al-Salam 'Alaykum,
This thread should be utilized by us, students.
JazakAllah Khayran Sidi Abu Murdiyah.

My suggestions:
To have a course plan for each field. Such as Fiqh, 'Aqidah, Usool, 'arabic. The issue at hand is the dedication of students and how much commitment can the Shuyukh partake in, as they might have jobs or a busy life by teaching in their community as well.

I have been doing some thinking about this topic but without seriously dedicated students and teachers we cannot accomplish much courses.

Also note, many books have a lot of focus on their 'arabic. One such example, is Usool ash-Shaashi I believe.

Anywho, I would like to study: Nur al-Idah [which we are alhamdulillah], Maraqi al-Falah, Mukhtasar al-Quduri, al-Lubab fi Sharh al-Kitab, and maybe Usool ash-Shashi, Nukhbat al-Fikr etc,.

Many books require one to have 30/45 mins daily and not just one day per week or so. I know there are few senior students on Cordoba, so maybe they can offer some advise.

Wassalam,Abu Zaynab.

The problem with daily is that students wont have time to memorize alot. One thing the Ulema have always stressed on is learn in baby steps, 7 ayah then memorize, then practice them, then avfter you practiced them, then learn more thats what needs to be focused on

Yes, plus college timings, jobs, etc,.

For some, studying daily might not work but for some it can? Maybe Cordoba Academy can think of having pre-corded lectures on Tazkiyatun Nafs/akhlaaq etc,.?

They wanted suggestions on what books people want to see what they can teach, so the best thing is to tell them what books you want, that alot of people might want, some books people wont even know so cordoba really wants to find out what we want and it needs to be backed by a few people

al-Salam 'Alaykum,
I see.

My suggestions: Mukhtasar al-Quduri, al-Lubab, 'Aqeedah at-Tahawiyyah, Nukhbat al-Fikr, Bidayat al-Hidayah of Imam al-Ghazali, Manaqib of the scholars of the past, Usool ash-Shashi, and al-akhlaaq wa'l-siyar of Ibn Hazm.

JazakAllah Khayran,
Wassalam.

Abu Zaynab.

Assalamu alaykum

I very much agree with abuzaynab that each field needs a course plan, so that we can develop a core group of students who can progress through it. Otherwise, more advanced classes will always have low numbers in terms of enrollment (and if that happens, we will never get to that level).

I would definitely like to see Usul al-Shashi and perhaps in Hanafi fiqh some books which seem to be less studied than others (in the West, at least) such as al-Wiqayah and Kanz.

In mustalah and hadith, we have a variety right now insha Allah, but I think going further in mustalah is warranted, and I think these courses we have in masa'il in ulum al-hadith are a good idea. I hope some more people express interest in the Risalah Abi Dawud course.

Of course, each course may need to specify the approximate level of Arabic proficiency required.

Imran    

Wa 'alaykum al-Salam,

I think there can be a set structure for advanced students but this would need 'arabic as a pre requisite. 

Anywho, please mention any other books one wants to study. It would be interested to note other opinions.

Wassalam,
Abu Zaynab.

What needs to happen like Imran said is a plan, When you are done studying lets say Matn Abi Shuja, the shafi'i basic primer, then as soon as its done, teach a second level shafi'i text of fiqh so the student can climb a ladder/ Al Mughni is the one i want the most, It is not so much a Hanaabilah book but comparative fiqh. It gives every Madhahibs opinion on every issue and is probably the best book of fiqh out there. Right now we have alot of shafi'i material on cordoba, So maybe  the teachers who are teaching us can give there opinion or help set up  a systamic way of studying. As for the Arabic and knowing it. Arabic is important but it also takes years and years to learn, even the arabs dont even understand arabic, so this is something you need i believe to study in your own time, unless cordoba is going to launch a learn to speak arabic class, reading and writing it is the easy part.

I guess we can partake 'arabic lessons on shariahprogram.ca and Cordoba can focus on other subjects.

ShariahProgram is one of the best for 'arabic out there, online, that is.

I guess we currently have 4 Shuyukh right? Shaykh Daniel, Shaykh Ya'qub, Shaykh Isma'il, and Ustadh Abu Najm?

Can the respective Shuyukh dedicate themselves to particular fields? We can use Shaykh Isma'il for Hanafi Fiqh and Hanafi Usool of Hadith, Shaykh Daniel for Nukhbat al-Fikr etc,.

