The Madinah Books were designed to teach Arabic to non-Arabic speakers and prepare them for studies conducted in Arabic.
Reading, vocabulary, grammar, conjugation, writing, morphology, and text analysis.
You follow a structured programme with a dedicated teacher, clear objectives, and assessments before progressing to the next level.
The Madinah Method is used at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. It was designed to prepare non-Arabic-speaking students to follow courses taught in Arabic, particularly in the various Islamic sciences.
The Al-Dirassa programme is organised into four progressive levels. Each level develops reading, comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, conjugation, and written expression.
The advanced levels also introduce dictation, morphology, grammatical analysis, and the study of more developed Arabic and Islamic texts.
The programme is offered on the basis of 96 lesson hours per level, making 384 hours for all four levels. Each level follows a fixed pace of 2 hours per week, with a target of 48 weeks of lessons. Progression remains based on learning outcomes: a student who completes a level before using all 96 hours automatically moves to the next level with the remaining credit.
You progress from reading simple sentences to understanding increasingly developed Arabic texts.
You study everyday vocabulary as well as terms used in Arabic and Islamic texts.
Dialogues, exercises, and writing tasks help you actively use the concepts you have studied.
You learn nominal and verbal structures, conjugation, and the function of words within the sentence.
The advanced levels develop morphology, word patterns, and grammatical analysis.
The programme gives you the linguistic tools needed to approach texts of tafsir, hadith, and fiqh progressively.
Each level corresponds to a specific stage of your progress. Enrol directly if your level has already been validated, or book a free assessment if you are unsure.
Build the essential foundations to read, understand, and produce your first sentences in Arabic.
Strengthen your grammar and begin to understand narrative, religious, and educational texts.
Develop greater independence in comprehension and apply what you have learned to richer Islamic texts.
Master grammatical and morphological analysis to approach advanced Arabic and Islamic texts.
Not sure what your level is yet?
Book a free 30-minute assessment . A teacher will check your skills and guide you to the level that genuinely matches your current ability.
Each level is designed for regular study while protecting the student’s lesson credit when classes need to be rescheduled.
Each level enrolment includes a total credit of 96 hours of one-to-one lessons with a dedicated teacher.
The pace is fixed at 2 hours per week. The target is to complete the 96 hours over 48 weeks of lessons, or about one year.
Payment for the programme is spread over 12 monthly instalments. The commitment covers these 12 payments, even if the actual study period extends beyond 12 months because lessons were postponed.
The 48 weeks are a progression target. If hours remain after this period or after the twelfth payment, you can continue studying until the remaining credit is used.
If your teacher validates the learning objectives before all 96 hours are used, you automatically progress to the next level without placing a new order. Your remaining hours continue to be used within your programme.
If you have used all 96 hours but need more time to complete the level, you can add hours with the Flex plan.
Absences and rescheduling: a lesson cancelled at least 3 hours in advance can be moved to the end of the schedule, up to 3 absences per month. If these conditions are not met, the lesson is deducted from the hour credit.
Temporary pause: you may pause your lessons. Monthly payments continue, but lessons not taken are moved to the end of the schedule and are not lost.
Commitment: the subscription cannot be cancelled before the end of the 12 monthly payments. The learning period may, however, extend beyond 12 months while lesson credit remains available.
Discover how the programme is organised, how learning is monitored, the prerequisites, and each step for joining the programme.
Each level includes a credit of 96 hours of one-to-one lessons. The pace for the plan is fixed at 2 hours per week, with a target of 48 weeks of lessons, or about one year.
Payment is spread over 12 monthly payments, each corresponding to 8 hours. The 48 weeks are a progression target rather than an expiry date: when a lesson is rescheduled according to the programme rules, the remaining credit stays available until it is used.
Your enrolment includes a total credit of 96 hours of one-to-one lessons.
The pace of this plan is fixed to maintain steady progress.
The programme is paid in 12 monthly instalments, each corresponding to 8 hours of lessons.
If the level objectives are validated before all 96 hours are used, you automatically progress to the next level without placing a new order and use your remaining credit.
If hours remain after the 12 monthly payments, they are not lost: you continue your lessons until they are used.
If 96 hours are not enough to complete the level, additional hours can be added through the Flex plan.
Each lesson brings together one student and one teacher. You are not following a group class organised around an average group pace.
Your teacher can immediately identify a difficulty, revisit a rule that was not fully understood, correct your reading, and adapt exercises to your actual needs.
The teacher is fully dedicated to you for the entire lesson.
Progress is adapted to your ability to absorb the material.
Your mistakes are corrected and explained during the lesson.
The work assigned addresses the difficulties you actually encounter.
