Grammar and speech, developed in parallel. The Complete Arabic Pathway combines Arabic Foundations and Applied Arabic into a single enrolment — understanding the language and using it, side by side.
Understanding the language and using it — developed together, not in sequence.
The Complete Arabic Pathway combines Arabic Foundations (Lisān al-Qurʾān, Volume 1) and Applied Arabic (Al-ʿArabiyyah Bayna Yadayk, Book 1, Part A) into one enrolment. Rather than completing one track before starting the other, students attend both sets of classes each week — grammar and comprehension building in parallel with speaking and conversation.
This is the program for students who want comprehensive development: the grammatical grounding to understand Arabic texts, and the spoken fluency to use the language directly.
No prior Arabic knowledge is required — both tracks begin at Level 1.
Students able to attend 7 hours of live instruction weekly across both tracks.
Those seeking both grammatical understanding and conversational ability.
Enrolling in both tracks together saves $35 a month over enrolling separately.
Both textbooks are studied in full, on their own class schedule — the pathway combines the two curricula rather than merging them into one.
Arabic script, grammar, sentence structure and Qur'anic comprehension. Full curriculum detailed on the Arabic Foundations page.
Conversation, listening and practical vocabulary. Full curriculum detailed on the Applied Arabic page.
Grammar learned in Foundations reinforces the sentences practised in Applied Arabic each week, so progress in one track supports the other.
By the end of Level 1 across both tracks, students will be able to —
With correct pronunciation and comprehension of Qur'anic phrases.
Speak and understand spoken Arabic in common situations.
Recognise the grammatical structures behind the sentences they speak.
With a genuinely rounded foundation in Arabic to build on.
Foundations and Applied Arabic run on their own schedules, both live online each week.
Grammar from Foundations classes surfaces again in Applied Arabic conversation, and vice versa.
Homework from both tracks is marked individually, with feedback before each week's classes.
Arabic Instructor — Naḥw, Ṣarf & Spoken Arabic
Mohammad Ilyas Nadeem brings together traditional Islamic scholarship and hands-on classroom experience, teaching Arabic grammar, morphology and spoken fluency to students at every level.
Holds ijāzāt in Ḥadīth and the associated Islamic sciences from numerous scholars across the Muslim world, several among the most senior remaining musnid scholars of our time — placing him within short, high chains of narration (ʿuluww al-isnād) back to the major collections of Ḥadīth.
Scholars he holds ijāzah from include:
Across both tracks, classes are taught by instructors with strong grounding in Arabic grammar, the Islamic sciences, and conversational teaching methods — so each half of the pathway is taught with the same depth and care.
The best of you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it.
— Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī
Saves $35/month over enrolling in both tracks separately ($304). No enrolment fee, no contract.
