Dars-e-Nizami Books & Classical Texts

Shaykh Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī

A foundational morphology text introducing Arabic word patterns, conjugation and the principles governing changes within derived forms.

Shaykh ʿAlī Akbar ibn ʿAlī Ḥasanī

A Persian instructional work organising Arabic morphology into progressive chapters on word patterns, derivation and systematic verbal formation.

Ḥāfiẓ Khādim Ḥusayn Riḍwī

A teaching text that develops command of Arabic verb conjugation through the principal morphological forms and their regular patterns.

ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Zanjānī

A concise morphology manual explaining Arabic word formation, inflection and the principal patterns used to derive verbs and nouns.

Muftī ʿInāyat Aḥmad Kākōrawī

A concise morphology manual explaining Arabic word forms, their patterns and the changes that occur through derivation and inflection.

Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Masʿūd

An advanced morphology work examining verbal patterns, weak letters, phonological changes and the principles governing Arabic word formation.

al-Sayyid al-Sharīf ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī

A foundational Persian-language syntax text introducing Arabic sentence structure, inflection and the principal categories governing nouns and verbs.

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī

Al-Jāmī’s commentary on the hundred grammatical operators, explaining how they govern case and mood within Arabic constructions.

ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī

Al-Jurjānī’s concise enumeration of one hundred grammatical operators and their effects on Arabic case endings and verbal mood.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī al-Jayyānī

Ibn Mālik’s thousand-line didactic poem presenting the rules of Arabic syntax and morphology for systematic study and memorisation.

Jamāl al-Dīn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yūsuf Ibn Hishām al-Anṣārī

Ibn Hishām’s advanced grammar manual analysing Arabic sentence structure, inflection and the governing principles of syntactic construction.

Shaykh Sirāj al-Dīn al-Awadhī

A systematic intermediate syntax manual covering inflection, sentence elements and the principal grammatical rules governing nouns, verbs and particles.

Ibn al-Ḥājib

Ibn al-Ḥājib’s influential advanced compendium presenting Arabic syntax in compressed definitions and rules that generated an extensive commentary tradition.

Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī

Al-Jāmī’s major commentary on al-Kāfiyah, closely analysing advanced questions of Arabic grammar, syntax and the reasoning behind grammatical rules.

ʿAbd al-Ghafūr al-Lārī

Al-Lārī’s advanced gloss on Sharḥ Mullā Jāmī, examining difficult grammatical arguments, objections and interpretive choices in the commentary.

Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr

Kaʿb ibn Zuhayr’s celebrated praise poem, studied for classical vocabulary, poetic structure and its place in early Islamic literature.

Abū Muḥammad al-Qāsim ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥarīrī al-Baṣrī

Fifty ornate prose narratives combining rhymed prose, poetry and linguistic ingenuity, studied for advanced Arabic vocabulary and literary expression.

Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Būṣīrī

Al-Būṣīrī’s celebrated devotional ode praising the Prophet ﷺ, studied for its poetry, rhetoric and enduring place in Islamic literary culture.

Compiled by Abū Tammām Ḥabīb ibn Aws al-Ṭāʾī

Abū Tammām’s anthology of early Arabic poetry, arranged thematically and valued for its language, imagery and preservation of premodern verse.

Abū al-Ṭayyib Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Mutanabbī

The collected poetry of al-Mutanabbī, renowned for its linguistic force, rhetorical complexity and treatment of praise, wisdom and selfhood.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Qazwīnī

Al-Qazwīnī’s influential epitome of Arabic rhetoric, systematically treating ʿilm al-maʿānī, bayān and badīʿ through concise definitions and examples.

Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī

An advanced commentary in Balāghah examining rhetorical theory and the analysis of eloquent Arabic expression.

Sadīd al-Dīn al-Kāshgharī

A Ḥanafī legal manual devoted to purification and prayer, presenting their rulings, conditions, recommended practices and common invalidators.

Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Qudūrī

A foundational Ḥanafī legal compendium covering worship, transactions, family law, adjudication and other principal chapters of jurisprudence.

Abū al-Barakāt ʿAbd Allāh al-Nasafī

Al-Nasafī’s concise Ḥanafī law manual covering worship, transactions, family law and judicial matters in densely formulated legal propositions.

Sirāj al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Sajāwandī

A classical Ḥanafī inheritance manual explaining legal heirs, fixed shares, residuaries, exclusion and the calculation of estate divisions.

Aḥmad ibn Abī Saʿīd, known as Mullā Jīwan

A classical work in Hanafi Uṣūl al-Fiqh examining the principles through which legal rulings are understood and derived.

Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Shakūr al-Bihārī

An advanced uṣūl work examining legal proofs, language, analogy and juristic reasoning through both Ḥanafī and wider scholastic perspectives.

Ṣadr al-Sharīʿah al-Maḥbūbī; commentary by Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī

Al-Tawḍīḥ presents Ḥanafī legal theory, while al-Taftāzānī’s al-Talwīḥ comments critically on its linguistic, logical and jurisprudential arguments.

Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī

Shāh Walī Allāh’s treatise identifies the principal themes, interpretive disciplines and recurring difficulties involved in understanding Qurʾanic exegesis.

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

Ibn Ḥajar’s concise primer classifying reports by transmission, acceptance and rejection while defining the principal terms of hadith criticism.