You benefit from personalised pedagogical support.
Your progress depends solely on your skills and goals.
After each lesson, your teacher completes a learning report so that your progress is concrete and visible.
This report specifies the concepts studied, skills acquired, areas to review, and work to complete before the next lesson.
Lessons, rules, vocabulary, and exercises completed.
Skills you now master.
Topics that require revision or additional practice.
Exercises or revision to complete before the next lesson.
Comments on your involvement and progress.
Your progress in relation to the module objectives.
The Quranic Arabic programme using the Madinah Method is primarily intended for non-Arabic-speaking teenagers and adults who want to follow a structured learning pathway.
To gradually acquire the first grammatical and lexical foundations.
To move from reading words to understanding the meaning of sentences.
To better understand the language of the Quran and Islamic texts.
To acquire the tools needed to study tafsir, hadith, and fiqh.
To resume learning within a coherent, guided programme.
To progress toward more independent reading of Arabic texts.
For children aged 6 to 14, Al-Dirassa offers a separate school programme for learning Arabic and the Quran throughout the year.
To begin Madinah Book 1 directly, you should ideally recognise the Arabic letters and be able to read simple words, even slowly.
If you have not yet mastered reading, your assessment will guide you toward the programme “Learn to Read Arabic”, based on the Nour Al-Bayan book.
This programme helps you build sufficiently strong reading foundations before joining the Madinah Method.
You speak with a teacher during a 30-minute session.
The teacher assesses your reading, vocabulary, and grammar knowledge.
You are placed in the book and module that match your actual level.
You follow one-to-one lessons with clearly defined objectives.
Your progress and areas to review are recorded after each lesson.
An assessment checks your learning. If the level is completed before all 96 hours are used, your remaining credit automatically follows you to the next level.
The Madinah Method is a progressive four-level programme used at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. It was designed to teach Arabic to non-Arabic-speaking students and equip them with the language skills needed to follow courses taught in Arabic, particularly in the various Islamic sciences. It progressively develops vocabulary, grammar, conjugation, reading, comprehension, and writing, followed at the advanced levels by morphology and grammatical analysis. The programme therefore prepares students for higher-level study in Arabic and for more direct engagement with works of tafsir, hadith, fiqh, and other Islamic disciplines.
It provides the linguistic foundations needed to progress in understanding the Quran: vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar, conjugation, and morphology. Further study of Quranic vocabulary, tafsir, and rhetoric is still needed for deeper understanding.
Each level is offered with a credit of 96 hours of lessons, making 384 hours across the four levels. The pace is fixed at 2 hours per week, with a target of 48 weeks of lessons per level. The 48 weeks are not an expiry date: rescheduled hours remain available until the credit is used.
Yes. A beginner can start the first book if they can already read simple Arabic words. Otherwise, they begin with a preparatory reading programme before joining the Madinah Method.
Each one-to-one lesson brings together one student and one teacher. The teacher can therefore immediately adapt the pace, explanations, and exercises to your progress.
Yes. The lesson report includes the content studied, validated skills, identified difficulties, and exercises to complete before the next lesson.
Progression to the next level depends on mastering the learning objectives and validation by the teacher. If you complete a level before using all 96 hours, you automatically move to the next level without placing a new order and use your remaining credit. If you have used all 96 hours without completing the level, you can add time through the Flex plan.
Yes. Al-Dirassa has both male and female teachers. Lessons are gender-segregated: women and girls study with a female teacher, while men and boys study with a male teacher.
The free 30-minute assessment checks your reading ability, vocabulary, and grammar knowledge. You then receive guidance toward the book and module that match your actual level.
Your remaining hours are not lost. The 12 monthly payments cover the 96-hour credit. If lessons have been rescheduled because of holidays, authorised absences, or a temporary pause, you can continue studying after the twelfth payment until your remaining credit is used.
Yes. A temporary pause is possible. Monthly payments continue during the pause, but lessons not taken are moved to the end of the schedule. They remain available and are not lost.
A lesson cancelled at least 3 hours in advance can be moved to the end of the schedule, up to 3 absences per month. If the 3-hour notice or monthly limit is not respected, the lesson is deducted from the hour credit.
No. This plan is built around a fixed pace of 2 lesson hours per week to ensure steady progress and consistent scheduling and subscription management.
Book a free 30-minute assessment with an Al-Dirassa teacher. This session allows us to identify your reading level, grammar foundations, and goals.
You will then receive clear guidance toward the level and module of the Madinah Method that match your situation.
You will not begin with a programme chosen at random. You will join a pathway suited to your level, with a dedicated teacher and monitored progress until your objectives are validated.
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