The Quranic Arabic Corpus

	Aaron Wenner 28th January, 2010 I'm extremely impressed with the Qur'an project. Your implementation of Qur'anic grammar alongside the text and the resulting interlinear format will be a major tool for researchers and instructors everywhere. - Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
	Tanveer Ahmed 28th January, 2010 I hope my e-mail finds you in good health, and your project goes from strength to strength as the days go by.
	Eskandar 27th January, 2010 This website contains detailed grammatical information for every word of the Qur'an. Very useful resource for those who are using the Qur'an to learn Arabic!
	Renacido 27th January, 2010 Wow!
	Tayyeba Faisal 26th January, 2010 Dear Dr. Atwell, I am greatly impressed by the work done by your natural language research team regarding the building of the Quranic corpus and the Quranic concepts ontology. - National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
	Uthman 26th January, 2010 This is a fantastic resource I came across some time ago for reading the Holy Qur'an online. It's brilliant!
	Muhammad Usman Khan 25th January, 2010 Assalamo Alaikum, I have viewed your web site and found it very informative. I shall ever remain thankful. - Pakistan
	Insaan 25th January, 2010 Jazaakallah khair for this. This is great! I always thought how lovely it would be if something like this was done for the whole Qur'an, and here it is! May Allah reward you abundantly both in this world and the next. Ameen.
	Shuaib Hanief 23rd January, 2010 Kais, I wanted to give you some feedback. I primarily use the site for learning Arabic. There is no tool like the one you have developed.
	Muneem Wahid 22nd January, 2010 Salaam Kais, I came across your website and have found that your absolute precision with respect to each individual word is helping me much in order to understand the grammar and literal meanings much more. With your site, I am more easily able to spot patterns, tenses, objects/subjects and the many other grammatical components. This in turn allows me to add meaning to each Arabic word component.
	Muhammad Dawood 20th January, 2010 Dear Brother, May Allah, the most knowledgeable, help you in your magnificent project. I am happy to see such a stylish and great effort, and wish I could participate in such a great work.
	Boumediene Belkhouche 19th January, 2010 Dear Kais, I am impressed by the quality and extent of your work on the Qur'an. One aspect that I am interested is your approach to representing the grammar (the syntactic treebank). - United Arabic Emirates University
	Saleem Kalathil 19th January, 2010 Assalaamualaikum, I Hope this finds you well and fine by the mercy of Allah. I take this opportunity to appreciate you for your website and work on the Quran. May allah bless you in this world and hereafter to the way to Jannah. - Doha, Qatar
	Fatma Faisal Saad Said 15th January, 2010 Dear Kais, Thank you for this great initiative, I appreciate the hard work that goes into this. If there is anything I can do to help the project linguistically then please let me know and I am more than pleased to make the time. Thanks for setting up this much needed project. - Department of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, University of London
	Abu Treika 10th January, 2010 Just had a quick browse. What an excellent resource masha'allah.
	Abu Hannah 10th January, 2010 Agreed, and now saved to bookmarks...
	Behnam Sadeghi 8th January, 2010 Dear Kais, My name is Behnam, and I'm a professor of Islamic studies at Stanford. I was delighted to see the Quranic Arabic Corpus, and I would like to applaud you for your effort. - Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies
	Haq Nawaz 7th January, 2009 Hello, My name is Haq Nawaz from Pakistan. I am a software engineer and student of madrasah learning Classic Arabic morphology. During surfing, I found your site and it is nice to see it. - Pakistan
	Ali Shahriar 3rd January, 2010 This seems to be the most advanced piece of software on the internet related to Qur’anic Arabic language I have ever come across. I have literally spent a countless number of hours browsing this site and only feel as though I have scratched the surface. All I will say is that if you’re learning the Arabic language, then this website has to be included in your top reference sources, especially if you’re concentrating, as I am, on understanding the Arabic language of the Qur’an, which substantially differs from modern colloquial Arabic. - The Muslim Post

