Credits
A one-screen summary of what built this site. For the full reference list, see Sources.
Data
- Quranic Arabic Corpus v0.4 (Leeds). Kais Dukes, 2009–2017. Morphological annotation of all 77,429 word-tokens. GPL licensed. corpus.quran.com
- Tanzil Uthmani text and translations. Served via the alquran.cloud API. CC BY-ND 3.0.
- Egyptian Standard (Cairo 1924) revelation order. Public-domain reference for the four-period chronology.
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Mishkat Mutashabihat corpus. Alhassan777 /
Threadwork. Verse-to-verse cross-reference data drawn from 13
classical Islamic books of mutashabihat scholarship (1,905
verse nodes, 3,294 directed edges). Stored in this site as
data/qursim/, a legacy folder name kept from an earlier citation of the QurSim corpus (Sharaf and Atwell, LREC 2012); QurSim's canonical source (corpus.quran.com/qursim.jsp) is no longer accessible, so the data was replaced with Mishkat's. See Sources for the full note. License pending: not published in the source repository at time of writing. github.com/Alhassan777/Mishkat
Scholarly lineage
- Hamid al-Din al-Farahi (1863–1930). Founder of the coherence-based (nazm) reading tradition.
- Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904–1997). Student of Farahi, author of Tadabbur-i-Qur'an.
- Mustansir Mir. Leading English-language scholar of Farahi-Islahi coherence reading. Coherence in the Qur'an, American Trust Publications. Wrote the foreword to Khan's 2013 An Exercise.
- Irfan Ahmad Khan (1931–2018). Founding director of the Association of Quranic Understanding. The principal influence behind this site.
Typography
- Amiri. Khaled Hosny and contributors. Arabic text typeface. SIL Open Font License 1.1. github.com/aliftype/amiri
- Cormorant Garamond. Christian Thalmann (Catharsis Fonts). Serif display typeface. SIL Open Font License 1.1. github.com/CatharsisFonts/Cormorant
- Inter. Rasmus Andersson. Sans-serif interface typeface. SIL Open Font License 1.1. github.com/rsms/inter
- Noto Nastaliq Urdu. The Noto Project Authors. Nastaliq typeface for Urdu translations. SIL Open Font License 1.1. github.com/notofonts/nastaliq
- Noto Serif Bengali. The Noto Project Authors. Serif typeface for Bengali translations. SIL Open Font License 1.1. github.com/notofonts/bengali
- Noto Serif Devanagari. The Noto Project Authors. Serif typeface for Hindi translations. SIL Open Font License 1.1. github.com/notofonts/devanagari
Typefaces are self-hosted rather than loaded from a font CDN, so each is redistributed with the site under its own license, with the license text bundled beside the font files — see NOTICE.md.
Build
- Static site, hosted on Netlify.
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Build script written in Node.js with no external dependencies. See
scripts/build-leeds.js. - Site source: github.com/saebchicago/qurandiscourses.
- Designed and maintained by Saeb, Dr. Khan's grandson.
Contributors
Everyone whose accepted work shapes the site, from
data/contributors.json. Your name lands here
with your first merged contribution; see
Contribute.
- Saeb A. Ahsan: Maintainer; transcription of Dr. Khan's published outlines and glosses
Privacy
- No analytics. No tracking. No cookies.
- Preferences, reading progress, passage cache, pinned references, reader-authored worksheets, and study notes are saved in the browser's local storage and are not sent by the site. Each reader-authored store has its own clear control so changing display settings cannot erase writing unexpectedly.
- The site makes API calls to alquran.cloud for verse text and translations. Requests contain the selected passage and edition, not notes or preferences; as with any direct web request, the provider receives connection data such as the visitor's IP address and browser headers. See Privacy and data.