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
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.
- Maintained by Saeb, Dr. Khan's grandson, with AI coding assistance.
Privacy
- No analytics. No tracking. No cookies.
- Preferences (depth, translations, theme) are saved in the browser's local storage, never sent anywhere, and can be cleared anytime via Settings.
- The site makes API calls to alquran.cloud for verse text and translations. No personal data is sent or stored.