~Welcome to IQRA, the Islamic and Quranic Research Association

~Welcome to QuranResearch.ORG, an IQRA’s system for Quranic research, where

• You can browse the Quran text, run queries & publish your results •

Mission Statement

QuranResearch.ORG aims to provide the space and tools that ease, support and integrate the efforts of researchers in Quranic research. QuranResearch.ORG provides a public backend database server that contains an indexed representation of the Quran text in addition to a set of general-purpose tools and packages to perform counting, searching and analysis of the Quran text. QuranResearch.ORG invites Researchers to issue their queries against our public backend database server and to, then, retrieve/analyze/share their results through the system’s frontend. Our website is designed to serve as a “wiki” style repository for all the results that researchers would obtain and reflect on from their efforts in Quranic research. We hope to provide a framework for Quranic Research in the fields of: Textual Analysis, Numeric Analysis, Linguistic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

QuranResearch.ORG Features

• Accessibility

  • The system provides a database of the Quran text that is publicly available and open to all researchers.

  • Researchers can issue their queries through the QuranResearch.ORG website and count on the backend server to run their “possibly” long-running queries, then, notify the users once the results are ready. No need for hardware or software installation on the researcher’s side.

• Efficiency and performance

  • The system provides a highly indexed representation of the Quran text that speeds up the search and analysis of the Quran text.

  • The system aims at scaling up to multiple concurrent users performing long-running queries on the Quran text.

• Accuracy

  • The system aims to provide an accurate database for the whole Quran, with accurate information and statistics.

  • The system aims to support true claims around “numeric miracles in Quran” with concrete numbers and, meanwhile, refute false claims that are bare of truth.

• Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), tools and packages

  • The system provides an open platform for researchers to issue their queries against the backend database and retrieve results instantaneously or be notified once results are ready.

  • The system is designed for developers who are comfortable with their programming skills and who are willing to use these skills in Quranic research.

  • The system provides an interface with settings and tuning knobs to easily search and retrieve similar/identical words/ayahs (المتشابهات) and in which Surahs they appear.

  • The system provides layers of data analysis, data mining and data visualization on top of the Quran database.

• Knowledge sharing and research network

  • This website is expected to be the “Wikipedia-like hub” that lists all the results from the collected efforts of the community of Quran researchers in one central place.

  • The website is expected to build a network of researchers in the field, where they can communicate, provide feedback and collaborate in research.

  • The website does not only aim to be a hub for sharing results but also a hub for researchers to share pluggable tools, modules and packages that researchers can use and integrate in their research. Consequently, the “value of the whole system becomes greater than the sum of the parts”.