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Fawakih is an educational non profit that focuses on teachingClassical Arabic to students throughout the United States for the purpose of accessing theQuran,Hadith and classical texts of the Islamic Sciences.
Fawakih (Arabic: فواكه) derives its name from the Arabic word for fruits, representing the desired result of tasting the "fruits" of understanding the Classical Arabic Islamic texts.
Fawakih was founded in 2007 by Saif Omar[1] as a501(c)(3) organization under the legal entity Polaris Foundation Inc. Fawakih held its first Quranic Arabic summer intensive in Fishers, IN subsequently held programs in future years in Washington, DC and Boston, MA. After 2010, all summer programs were offered in Washington, DC. Starting in the fall of 2012, Fawakih began to offer part-time, weekly, Quranic Arabic classes inHerndon, VA,Ann Arbor, MI, andBoston, MA. By 2015, Fawakih offered classes throughout the East Coast and in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Fawakih has expanded its offerings to include part-time courses online, a winter classical language learning intensive, and a number of seminars that focus on theexegesis of the Quran. Currently, Fawakih's headquarters is based in Northern Virginia and is led by Executive Director Ismail ibn Ali.[2]
Fawakih has developed a 6-level curriculum[3] that focus on three main components: grammar, text analysis and skills. Students are expected to
Fawakih has developed a series ofQuran Analysis textbooks which focus on helping students parse verses of the Quran and read extracts of various Quranexegetes. The series includes textbooks forSurat al-Kahf,Surat Maryam, andSurat Yasin.