Screen-free learning for Muslim families
Arkan gives parents short, hands-on lessons that weave the stories and values of Islamic civilization into math, science, language and life skills — and shows you exactly where your child is and what comes next.
Free to join. Early families help shape the program.
Build a pinhole viewer like the 11th-century scholar who studied how we see, then watch the world appear upside down.
You’ll need
Check for understanding
Ask: “Why is the picture upside down?” If they can trace the light with their finger, mark it mastered.
The problem
Most “educational” options are another app or tablet — the very thing you’re trying to cut back on. Learning shouldn’t mean more hours staring at a device.
Mainstream curricula skip the scholars, scientists and stories of Islamic civilization. Islamic studies, meanwhile, often sit apart from math, science and language — instead of running through them.
Worksheets and report cards don’t tell you which ideas your child has truly mastered, which are shaky, or what they’re ready to learn next.
How Arkan works
You get a few minutes of guidance; your child gets paper, pencils, real objects and you.
Start with things already in your home: paper, a pencil, a ball, a favorite stuffed animal.
Quick, playful check-ins you run in conversation show which skills are mastered and which need another look.
Each lesson gives you a simple script, the materials, a story from our heritage and a way to check understanding.
Every activity becomes a piece of a larger physical project — a 3D scrapbook that traces their growth and keeps the memories.
Built on learning science
Arkan is built on a skill taxonomy that breaks the primary years into small, teachable ideas, each with clear evidence of mastery and links to the ideas that must come first. Inspired by mastery-based schools like Alpha School, your child moves on when they’re ready — not when the calendar says so.
1,600+
micro-topics across the primary years
3,300+
prerequisite links between them
Aligned to Common Core, NGSS and the UK National Curriculum, so you always know how your child compares to the standards.
How a skill unlocks
Every topic has a plain-language check — so “mastered” means your child showed it, not that a page was completed.
Islamic civilizational values, woven through
Children meet the people, places and ideas of Islamic civilization inside the lessons they’re already learning.
Mathematics
Solve for balance with al-Khwārizmī
Use a homemade scale to discover the idea behind al-jabr — the word that gave us “algebra.”
Science
Ask how we see with Ibn al-Haytham
Test ideas the way he did — by experiment — and learn that good questions come before answers.
Life skills
Build a place of learning like Fāṭima al-Fihrī
Plan, budget and build together, inspired by the founder of al-Qarawiyyīn in Fez.
What your child learns
What parents get
Short guides with a script, materials and a story — print them or read them in a minute.
See what your child has mastered, what’s next and why — across every subject.
Conversational checks you can run at the kitchen table — no tests, no screens for your child.
The physical project your family builds over the year — progress you can hold.
Join the waitlist for early access, founding-family pricing and a say in what we build next.