About this course

Independently aligned with the Cambridge IGCSE Islamiyat 0493 syllabus for examinations in 2028.

What this course is for

It is designed to support thorough syllabus coverage and high-level examination preparation — with a teacher, for homework, for independent study, and for revision. It does not promise a grade, and you should be wary of anything that does. What it does offer is complete coverage, real evidence to quote, and honest practice in the exact answer shapes the examination uses.

Sources and accuracy

• Arabic. Prescribed Qur’an Arabic is entered in Uthmani/Hafs script from the Noble Qur’an Encyclopedia dataset distributed through Quran JSON (CC BY-SA 4.0), then checked against the stated sura and verse references. It is not extracted from the syllabus PDF.
• Translation. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (1934) (public domain). Chosen because it is out of copyright and matches the wording used in the prescribed-passage list. Any recognised translation is acceptable in the examination — learn the meaning, not one fixed English wording.
• Hadiths. The syllabus states the 20 prescribed Hadiths are all recorded by al-Bukhari or by Muslim in their Sahih collections, many by both.
• Disputed reports. Where accounts differ — dates, numbers, the details of contested events — this course says so rather than presenting one version as settled fact.
• Sunni and Shi'a material. Presented descriptively and respectfully, as the syllabus requires knowledge of both, without advocacy for either.

Practice questions

Every question on this site is original and labelled "Exam-style practice question". Nothing here is presented as a genuine past paper. Where sample responses are annotated with a likely level, that annotation is Our estimate of the likely level, not a Cambridge marking decision.

Terminology

Spellings follow the syllabus's own printed forms so your answers use wording examiners recognise. The glossary lists every term. Where the syllabus itself varies — it writes both "God" and "Allah", and uses "(pbuh)" where this site uses ﷺ — either form is perfectly acceptable in the examination.

Your data

Everything you do here — completed lessons, quiz scores, typed answers, bookmarks, display settings — is stored in your own browser. Nothing is sent to a server, there are no accounts, no trackers and no third-party services. You can export or erase it all from My progress.