should decide not to attend person on the day or half the day, you will still recieve a link to the live online streaming, irrespective but are encouraged to attend in person if you have registered for that ticket, as this helps with allows room allocation, respectively for fellow participants
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ebrahim College, 401 High Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 434.07 to GBP 542.41
