Quranic Linguistics Institute

“PEAK”

The Four Characteristics of a Highly Successful Arabic Linguistics Curriculum

A successful Arabic linguistics curriculum should be pedagogically sound, easy to study and teach, academically authentic and balanced, and Koranic.

Pedagogically Sound

Provides an accurate “big picture” while focusing on important details.
Organizes knowledge into logically connected units by minimizing circular dependencies.
Builds skills gradually and systematically without overwhelming the student.
Empowers the teacher with key resources such as the teacher’s guide, online teacher support, teaching aides to accommodate various learning styles, etc.
Has been tried and tested several times via pilot programs with different & diverse groups of students.

Easy

Easy, but not boring; Challenging, but not impossible.
Easy for the student to study, comprehend, review, practice, and reference after the completion of the course.
Easy for the teacher to teach, explain, review, test, and reference after the completion of the course.

Academically Authentic & Balanced

Strongly rooted in the classical understanding of Arabic.
Neither waters down technical concepts, nor goes to extreme hair splitting details.
Reviewed & endorsed by an authority of the Arabic language from the Arab world.

Koranic

All rules, concepts, and exercises, should be demonstrated with abundant examples from the Quran, which is the first and primary source of Arabic, as well as Prophetic Traditions (Hadith).
Last but not least, it should make Quranic Arabic accessible to the student.

"The [Quranic Arabic] series combines abundant material with clear and easy presentation; it combines excellent ordering [of the chapters] with accuracy in expression; it combines plentiful quotations [from the Quran & Hadeeth] with excellent choice so that the beginners benefit from it, [while] the advanced students cannot do without it” - Dr. Ayman al-Shawwa, Professor of Arabic, University of Damascus, Syria