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī

Ibn Ḥajar’s commentary on Nukhbat al-Fikar expands its compressed classifications and explains the reasoning behind hadith-critical terminology.

Walī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb al-Tibrīzī

A major thematic hadith collection arranging reports on belief, worship, conduct and social life, with distinctions between source groupings.

Aḥmad ibn Mūsā al-Khayālī

Al-Khayālī’s gloss on al-Taftāzānī’s Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid al-Nasafiyyah, examining detailed theological arguments and their logical foundations.

Saʿd al-Dīn Masʿūd ibn ʿUmar al-Taftāzānī

Al-Taftāzānī’s influential commentary on al-Nasafī’s creed, presenting Sunni doctrine through concise textual explanation and systematic theological argument.

Mawlānā Kamāl al-Dīn ʿAlī

A Persian commentary on a work known as al-ʿAqāʾid al-Jalāliyyah, addressing propositions of creed through scholastic theological analysis.

A commentary explaining the doctrinal statements attributed to Imām Abū Ḥanīfah in al-Fiqh al-Akbar and their theological implications.

Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī

Al-Taftāzānī’s concise logical text treats conceptions, definitions, propositions and syllogisms before proceeding into its theological portion.

Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī

Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on al-Risālah al-Shamsiyyah, treating conceptions, propositions, syllogisms and the methods of demonstrative reasoning.

al-Sayyid al-Sharīf ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jurjānī

Al-Jurjānī’s advanced gloss on al-Quṭbī, examining technical disputes in postclassical logic and clarifying the commentary’s compressed arguments.

Mullā Muḥammad Ḥasan ibn Ghulām Muṣṭafā Farangī Maḥallī

A Farangī Maḥall commentary on Sullam al-ʿUlūm, developing its discussions of definition, predication, propositions and syllogistic reasoning.

Mullā Ḥamd Allāh Sandīlawī

A commentary on Sullam al-ʿUlūm that expands its concise logical arguments and records the analytical tradition of South Asian scholarship.

Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Shakūr al-Bihārī

Al-Bihārī’s compact logic text presents definition, predication, propositions, syllogisms and demonstration in a form designed for advanced commentary.

Quṭb al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī

Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s focused logical treatise investigating the meaning and division of knowledge into conception and assent.

Qāḍī Muḥammad Mubārak ibn Muḥammad Dāʾim

Qāḍī Mubārak’s advanced commentary on Sullam al-ʿUlūm, closely analysing its formulations and disputed questions in formal logic.

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Dawwānī

Al-Dawwānī’s gloss on the logical portion of al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb, studied for its exact analysis of postclassical logical problems.

Mullā ʿAbd al-Rashīd al-Jawnpūrī

A commentary on al-Jurjānī’s dialectical treatise, explaining the rules of definition, objection, proof and disciplined scholarly disputation.

Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī

Al-Abharī’s concise philosophical manual surveys logic, natural philosophy and metaphysics, becoming a central text in postclassical ḥikmah education.

Qāḍī Mīr Ḥusayn ibn Muʿīn al-Dīn al-Maybadhī

Al-Maybadhī’s commentary on Hidāyat al-Ḥikmah explains its discussions of natural philosophy and metaphysics through detailed post-Avicennan argument.

Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī

Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī’s treatise on natural philosophy, examining bodies, motion, place and related questions within the ḥikmah tradition.

Ṣadr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī (Mullā Ṣadrā)

Mullā Ṣadrā’s commentary on al-Abharī’s Hidāyat al-Ḥikmah, developing its natural philosophy and metaphysics through post-Avicennan analysis.

Maḥmūd ibn Muḥammad al-Fārūqī al-Jawnpūrī

Al-Jawnpūrī’s advanced ḥikmah work examines difficult questions in natural philosophy and metaphysics within the South Asian rational-sciences tradition.

Mīr Muḥammad Zāhid al-Harawī

Mīr Zāhid’s gloss on the general metaphysical discussions of Sharḥ al-Mawāqif, addressing existence, quiddity, unity and causation.

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī

A systematic arithmetic compendium covering whole numbers, fractions, roots, proportions, algebraic procedures and practical methods of calculation.

Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī

Al-Ṭūsī’s Arabic recension of Euclid’s Elements presents definitions, postulates and geometrical demonstrations within the traditional mathematical curriculum.

Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī

A classical work concerned with astronomy and the structure and movement of the celestial spheres.

Imām al-Dīn ibn Luṭf Allāh al-Lāhūrī

Imām al-Dīn al-Lāhūrī’s commentary on Tashrīḥ al-Aflāk, expanding its account of celestial spheres, planetary motions and astronomical models.

Mūsā ibn Muḥammad Qāḍīzādah al-Rūmī

Qāḍīzādah al-Rūmī’s commentary on al-Chaghmīnī’s astronomical epitome, explaining the Earth, celestial spheres and observed motions of the heavens.

Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin al-Qushayrī

Al-Qushayrī’s foundational manual of Sufi doctrine, terminology, spiritual stations, conduct and biographies of early masters of the path.

Imām Rabbānī Shaykh Aḥmad Sirhindī

The collected letters of Imām Rabbānī Aḥmad Sirhindī, covering spiritual development, doctrine and the path of sulūk.