Who is the Jazariyyah for?
Students crossing from following the rules to knowing the science.
Whoever studies tajweed seriously arrives, sooner or later, at Ibn al-Jazarī. His Muqaddimah has ordered the science for six centuries: one hundred and nine lines carrying the makhārij, the ṣifāt and the rules of recitation in a form built for memory. This cohort studies the poem line by line, live on Zoom across 20 Sunday sessions, under Qari Ilyaas Badr, whose own chain of transmission reaches Ibn al-Jazarī himself.
If you want to understand the rules behind your recitation, this course is for you.
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The course is delivered live online, in English, and is open to men and women.
Note: The course carries two tracks. Study Track students earn the Certificate of Completion. Students who memorise the full matn and recite it in weekly tasmīʿ may be considered for ijāzah in the text, granted solely at the teacher's discretion, with a sanad reaching Imām Ibn al-Jazarī.
Students crossing from following the rules to knowing the science.
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You read the Qurʾān and want to read it properly. The course starts at line one, in English, and assumes nothing but sincerity and a muṣḥaf.
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You carry the Qurʾān, or you are gathering it, but the science behind its sound was not taught to you properly..
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Those who correct others must cite more than instinct. The matn is the reference every sound correction stands on, with a chain behind it.
The book, chapter by chapter
01
Ibn al-Jazarī, the imam of the science, and what he obliges every reciter to know in the opening eight lines.
02
The seventeen points of articulation, from the jawf to the khayshūm, mapped on the chart and applied in recitation.
03
The attributes that distinguish the letters, opposing and singular, and the errors that vanish once each letter is profiled.
04
The chapter that names the science a duty, the famous line on reciting without it, and laḥn jalī against laḥn khafī.
05
Ibn al-Jazarī's precision warnings: keeping the lowered letters thin, clarity of the hamzah, and like sounds side by side.
06
The conduct of rāʾ and the lām of the name of Allah, lightened and heavied, with the disputed cases and their reasoning.
07
The pair most confused in the ummah's recitation, separated for good.
08
Mīm sākinah, the doubled nūn and mīm, then iẓhār, idghām, iqlāb and ikhfāʾ as the poem orders them.
09
The lengthenings: their causes, ranks and counts, and how the poem compresses the entire madd system into four lines.
10
Where to stop and where to begin: the chapter that changes how a page is read aloud, counted as half of recitation.
11
The cut and joined words of the ʿUthmānī script and the thirteen open tāʾāt.
12
Starting on the connecting hamzah, rawm and ishmām at word endings, and the poem's own closing lines.
The matn is taught as mutūn were always taught: read, explained, memorised and recited back, with the teacher's own chain in the text standing behind the explanation. Nothing is skipped; every one of the 109 lines is covered.
Every chapter lands in the mouth, not the notebook. Lines are trained with live Qurʾānic recitation each week, and tasmīʿ follows every session, because the Jazariyyah was written to be revised, not filed.
Live Online Cohort
£250 for the full cohort of 20 weeks, beginning Sunday 13 September 2026 at 20:00 London time. Enrolment closes when the cohort fills. Open to men and women.
Live group class, Sunday evenings
20 sessions · 13 Sep 2026 to 10 Jan 2027
Terms. Payment is in full at enrolment and secures your seat for the full course. Every session is recorded and shared to the private cohort playlist within 24 hours.
One hundred and nine lines felt impossible in week one. By the last session I was reciting them with meaning, not just memory.
The pace was demanding in the best way. By the doubled sessions at the end I could feel how far the group had come together.
I'd tried to memorise the poem alone twice and given up. In a structured cohort with weekly recitation, I finished it.
Sunday evenings became the anchor of my week. A live class, a clear text, and a teacher who checked I could recite it back before moving on.
Studying directly with Shaykh Ilyaas is not something I expected to have access to from my own home. It raised the level of everything.
The weekly listening sessions is what made it stick. Knowing I had to recite back what I'd memorised kept me consistent for the full course.
From our students
Mentorship runs in terms of twelve sessions, renewing automatically so your teacher and time slot stay yours. Cohort courses run to fixed dates published on each course page. How far you travel within that time depends on your starting level and your consistency; your roadmap makes the path explicit.
We do not offer trials, and deliberately so. Enrolment is a minimum commitment of one term of twelve lessons, because that is the shortest span in which real change in recitation takes root. Your first session is a working session, and if you would like a professional assessment before committing, the Consultation exists exactly for that.
For most courses, no; your first session with your teacher includes a full diagnostic, so the work begins immediately. The advanced pathways, Ijāzah, Qirāʾāt, and Maqāmāt, open with a paid Recitation Consultation so your readiness is confirmed before study begins. Each course page tells you if one is needed.
You receive an official welcome and a short onboarding form so we can learn your level, goals, and availability. We confirm your weekly time, match you to your dedicated Ijāzah certified teacher, and your roadmap is ready before your first lesson.
Yes. Choose your course or mentorship tier and enrol directly on its page; your place is secured the moment you enrol. Where a course is full you join the waiting list in order of priority, or your payment is returned in full.