About & Credits
Quran Maqasid helps you understand the Quran directly, one word at a time. Every lesson is built from the surah itself: tap a word to learn its meaning, listen to a renowned reciter, test yourself, and practice your own recitation with private, on-device feedback.
Sources and credits
This app is only possible thanks to the generous work of these projects:
- Quran text (Uthmani script), word-by-word meanings and transliteration — Quran data provided by Quran Foundation (Quran.com)
- English translation (default) — Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1934), original edition — transcribed by sacred-texts.com; transcription errors corrected
- English translation (optional) — Marmaduke Pickthall (1930) — Tanzil translations collection
- Urdu translations — فتح محمد جالندھری (default), مولانا وحید الدین خان — Tanzil translations collection (Jalandhry) and Quran Foundation (Wahiduddin Khan)
- Turkish translations — Diyanet Vakfı Meali, Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır Meali, Süleyman Ateş Meali — Tanzil translations collection
- Indonesian translation — Kementerian Agama RI (edisi 2002) — via Quran Foundation (Quran.com)
- Verse recitation audio — Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly — Islamic Network (alquran.cloud)
- Word-by-word pronunciation audio — Quran.com
- Arabic tafsirs — al-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir (Ibn Ashur), Mafatih al-Ghayb (al-Razi), al-Muharrar al-Wajiz (Ibn Atiyya), al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Quran (al-Qurtubi, with its editor's notes), Nazm al-Durar (al-Biqa'i), Adwa' al-Bayan (al-Shinqiti) — Quranic Universal Library (Tarteel), via spa5k/tafsir_api
- Urdu translation — Shaykh al-Hind Mahmud al-Hasan; with its Urdu tafsir — Tafsir-e-Usmani by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani — via Quran Foundation (Quran.com)
- Tafsir of al-Maturidi — Ta'wilat Ahl al-Sunna, ed. Majdi Baslum (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, 2005) — altafsir.com, via the OpenITI corpus
- Tafsir al-Manar by Muhammad Rashid Rida, from al-Fatiha to Yusuf 52 — altafsir.com, via the OpenITI corpus
- Tafsir of al-Alusi — Ruh al-Ma'ani by Shihab al-Din Mahmud al-Alusi — altafsir.com, via the OpenITI corpus
- Tafsir of al-Qushayri — Lata'if al-Isharat by Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri, its passages checked against Ibrahim al-Basyuni's edition (al-Hay'a al-Misriyya al-'Amma li-l-Kitab, 3rd ed.) — altafsir.com and al-Maktaba al-Shamila, via the OpenITI corpus
- Tafsir al-Mizan — al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Qur'an by Muhammad Husayn al-Tabataba'i — altafsir.com, via the OpenITI corpus
- Tafsir of al-Zamakhshari — al-Kashshaf, Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi edition (Beirut, 3rd ed., 1407 AH); page 1/12, missing from its digital copy, from the altafsir.com copy — al-Maktaba al-Shamila, via the OpenITI corpus
- Ibn al-Munayyir al-Iskandari, al-Intisaf (his replies to al-Kashshaf), as this edition prints them in its footnotes, and where it prints them — al-Maktaba al-Shamila
- Word counts and lemmas for Essential Quranic Words — Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes), revised edition by mustafa0x/quran-morphology
- Classical dictionaries — al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran (al-Raghib al-Isfahani, ed. Safwan Dawudi), 'Umdat al-Huffaz (al-Samin al-Halabi, ed. Muhammad Basil Uyun al-Sud), Mu'jam Maqayis al-Lugha (Ibn Faris, ed. Abd al-Salam Harun) and Lisan al-Arab (Ibn Manzur, Dar Sadir) — OpenITI corpus (texts from al-Maktaba al-Shamila)
- Quran text searched by its words (Tanzil Quran Text, Simple, version 1.1, kept verbatim; Creative Commons Attribution 3.0) — Tanzil Project
- Speech-recognition model — whisper-base-ar-quran — Tarteel AI (ONNX conversion by eventhorizon0), hosted on Hugging Face
- On-device AI runtime — Transformers.js by Hugging Face
- Arabic fonts — Amiri Quran and Scheherazade New; Urdu font — Noto Nastaliq Urdu — Khaled Hosny, SIL International and Google (SIL Open Font License)
May Allah reward everyone who contributed to these works. All rights to the content above remain with their respective owners.
A note on accuracy
Translations convey the meaning of the Arabic as understood by their translators. Recitation feedback is automated and checks the words you recite, not tajweed. For a complete understanding, learn with qualified teachers.
Questions or feedback? Email us at contact@quranicarabic.app.
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