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Data sources

The Qur'an text, translations, tafsir and language datasets in this app come from the projects below. We are grateful to everyone who built and shared them.

Last updated 24 August 2026

The Qur'an text and page layout

The Qur'an script, the Mushaf page layout, the script font, and the word by word translation and transliteration come from the Quranic Universal Library (QUL).

qul.tarteel.ai

Translation and tafsir

The English translation of the Qur'an is Sahih International.

The concise tafsir is Al-Mukhtasar fi Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim, shown in both Arabic and English. The in depth tafsir is the English translation of Tafsir Ibn Kathir.

Grammar and morphology

Word level morphology and the definitions of many Qur'anic words come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus, by Kais Dukes at the University of Leeds.

corpus.quran.com

Sentence structure draws on the Extended Quranic Treebank, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.

doi.org/10.17632/rk96pn66m4.1 · CC BY 4.0

Dictionary

The built in dictionary is Hans Wehr, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic.

Our own work

The curriculum, the teaching, the material we write and record, and the platform we built to deliver it are our own.