Maktab QuranA class where you can simply focus on the Quran
Many women who want to improve their recitation or finally learn Tajweed properly put it off for years — not from lack of desire, but because the options never felt right. The local masjid class is taught by a male teacher, or runs exactly when the children need you. The idea of reciting — hesitantly, with mistakes — in front of strangers feels exposing. And most "ladies' classes" nearby are for children, not for a grown woman starting again.
Online classes with a female teacher remove every one of those barriers at once. You recite to one patient teacher — a woman — from your own home, at an hour you chose. No commute, no audience, no compromise on modesty, and no one to feel shy in front of.
How do lessons for sisters work at Maktab Quran?
You choose your own teacher from real profiles on our Teachers page — each profile states whether the teacher is female, the languages she teaches in, and what she specialises in. Then you take a free trial lesson to make sure it feels right before you pay anything.
The lesson itself happens on a real-time synchronized Quran page: you and your teacher look at the same Mushaf, and when she corrects a word, it highlights on your screen instantly. This matters especially for sisters who prefer not to use a camera — video is completely optional. With audio only, your teacher still follows your recitation word by word and corrects every slip, because she sees exactly where you are on the page. You can read the full walkthrough on How It Works.
What can women study?
- Reading from zero — if you never learned, or learned as a child and lost it, you start gently with Noorani Qaida. Many of our adult students begin exactly here. There is no embarrassment in it; there is only reward. Learning as an adult →
- Tajweed — recite the way you have always wanted to. Rules are taught one at a time and corrected live in your own recitation, which is the only way Tajweed truly sticks. About Tajweed classes →
- Hifz (memorization) for women — a structured program of daily sabaq (new lesson), sabqi (recent revision) and manzil (long-term revision), with a female teacher who tracks and tests you. Motherhood and Hifz are not mutually exclusive — they just need a schedule built around your reality. About the Hifz course →
- Tafsir and Quranic Arabic — go beyond recitation and understand what you recite. Tafsir classes · Quranic Arabic
Timings that respect a woman's day
You and your teacher agree lesson times directly — early morning before the house wakes up, mid-morning after the school run, or late evening once the children sleep. Students learn with us from the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, so timezone coverage is wide. If a week goes sideways — a sick child, guests, Ramadan — lessons reschedule; they don't lapse.
A note on learning during menses
Sisters often ask whether Quran study must stop during their period. Scholars differ on recitation during menses, and many permit reciting from memory or reading from a screen, while listening, revision by listening, Tafsir and Arabic study are broadly considered fine — but this is a fiqh question, so please ask a scholar you trust for your own situation. Practically: your teacher is a woman, so you can discuss it openly, and lessons simply shift to listening, theory or Tafsir for those days. Your momentum never breaks.
What it costs
Private 1-on-1 lessons with your own female teacher are $40 per month — five live 30-minute lessons a week, every minute focused on you. If that is out of reach, the Group Batch plan is $12 per month: five live weekly classes in a small group capped at 10 students, where every student still recites and is corrected in every class. Both are month-to-month with no contract, and both start with a free trial.
Built by a woman, for exactly this
Maktab Quran was founded by Samreen Siddiqui, and classes for sisters are not an afterthought here — they are part of why the platform exists. In her words: "Our job is to bring the teacher and the student together — with sincerity, and with excellence." If you have been waiting years for a class that finally fits your life, this is it. One free trial lesson from now, you'll know.