The Pathway

One program, three advancing levels.

The whole path is laid out here so you can see where it leads before you commit to the first step. Only Level One is open now. Everyone enters through the Diploma, taught in English, and Arabic comes in at Level Two.

Apply for Level One

Level One · Now Offered · English

Diploma in ʿAqliyyat

The foundation year. You build the vocabulary of creed, logic, usul and spiritual discipline, in English, which is what makes the rest of the path readable. Arabic helps here but is not required.

Aqida: Risala Ibn Abi Zayd — 7 lectures

Al-Hafida — 4 lectures

Al-Muqaddimat — 12 lectures

Umm al-Barahin — 12 lectures

Kitab al-Tasawwuf (al-Murshid al-Muʿin) — 5 lectures

Khulasat al-Usul — 24 lectures

Al-Sullam al-Munawraq — 12 lectures

Level Two · Future Level · Arabic

Certificate in Kalam & ʿAqliyyat

Here the texts turn to Arabic: later Ashʿari kalam, philosophical vocabulary, and the discipline of formal disputation. Entry requires the Diploma or an equivalent background, plus basic Arabic reading.

Al-Kharida al-Bahiyya, with Shaykh Saeed Fodeh’s Sharh — 40 lectures

Risala fi’l-Hikma — Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Sumarrai — 4 lectures

Risala fi Adab al-Bahth wa’l-Munadhara — 12 lectures

Al-Hikam al-ʿAtaʾiyya, Part 1 — 20 lectures

Qurrat al-ʿAyn: Sharh al-Hattab on al-Waraqat — 20 lectures

Level Three · Future Level · Arabic

Advanced Certificate

The advanced year sits on the Dusuqi commentary: technical kalam, advanced usul, the science of signification, and mature verification. Entry requires the previous certificate and intermediate Arabic reading.

Sharh al-Dusuqi on Umm al-Barahin — 100 lectures

Taqrib al-Wusul fi ʿIlm al-Usul — Ibn Juzay al-Kalbi — 50 lectures

Al-Hikam al-ʿAtaʾiyya, Part 2 — 20 lectures

Risala fi ʿIlm al-Wadʿ — Shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Sumarrai — 6 lectures

Level One Begins September 2026

Begin with the first level.

Only Level One is open at the moment. The later certificates open as each cohort finishes and moves up. Enrollment is by application.