DARS-E-NIZĀMI (Contemporary)
There are three main iterations of the Dars-e-Nizāmi – the awwal which was Mulla Nizamuddin’s original syllabus which had a fewer number of books, the more expanded thāni which was formed about one hundred years after the original with the addition of more books, and a contemporary form derived from the thāni. It is worth noting that what one often finds in most South Asian madrasahs today is a diminished version of all these.
There are two approaches to the beginning stages of the Dars-e-Nizāmi – either starting off with Sarf and Nahw together, and then introducing Mantiq within the first month; or, starting off with some basic Sarf first (such as Sarf Mīr), then starting with Nahw (such as Nahw Mīr) with Mantiq introduced later. In any case, in the first year, only Sarf, Nahw, Mantiq and Fiqh are taught, with a few advanced books in each of these sciences being taught in later years.
It is important to note that Fārsi was a second language for most pre-colonial South Asian Muslims who studied the Dars-e-Nizāmi. As this is not the case now, in many madrasas the first year is spent just learning Fārsi qāidā and vocabulary, alongside Arabic vocabulary.
‘Ilm al-Sarf:
1. Mīzān
2. Munsha’ib
3. Panj ganj
4. Sarf Mīr
5. ‘Ilm al-Sīghah
6. Fusūl-e-Akbari
7. Dastūr al-Mubtadi
8. Zarrādi
9. Zanjāni
10. Sarf al-Bahāī
11. Marāh al-Arwāh
‘Ilm al-Nahw:
1. Nahw Mīr
2. Sharh Miah al-‘Āmil
3. Hidāyah al-Nahw
4. al-Kāfiyah
5. Sharh Mulla Jāmī – only until mabniyāth in most places
6. Tashīl al-Kāfiyah
7. Hāshiyah Abdul Ghafur on Sharh Jāmī (only the Muqaddimah)
8. Takmilah Mulla Abdul Hakim Siyālkoti on Hāshiyah Abdul Ghafur
9. Hāshiyah Ghulām Mahmūd Piplanwi entitled al-Tuhfah al-Sulaymāni on Hāshiyah Siyālkoti (aforementioned)
The Dars-e-Nizami awwal did not contain any commentaries on Mulla Jāmi. These were introduced in the Dars-e-Nizami thāni after about a century. However, many contemporary madrasahs do not teach these commentaries anymore.
‘Ilm al-Mantiq:
1. Sughra
2. Awsat
3. Kubra
4. Isāghoji (only matn)
5. Qāla aqūl hashiyah Hussām al-Kati on Isāghoji
6. Mīr isāghoji (taught only in some institutes)
7. Mirqāt
8. Sharh Tahdhīb al-Mantiq, with hāshiyah Mulla Yazdi
9. Qutbi
10. Mīr Qutbi (9 and 10 are taught alongside each other)
11. Mulla Hasan on Sullam al-‘Ulūm
a. Hāshiyah Mulla Jalāl on Sharh Tahdhīb al-Mantiq (only discussion on Tasawwur and Tasdīq, i.e. about 30 pages)
b. Hāshiyah Mīr Zāhid on Mulla Jalāl (only discussion on Tasawwur and Tasdīq, i.e. about 100 pages)
c. Hāshiyah Abdul Hayy al-Lakhnawi entitled Al-Ta’līq al-‘Ajīb on Mulla Jalāl
d. Hāshiyah Abdul Halim al-Lakhnawi on Mulla Jalāl
12. Hāshiyah Zāhidiyyah on Risālah Qutbiyyah
a. Hāshiyah Bahr al-‘Ulūm Mulla ‘Ali
b. Hāshiyah Ghulām Yahya Bihāri
c. Three Hawāshi by Abdul Hayy al-Lakhnawi entitled Hidāyah, Misbāh al-Dujā and Nūr al-Huda (the latter two of which were written in response to Abdul Haqq Khairabādi)
d. Hāshiyah Dhuhūr Allah al-Lakhnawi
13. Qādi Mubārak on Sullam al-‘Ulūm with Hāshiyah by unknown author (only Tasawwurāth)
14. Hamdulllah on Sullam al-‘Ulūm with Hāshiyah by Ilāhibaksh Khairabādi (only Tasdīqāth)
15. Matāli’ al-Anwār by Shamsuddin Urmawi (this is only taught in a few institutes as the majority end at book 14)
a. Hāshiyah Qutubuddīn al-Rāzi
