Three years of modules, traditions, and texts.

A compact early Ḥanafī creed read in full as the spine of the module; sets the lexical and doctrinal grammar of the school.

Foundational summary attributed to Abū Ḥanīfah; treated as a satellite text alongside the Ṭaḥāwiyyah.

Accessible early Māturīdī theological prose; clarifies idiom and key terms for later systematic study.

Selected sections that introduce al-Māturīdī's epistemic and theological moves, in preparation for Year 2.

A concise early Ashʿarī treatise; the foundational anchor for reading the school's argumentative style at its source.

Mature early Ashʿarī kalām; selections that show the maturation of theological proof and method.

A larger compendium consulted for select passages on God, attributes, and revelation.

Brief foundational creedal corpus of early Ḥanbalism, read as the entry point into classical Atharī thought.

Early polemical work showing how early Atharī theologians engaged speculative dissenters.

A community-oriented Hanbalī creedal text; read responsibly, distinguishing pre-modern Atharism from modern Salafī reception.

Early Atharī transmissions on attributes, qadar, and authority, studied through selected passages.

Biographical work preserving doctrinal statements, disputes, and the institutional memory of the school.

A Sufi-Hanbalī Atharī voice; shows that classical Atharism cannot be reduced to one modern slogan.

The classical primer of Islamic logic, conceptions, assertions, definitions, propositions, and syllogisms. Essential for reading later kalām.

A versified logic primer that reinforces Isāghūjī and trains retention of technical vocabulary.

Commentaries on the primers that supply examples, objections, and refinements.

The problem of inquiry: how can one search for what one does not know? A bridge to kalām discussions of knowledge and taqlīd.

A foundational text in epistemology, knowledge as perception, judgment, and account; compared with kalām on naẓar and yaqīn.

Forms, the divided line, the cave; shaped later metaphysics and epistemology in both falsafah and the Latin West.

Classical cosmology, order, intelligibility, and the world-soul, as background to debates over creation and eternity.

The foundation of Aristotelian logic; categories, propositions, syllogism, demonstration.

Being qua being, substance, actuality, potentiality, non-contradiction, and the unmoved mover.

Medieval Latin essence/existence; a useful comparative frame for māhiyyah and wujūd in post-Avicennan metaphysics.

Natural theology, the Five Ways, divine simplicity, attributes, compared with kalām and falsafah.

How to distinguish text from instructor explanation, translation from commentary, and structure an argument's reconstruction.

Short paper structure, citation of primary and secondary sources, avoidance of anachronism in comparative theology.