Islamic Studies

Imam al-Nawawi's concise primer on hadith sciences — all 25 types of hadith mapped as an interactive mind map with Arabic text, translations, and scholarly notes.

The same content as the radial map above, rendered as a collapsible, zoomable mind-map tree (markmap). A layout experiment shown alongside the radial version.

The full mustalah map (all 65 types) layered with Shaykh Muhammad 'Awwamah's practical ta'liqat — the muhaddith / faqih interface, acting on weak hadith, mursal as proof, riwaya bi'l-ma'na — for the student of ifta and Hanafi fiqh.

Al-Laknawi's masterwork on narrator criticism (jarh wa ta'dil) — conditions, limits, and detailed rules mapped interactively.

Nur al-Din Itr's manual of hadith criticism, mapped as a collapsible, zoomable tree. Every node pairs an English explanation with the author's own verbatim Arabic wording (al-nass).

How the hadith scholars actually worked — the student's and the teacher's code, the eight ways a text passes from shaykh to student, the craft of the manuscript, and the standards behind each of the Five Books. Every section of the book mapped, each with a plain-English summary and its printed page number.

How to find any hadith in its sources — al-Baqa'i's teaching manual (Manahij al-Muhaddithin, vol. 1) as an orientation map: the five search methods, the book-genres each one opens, a route-chooser, and the rules for phrasing the attribution. Built to be kept open while studying the book.

The sub-science of how a Hanafi mufti operates — tabaqat, tarjih signals, qawa'id, and the line between fatwa and qada. Foundation: Sharh `Uqud Rasm al-Mufti by Ibn `Abidin.

The same collapsible, zoomable mind-map layout as above, with one difference: this version also keeps the later hashiya commentary of al-Mazahiri and Abu Lubaba layered alongside Ibn `Abidin's own text.

A growing kitab-by-bab map of the Hanafi madhhab, anchored to the classical corpus — zahir al-riwayah, ta'lil-expansion (Mabsut, Bada'i, Fath al-Qadir), and tarjih + ifta (Shami, Hindiyya, Bazzaziyya, Khaniyya). Built bab by bab during Usul al-Ifta study.

Ibn Nujaym's classic on Hanafi legal maxims. The first fann mapped as a collapsible mind map: the six grand maxims (al-qawa'id al-kubra) and the nineteen wider universal qawa'id, with verbatim Arabic and translation.

The whole of al-Sarakhsi's Usul as a collapsible debate map: every bab from amr and nahy to qiyas, tarjih and ahliyya. Each issue gives Sarakhsi's position with verbatim Arabic and translation, who held what, proofs, objections and replies, and the furu' he builds on it. Includes debate hot-spots, an index of intra-Hanafi disagreements, and a glossary.

The simpler companion to the debate map, for a student with a basic grounding in the Islamic sciences who has not yet studied usul. Each topic opens with the question, gives Sarakhsi's answer in plain words, one example from the book, who disagrees and why, and a link to the same topic in the full debate map. Starts with how to read it, the core terms, the book in one page and ten big ideas.

Imam al-Tahawi's reconciliation of conflicting hadith (mukhtalaf al-athar). All 27 contested masa'il of Kitab al-Tahara as fixed A→B→C→D cards: the opposing view, al-Tahawi's position, his reconciling move in his own words, then the ruling, each with verbatim Arabic from the matn.

Video lessons on Quranic recitation rules (tajweed) and foundational reading (qaidah) on the Essential Ilm YouTube channel.