December 2009

	Nida 29th December, 2009 Jazakillahu Khair.
	Viquarunnisa Abdulaleem 28th December, 2009 Mashaallah, how easy to learn, may Allah reward the best to all those who work so hard to benfit the ummah, may Allah give us toufeeq to serve. Aameen.
	Winfried Leclaire 27th December, 2009 Assalamu Alaikum, First of all I have to say that I really like the Quranic Corpus as it already has been proven very useful for my own studies (I found the site just a few days ago). The graphical arrangement of the grammar sections is absolutely awesome. Also the amount of grammatical information is huge. I whish you all the best for your further studies. May Allah bless and reward you for every minute you spend studying and working on the Quranic Corpus project. - Germany
	Nazia Quraishi 21st December, 2009 My name is Nazia Quraishi and I recently came across your project and found it to be highly useful. Recently, I started studying the word-for-word translation of the Quran along with word analysis and tafsir.
	Nancy Klein 19th December, 2009 Hello Kais, I am a new convert of 15 months, and in the beginning of learning Arabic, God willing! In my continuous search on-line for resources, I discovered this site a couple of weeks ago and was truly amazed! I look forward to following this project as it continues to develop. Peace, Best Regards.
	Mahmoud Shaaban 19th December, 2009 Thank you so much for your great efforts. Yours sincerely.
	Uzmaa Jamal 19th December, 2009 To whom it may concern, First of all, I thank Allah ta'alah, he leads me towards his path. I just want to congratulate you with your all team, I really appreciate your work. - Karachi, Pakistan
	FlagBearer 15th December, 2009 A very good site masha'Allaah. May Allaah reward those who are behind it in full, ameen.
	Turabbie 15th December, 2009 Ameen... I just recieved a link to this website in my inbox... mashaa'Allah it's excellent! Jazzakillahu Khaire.
	Ahmed 8th December, 2009 Brother, this is absolutely incredible! The possibilities are endless masha'Allah! I am definitely very excited to work with you guys. - Quran.com
	Paul Tupper 8th December, 2009 Hi, I am using the Quranic Arabic Corpus to help in studying Arabic phonotactics and I love it. Thanks for making such an informative, easy-to-use, and beautiful resource. Thanks again for your work. - Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, Canada
	Shahad Miah 5th December, 2009 Dear Sir, The Quranic Arabic Corpus is a wonderful piece of work and I can see a lot of research has gone into it. What I would like is a list of all the source words used in the Quran and their frequency. I am trying to identify the most frequently used words in the Quran. I would be very grateful if you can assist me in my request. - Head of Information, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
	Assem Chelli 2nd December, 2009 Salam, This is what I have been searching for. I am a student at the National High School of Computer Science, in Algiers. I am preparing my final project before graduation on a search engine for Quranic documents. For this, I need an index of words in the Quran, and for each word its lemma, root, affixes, type and grammar. This corpus will be half of the work. Thank you for encouraging me. - L'Ecole nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria
	Abdul Rahman Adnan 2nd December, 2009 Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this wonderful project. I was told about this website a few days ago by a friend. I have been a (part-time and mostly self taught) student of Quranic Arabic for the last 25 or so years. - Shah Alam, Malaysia
	Mai Zaki 2nd December, 2009 Dear Kais, I am very impressed by the work you are doing with the Quran morphological and syntactic analysis. I really want to contribute to this wonderful project. I am a lecturer in Arabic and translation studies. - Middlesex University, London