b. Hāshiyah Mīr Jurjani on al-Rāzi
‘Ilm al-Falsafah wa al-Hikmah:
1. Matn Hidāyah al-Hikmah
2. Hāshiyah Qadi Mīr Maybdhi on Hidāyah al-Hikmah
3. Hāshiyah Sadruddīn al-Shirāzī on Hidāyah al-Hikmah
4. Shams al-Bāzighah by Mulla Mahmūd Jawnpūrī
5. al-Hadiyah al-Sa‘īdiyah by Allāmah Fadhl-e-Haq Khairabādi
‘Ilm al-Balāghah:
1. Mukhtasar al-Ma’āni
2. Mutawwal
‘Ilm al-Fiqh:
1. Nūr al-Īdhāh
2. Khulāsah al-Kaydāni
3. Munya al-Musallī
4. al-Qudūrī
5. Kanz al-Daqāiq
6. Sharh al-Wiqāyah
7. al-Hidāyah
8. al-Sirāji on Mīrāth (this is studied either after al-Qudūrī at the end of fiqh studies)
‘Ilm Usūl al-Fiqh:
1. Usūl al-Shāshi
a. Hāshiyah Fusūl al-Hawāshī
b. Hāshiyah Ma’ādin al-Usūl
2. Nūr al-Anwār
3. Hussāmī
4. Musallam al-Thubūth (some teach this book at the end of Usūl al-Fiqh studies)
5. Tawdhīh al-Tanqīh
6. Hāshiyah Tashrīh on al-Talwīh
‘Ilm al-Kalām wa al-Aqāid:
1. Sharh al-Aqāid al-Nasafiyyah
2. Hāshiyah Khayāli on al-Aqāid al-Nasafiyyah
3. Sharh al-Aqāid al-Jalāliyyah (this book was more popular 50-100 hundred years ago, but is now not commonly taught)
4. Hāshiyah Mīr Zāhid on al-Umūr al-‘Āmah section of Sharh al-Mawāqif
a. Hāshiyah Abdul Haqq Khairabādi on Mīr Zāhid (this is the most popular super-commentary, but it is rarely taught nowadays)
b. Hāshiyah Amāniyyah on Mīr Zāhid
c. Hāshiyah Bahr al-‘Ulūm on Mīr Zāhid (though this is still in manuscript form)
‘Ilm al-Hay’ah wa al-Handasah wa al-Hisāb:
(The teaching of these books has greatly reduced as they have been deemed as ‘irrelevant’ by some)
1. Khulāsah al-Hisāb
2. Tashrīh al-Aflāk
3. Tahrīr Iqlīdis with Hāshiyah Abdul Hayy al-Lakhnawi
4. Sharh Chaghmīnī with Hāshiyah Abdul Hayy al-Lakhnawi
‘Ilm Usūl al-Tafsīr:
(This is contemporary science which was traditionally not taught as a science in the Dars-e-Nizāmi)
1. Fawz al-Kabīr fi al-Usūl by Shah Wali Allah Dehlawi
‘Ilm Usūl al-Hadīth:
1. Nuzhah al-Nazhar ‘alā Nukhbah al-Fikr
‘Ilm al-Munāzharah:
1. Hāshiyah Al-Rashīdiyah by Abdul Rashid Jawnpūrī on al-Sharīfiyyah
‘Ilm Adab al-Arabī:
1. al-Mu’allaqāth al-Sab’a
2. Nafhah al-‘Arab
3. Dīwān al-Mutanabbi
4. Dīwān al-Hamāsah
5. Maqālāt al-Harīri
‘Ilm al-Tafsīr:
1. Jalālayn
2. Anwār al-Tanzīl wa Asrār al-Ta’wīl (Baydhāwi)
3. Tafsīr al-Nasafi
‘Ilm al-Hadīth:
1. Mishkāh al-Masābih
2. al-Bukhāri
3. al-Muslim
4. al-Tirmidhi
5. Abu Dāūd
6. al-Nasā’ī
7. Ibn Mājah
DARS-E-NIZĀMI (Awwal)
‘Ilm al-Sarf:
1. Mīzān
2. Munsha’ib
3. Sarf Mīr
4. Panj ganj
5. Zubda
6. Fusūl-e-Akbari
7. Shafiyah
‘Ilm al-Nahw:
1. Nahw Mīr
2. Sharh Miah al-‘Āmil
3. Hidayah al-Nahw
4. al-Kāfiyah
5. Sharh Jāmī
‘Ilm al-Mantiq:
1. Sughra
2. Kubra
3. Īsāghoji
4. Tahdhīb al-Mantiq
5. Sharh Tahdhīb al-Mantiq
6. Qutbi
7. Sullam al-‘Ulūm
8. Mīr Qutbi
‘Ilm al-Hikmah:
1. Maybdhi
2. Sadra
3. Shams al-Bāzighah
‘Ilm al-Riyādhah:
1. Khulasah al-Hisāb
2. Risālah al-Qushjiyah
3. Tahrīr Iqlīdis Maqalah al-Ūla
4. Tashrīh al-Aflāk
5. Sharh Chaghmīnī Bab al-Awwal
‘Ilm al-Balāghah:
1. Mukhtasar al-Ma’āni
2. Mutawwal
‘Ilm al-Fiqh:
1. Hidayah awwalīn
2. Sharh al-Wiqāyah
3. Hidayah ākharīn
‘Ilm Usul al-Fiqh:
1. Nūr al-Anwār
2. Musallam al-Thubūth
3. Tawdhīh Talwīh
‘Ilm al-Kalām:
1. Sharh al-Aqāid al-Nasafi
2. Sharh al-Aqāid al-Jalāli
3. Sharh al-Mawāqif
4. Mīr Zāhid
‘Ilm al-Tafseer:
1. Jalālayn
2. Baydhāwi
‘Ilm al-Hadīth:
1. Mishkāh al-Masābih
2.
