Quran Recitation and Tajweed
From the Arabic alphabet to fluent recitation. Tajweed introduced step by step, with patient correction.
About the academy
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Sakinah began with a simple question among five teachers in Dakar: what would it take to teach the Quran the way we were taught — in small rooms, with patience, by women who had walked the road before us. The answer became this academy.
How we teach
Small rooms. Slow learning. A teacher who knows your voice.
We are not a platform. We are five teachers and the sisters who sit with us each week. Cohorts stay small on purpose — small enough that your teacher hears you recite every class, and remembers the verses you find hard.
Our teachers were trained in the Senegambian tradition: Quran by the heart, hadith by lineage, adab in the room. They speak Arabic, Wolof, English and French — so when language is the obstacle, language is not the obstacle.
We do not promise overnight fluency. We promise the company of women who learned this way themselves, and the steady work of returning, page by page, to the Book.
What we teach
Four pillars, taught with care.
Each subject is taught by a woman trained in it. Cohorts are kept small enough that the teacher can hear every student recite, every class.
Arabic Language
For absolute beginners and for those who want to understand the Quran in its own words.
Islamic Studies
The 99 Names of Allah, the 40 hadith of Imām al-Nawawī, and a weekly halaqa on the work of the nafs.
Etiquettes for a Student of Knowledge
The adab, woven through every class. How knowledge is received, lived, and passed on.
Languages of instruction
Every teacher speaks four languages.
العربية
The language of the Quran and the classroom.
Wolof
The language of Senegal, spoken with sisters at home.
English
For sisters from anywhere the network reaches.
Français
For West Africa and the wider francophone world.
The teachers
Five Senegambian women.
وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدْنِى عِلْمًۭا
And say: my Lord, increase me in knowledge.
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