# qurancomputing.org — International Computing Institute for Quran and Islamic Sciences
# المعهد العالمي لحوسبة القرآن والعلوم الإسلامية

> A US-licensed non-profit academic research institute combining Quranic sciences
> with modern computing. The institute builds Quran databases, Arabic NLP tools,
> AI research systems, and free public applications for scholars and Muslims worldwide.

## About the institute

- **Name (EN):** International Computing Institute for Quran and Islamic Sciences
- **Name (AR):** المعهد العالمي لحوسبة القرآن والعلوم الإسلامية
- **Type:** US-licensed non-profit academic research institute
- **Website:** https://qurancomputing.org/
- **Languages:** Arabic (default) and English — toggle via ?lang=en on any page

## Mission

Promote scientific and technical research in Quranic sciences; develop advanced
computational tools for researchers and Muslims worldwide; build specialized Quran
databases; develop Arabic NLP algorithms; publish peer-reviewed research; train
specialized human resources; collaborate with global academic institutions.

## Public applications (by the same institute)

- [Quran.chat — Al-Bayan Quran Query](https://quran.chat/): AI-powered Tafseer
  search across more than 180,000 pages of reference Tafseer books, returning both
  a summary and the detailed source pages to browse; Quran statistics on the
  position and number of occurrences of every letter, word, aya and sura and at the
  level of the whole Quran; multi-lingual Quran grammar diagrams with word-by-word
  translation; Maqasid topic search with knowledge-graph visualisation; ask the
  chatbot in natural language — answers in 30+ languages.
- [Tajweed.chat](https://tajweed.chat/): Interactive Holy Quran Tajweed teaching
  app — every Tajweed rule with highlighted Mushaf text and audio, smart recitation
  correction for tilawah, listening to Quran reciters, self-paced hifz with progress
  reports, Arabic Quran grammar diagrams with translation, and word-by-word
  translation of the Quran into 66 languages, with a chatbot — UI in 66+ languages.
- [Hadith.chat](https://hadith.chat/): Advanced Hadith platform and encyclopedia
  with AI-powered search — research on narrators (ruwa) and chains of narration
  (isnad), advanced analytics, timeline visualisation, interconnected context, and
  multi-lingual translations.
- [AlArabic.chat](https://alarabia.chat/): Deep-learning models for Arabic language
  processing — grammar (i'rab) analysis, tashkeel (diacritization), identifying
  Hadith boundaries within a running text, and separating the sanad (chain) from the
  matn (body) of a Hadith. The free test application for the institute's four
  open-source models; weights, training data and the method paper are at
  https://github.com/qurancomp/khair-arabic-models (Apache-2.0).

## Key public pages

- [Home](https://qurancomputing.org/): institute overview, vision, mission, projects
- [About](https://qurancomputing.org/about): vision, mission, objectives, board
- [Projects](https://qurancomputing.org/projects): active research projects
- [Applications](https://qurancomputing.org/apps): institute software tools
- [Knowledge Library](https://qurancomputing.org/library): public research outputs
- [Volunteer](https://qurancomputing.org/volunteer): join as researcher, developer, translator
- [Contact](https://qurancomputing.org/contact): get in touch

## Active research projects (examples)

- AI-powered Quranic morphology analyzer (open source)
- Semantic knowledge graph of the entire Quran (114 surahs, 6,236 ayat)
- Interactive Quran learning platform for children (ages 5–15)