November 2009

	AJ 30th November, 2009 This is one of the best projects of the Quran for all those lovers of the word of Allah and may Allah reward and bless those who put all this together. It is amazing work and very useful. Please everyone visit this site and make use of it. All these types of Quranic projects, whether tafseer, translations into almost every language, transliteration, grammar and Quranic language, leave no possible reason not to learn the book of Allah. It seems like Allah is providing human beings with every possible means and access to reach his holy book, so that we can not argue and reason on the day of judgement that we did not have access to his book due to various barriers of language. - Only Quran Blog
	Qamaruddin Shaarani 30th November, 2009 Dear Kais Dukes, I wish to convey my deepest appreciation and heartfelt thanks for your great academic work on the Quran. I have just downloaded the 3 files and hope to complement what I am learning now from my teacher. As some of us are "English educated" Non-Arabic speaking people, we rely on some English works. Your timely PhD work is most welcome and of great benefit to me and I am sure to many English educated Non-Arabic speakers. Once, again, my sincerest appreciation and wishing you greater happiness in your work and career. Best wishes and warm regards. - Malaysia
	hafsa48 26th November, 2009 Seems very interesting. - The Shariah Program
	Abu Hurairah 25th November, 2009 This is just amazing. What an epic scope of work.
	Aliman 25th November, 2009 Epic, mashallah. I bookmarked the site to access later. Thanks.
	Umme Laila 25th November, 2009 I found your website very interesting. - Sir Syed University Karachi, Pakistan
	Wajdi Zaghouani 25th November, 2009 Salam Alaykom ya Kais, I was aware of this project a long time ago and was following the improvements made to the website. I am really happy to have the opportunity to take part in this project by any means. - University of Pennsylvania
	Aida Mustapha 25th November, 2009 Dear Kais, I have browsed the website and indeed it is a product of very resourceful and organized research. My research interest is primarily in conversational agent dialogue systems. I'm very pleased to collaborate with your research group in Quranic text. - Universiti Putra, Malaysia
	Aarne Ranta 24th November, 2009 Dear Kais, Thanks for pointing out this website to me! It looks like a very useful resource. - University of Gothenburg, Sweden
	Bilal Abdul Khaliq 24th November, 2009 I had a look at the website and the work is quite impressive and novel. I would be most interested in some collaboration. - University of Sussex
	Rita Wan-Chik 20th November, 2009 The website is really great. A good way to learn Arabic besides getting Quran translation. - University of Sheffield
	Mahmoud El-Haj 19th November, 2009 Dear Kais, I was trying your system today and it's indeed amazing. Congratulations, this is indeed a huge effort and a very helpful website. I worked on Quranic Arabic NLP for a while where I was mainly focusing on information retrieval and Quranic thesaurus search in addition to tajweed rule extraction. - University of Essex
	Sherin Gul 19th November, 2009 Assalamu Alaikum, I found this wonderful site. You people have done remarkable job for the Muslim ummah. But I have one question. Do you have the same information in Urdu instead of English. If yes then please tell me. May Allah reward you in abundance for the marvellous work. Jazakallah.
	Nour Sharabash 18th November, 2009 Assalam alaikum wa rahmatallah wa barakatu, May Allah reward you for your wonderful work on this project. My name is Nour Sharabash. I own the domain name Quran.com. I would love to contribute to this open source project if I can. Again, great work. - Quran.com
	Hamed Al-Suhli 17th November, 2009 Dear Kais, I have monitored your work with interest. - E3rab.com, Syria
	Hamid Zarrabi-Zadeh 16th November, 2009 Salaam, First of all, I would like to thank Kais for his great effort and also for his decision on sharing his valuable database of Quranic grammar and morphology. I hope we can integrate this useful database in other Quranic projects like Tanzil soon inshallah. - Carleton University, Canada - Tanzil Project
	Henda Sfaxi 16th November, 2009 Dear Mr Dukes, I am a future engineer in software engineering at the INSAT in Tunisia. I am dealing with my final project which focuses on the syntactic analysis of the Arabic language and more specifically on dependency relations of Arabic. I am in a French research center LLACAN - CNRS. I just wanted to thank you for your precious help. I wish you all the best with your project.
	Soraya Zaidi 16th November, 2009 I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science. I am currently preparing a PhD on the construction of ontologies in Arabic. I intend to use the Quranic Arabic Corpus in my work. - Annaba University, Algeria
