A hawza study room in warm afternoon light: three students seated on a patterned carpet, seen from behind, facing a latticed window with a dome beyond; in the foreground an open book on a wooden reading stand, a glass of tea, a notebook and pen, and a stack of bound volumes.

IlmFlow

The student is at the hawza.

In our first dispatch we said we were sending a student to the hawza — not a person, a system, whose only job is to learn how scholars think. How they read. How they weigh evidence. How they trace a ruling back to its sources.

That is where it is now. In class.

The IlmFlow that used to live at this address was our first attempt, and we learned a great deal from it. The next one is being built properly: on teaching material written and checked by real scholars, real students and real reviewers, in their own languages — English, Farsi and Arabic from the start.

There is nothing to sign up for yet. When there is, it will be here.

Read

The dispatches

What we are building, why, and what we got wrong on the way — written as it happens.

Help

If you teach or study in a hawza

The workshop is invite-only, and there is a form. It is in your language too.

The door is open. The student is studying.