Maktab Ul-IslamIslamic Library

The Study Hall

Free Islamic courses — learn it properly, step by step

Free structured paths — from your first day as a Muslim to classical texts with teachers.

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🕮Nawara Academy

Our sister project: free structured video courses — Aqeedah, Tafsir, Seerah, Arabic, Fiqh — built as a clear curriculum.

Start the curriculum → Free material & planners

Printable planners, trackers and guides to download, free. How To Muslim.

Download → How To Muslim

Practical, warm guides for your first years.

Visit → 🎓AMAU Academy

Structured knowledge with scholars.

Visit → 🏛Deen Institute

Guided Islamic learning, done seriously.

Visit → 🌸Jannah Institute

Islamic education for women, by women.

Visit → 📜Siyar Institute

History and biography, studied deeply.

Visit → 🌍Ummatics

Research on the ummah's collective future.

Visit → 🕯Islamic Guidance

Lectures and reminders, well organised.

Visit → Islamic courses, gathered

How To Muslim’s own directory of courses worth taking.

Browse → 📗The Essentials curriculum

Roots Academy’s five-module programme, taught in person and online. The printed workbooks are sold separately at £7.99.

Going further — the free seminaries

🎓SeekersGuidance

Free structured courses across the sciences, with named faculty.

Browse → 📗Zad Academy

A free multi-year Arabic-medium programme with an English track.

Visit → 📘AMAU Academy

Structured self-paced study across aqidah, fiqh, seerah and Arabic.

Browse → 🏛Miftaah bachelors curriculum

A full multi-year curriculum, published so you can see the order of texts.

View → 📚Usul Academy

Course directory across the classical sciences.

These are not ranked, and the order of texts is not neutral. Which book you study first in aqidah or fiqh is itself madhhab- and creed-coded, so a single “canonical ladder” would quietly pick a side. Each of these institutions publishes its own curriculum and its own faculty — read whose it is before you commit years to it, and see Who’s Who for how to judge that.

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