DARS-E-NIZĀMI (Thānī)
‘Ilm al-Sarf:
1. Mīzān
2. Munsha’ib
3. Panj ganj
4. Sarf Mīr
5. Fusūl-e-Akbari
6. Dastūr al-Mubtadi
7. Zarrādi
8. Zanjāni
9. Sarf al-Bahāī
10. Marāh al-Arwāh
‘Ilm al-Nahw:
1. Nahw Mīr
2. Nazm Miah al-‘Āmil
3. Sharh Miah al-‘Āmil
4. Hidayah al-Nahw
5. al-Kāfiyah
6. Sharh Jāmī
7. Tashīl al-Kāfiyah
8. Hāshiyah Sharh Jāmī
‘Ilm al-Mantiq:
1. Sughra
2. Kubra
3. Mirqāt
4. Tahdhīb al-Mantiq
5. Sharh Tahdhīb al-Mantiq
6. Sullam al-‘Ulūm
7. Sharh Sullam al-‘Ulūm Mulla Hasan
8. Sharh Sullam al-‘Ulūm Hamdulllah
9. Sharh Sullam al-‘Ulūm Qādi Mubārak
10. Risālah Mir Zāhid
11. Qutbi
12. Mīr Qutbi
‘Ilm al-Falsafah wa al-Hikmah:
1. Maybdhi
2. Sadra
3. Shams al-Bāzighah
4. Hadiyah Sa‘īdiyah
‘Ilm al-Hayiah wa al-Handasah:
1. Tasrīh
2. Sharh Chaghmīnī
3. Tahrīr Iqlīdis
4. Tashrīh al-Aflāk
5. Khulasah al-Hisāb
‘Ilm al-Balāghah:
1. Talkhīs al-Miftāh
2. Mukhtasar al-Ma’āni
3. Mutawwal
‘Ilm al-Fiqh:
1. Khulāsah al-Kaydāni
2. Munya al-Musallī
3. Nūr al-Īdhāh
4. Qudūri
5. Kanz al-Daqāiq
6. Sharh al-Wiqāyah
7. Hidayah
‘Ilm Usul al-Fiqh:
1. Usūl al-Shāshi
2. Nūr al-Anwār
3. Hussāmī
4. Tawdhīh Tanqīh
5. Talwīh
6. Musallam al-Thubūth
‘Ilm al-Kalām wa al-Aqāid:
1. Sharh al-Mawāqif
2. Sharh al-Aqāid al-Jalāli
3. Sharh al-Aqāid al-Nasafi
4. Khayāli
‘Ilm al-Tafsīr:
1. Anwār al-Tanzīl wa Asrār al-Ta’wīl (Baydhāwi)
2. Jalālayn
3. Kashshāf
‘Ilm Usūl al-Tafsīr:
1. Fawz al-Kabīr fi al-Usūl
2. Tafsīr Shah Wali Allah Dehlawi
‘Ilm al-Hadīth:
1. Mishkāh al-Masābih
2. Bukhāri
3. Muslim
4. Tirmidhi
5. Abu Dāūd
6. Nasā’ī
7. Ibn Mājah
8. Shamāil Tirmidhi
‘Ilm Usūl al-Hadīth:
1. Nukhbah al-Fikr
‘Ilm al-Munāzharah:
1. Al-Rashīdiyah
‘Ilm Adab al-Arabī:
1. Mufīd al-Tālibīn
2. Nafhah al-Yaman
3. Nafhah al-‘Arab (?)
4. Dīwān al-Mutanabbi
5. Dīwān al-Hamāsah
6. Maqālāt al-Harīri
7. Sab’a Mu’allaqah
‘Ilm al-‘Urūd:
1. ‘Urūd al-Fattāh