The Shuyukh best know about their own fields. I am just presenting ideas. 

Should we as students compile a list of dedicated students for Cordoba?

All of responsibility is just on them.

Wassalam.

Assalamu alaykum,

Concerning Arabic, there are so many resources and different methods to learn it, online and otherwise, that I'm not sure Cordoba needs to dedicate a significant amount of effort to teaching it. Also, although to be very proficient, long time exposure helps, developing the reading skills alone to navigate classical texts with the help of a dictionary (and teacher) will definitely not take many years for a diligent student. And with Cordoba classes, I think it is reading skills we are most concerned with.

Salam alaikum wa Rahmatulah, Brothers and sisters, If you pick a course you want then be wiling to sign up for it, As some people picked a certain text on here and everyone asked for it, then No One signed up for it, So I urge the muslims who atke courses here to be active on the forum, I see 20 people in these classes and only 5 people on the forum. Imran and Abu and the others who come on this thread, we can decide amongst us what text we want, isnt it great we have a choice? so please lets not take that for granted, We can  each pick 10 texts that we think other people will like, that people know, not texts no one knows, after we pick 10 we can  desicuss on here what to eliminate until we get down to acouple, but then we have to take the course. I encourage everyone to participate because Cordoba did ask me to ask you what texts you want us to teach you so please take this serious. Pick 10 then put them here, also write who wrote the books, also pick 10 that are not to long liek i wrote al musnad lol, that is to long. So inshallah brothers take this seriously, alos please  more than a few people respond and try to get more people active on the forum, we have the choice to study what we want, jazkhallah khairun, so pick your 10 seriosuly and pick them carefully, then we will all eliminate one one by one

al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran

Kawakib ad-Durriyyah fi Sharh Mutammima al-Ajrumiyya

al-Lubab fi Sharh al-Kitab

al-Jazariyya

Books of Tafaseer like the al-Sawi and al-Jamal a'la al-Jalalain

I agree that Arabic is probably not the best thing to do through Cordoba as there are many other institutions and local imams offering that but we should try to pass sacred knowledge on particularly those books/texts where there are not many people around who have studied them i.e. to make sure certain books or knowledges start to become more wide spread (even if there are only a few of us learning them).

I don't have any suggestions per se but I like Abu Murdiah's suggestion of having an actual program in subjects so start with abu Shuja and move up once completed it.

I would like to study tibyan which is imam nawawis text on adab with the Quran it is not too long and there is a translation by sidi Musa Furbar.

Another text would be al-Kabaair by Imam Dhahabi which is on the Major sins and is a small text as well.

@Abu Zaynab, there are 4 teachers I believe but Abu Najm is not one of them, Mufti Ismail's brother Mufti Ishaaq is also a teacher here I think

I thought Abu Najm was teaching as well? Oh, sorry I forgot Mufti Ishaaq!

Anyway, add to the list: Kitab al-Adhkar of Imam an-Nawawi.

Brothers and sisters do you think it's possible for you to dedicate more than an hour per week? Say atleast 3 times a week for Cordoba?

I know many of us may not be able to dedicate each day for the lessons but atleast 3 days a week? If so, Cordoba can design it's March courses and then we can insha'Allah start.

al-Itqan fi Ulum al-Quran

-shadhilly

Great idea.

1. ar Risala by Imam Ash Shafi'i on Usool al Fiqh

2. Al Mughni by Ibn Qudamah which is the fiqh but explained from All 4 madhahib

3. Since alot of students enroled in Umdat al Akham maybe al kafi or am muqni from Ibn Qudama which is 2nd and 3rd level with mughni being the 4th level

4-Bidayat  al Mujtahid by Ibn Rushd

5. Usool al Sunnah by Imam Ahmad ( is very short maybe 60 pages but wow it can take awhile to cover

6 Naylul Awtar by Ash Shawkani

7. Al Muwatta ( We all want this as i seen on its thread)

8. Ihya uloom id din by Imam Ghazzali

9. Tafsir of Ibn Kathir (obviously long and broken down into many parts

10.  My last choice would be a really long book, like al mughni, or Kitab al Umm so we can also study a master piece along with shorter books, or Siyar alam an nubala, but thats 9 thousand pages so seems unlikely, anyways your thoughts