	Abdulazeez Abdulraheem 16th November, 2009 Dear Kais, I was indeed impressed with your work and a couple of weeks ago, we got your site listed in our useful links section. - UnderstandQuran.com
	Hind Salhi 15th November, 2009 This is magnificent... the website now has almost everything that one might need. - SMBA University, Morocco
	Bishaarah Mustafaa 15th November, 2009 Assalaamu Alaikum, Thank you for your great work. Is there some way that I can get this word for word translation in hard book form? I would like one for myself and one for my grandson. - Atlanta, Georgia, USA
	Sameh Farouk 14th November, 2009 Dear Kais, The work you have done is pioneering in its field.
	Jody Bailey 14th November, 2009 A fabulous resource for linguists doing research on the Quran. - University of Texas at Arlington
	Salah Muhammad 13th November, 2009 As-salamu alaykum. My name is Salah. One of my friends introduced me to the website, and I have fallen in love with it. Thank you. Jazakullah Khairun.
	Therese 13th November, 2009 Mashallah Kais, this is amazing. I didn't realise how the website improved so well since the last time I looked at it. Inshallah this will benefit many people from our community and around the world. May Allah bless you for all your efforts. Ameen. - United Kingdom
	Rehan Ahmad 13th November, 2009 Assalamoalaikum. Mashallah, great work.
	Adrian Gully 12th November, 2009 Your project looks absolutely fascinating. I shall enjoy checking it out in more detail. All good wishes. - University of Melbourne
	Waleed Oransa 12th November, 2009 Hello Kais, This is great project. - IBM Egypt
	Idris Mokhtarzada 12th November, 2009 Thank you so much for this. This project is amazing, and I'm glad you're making an effort to keep this data open and free for anyone to use. I believe your efforts will lead to many many good works. I would like to use it in a project I am working on. Thank you. - University of Maryland
	Mahmoud Elsayess 12th November, 2009 Salaam, Thank you for doing a great job. Peace. - ReadVerse.com
	Ahmed Abdelali 8th November, 2009 Dear Kais, I would like to salute you for the tremendous effort for making this project become a reality. Congrats!! - New Mexico State University
	Orhan Elmaz 8th November, 2009 Dear Kais, I am amazed! Could I be of any help to you? I'd love to contribute to this great work! - University of Vienna
	Ali Adams 8th November, 2009 Your work exceeds excellence :)
	sarah_bd_gemini 7th November, 2009 This is a very easy to use site, and the Arabic print is easy to read too.
	Abdul Basit 5th November, 2009 Assalamu Alaikum, It is a wonderful deed you have done for the Muslim Ummah. May Allah reward you in abundance for the marvellous work. Jazakallah. - London, United Kingdom
	Xalil 'Abdullahi 4th November, 2009 As-Salaamu Alay-kum! Your website must be new; however, it is impressive and extremely well done. I have to say that my experience with your website is what I have been needing for the past several years. Today was the first time I have ever used it, and I really dig it, brother! Your website is so perfect for my type of Islamic studies.
	Danang Wijanarko 4th November, 2009 Assalamu'alaikum Kais, This is very nice, and the Quranic corpus project is very useful. Mashallah, may God bless your work. - Indonesia
	Amadeus Meaini 2nd November, 2009 As-Salamu-Alaikom, I am overpowered by this gegantical work and so dumbfounded. I wish I can do with big pleasure such as a work in German. Inschallah. - ArabTrans

October 2009

	Mazhar Anwar Nurani 30th October, 2009 Assalamo Alaikum Kais, I am a student from Pakistan trying to learn knowledge and the truth from the grand Quran. The work undertaken and accomplished by you is marvelous and very helpful for many in the world over. May Allah reward you all, here and in the hereafter. Thanks.
	Lantern 29th October, 2009 Quite amazing and very useful for Arabic students.
	Sam 29th October, 2009 This is awesome.
	Aziza 28th October, 2009 Ahlan Kais, What a wonderful project you have got! I have visited the website, and I like it so much. Great work! - Transparent Language Software
	Mohsen Saboorian 28th October, 2009 Dear Kais, Salaam, I just checked your website and noticed how mature your project has become! I also checked your PhD presentation, and I just wanted to say: wow! What fantastic work! The syntactic treebank is an original idea, which I didn't see in any previous project (from the Haifa project, to commercial and even not-yet-published projects). I really would like to utilize your work in future versions of Zekr. - Tehran University, Iran - Zekr Quran Browser
	raissk 28th October, 2009 Good stuff.
	meelash 27th October, 2009 Just saw this posted on SF. Very nice!
	Farooq Ahmed 27th October, 2009 I am from Pakistan and I'm a teacher of simple and basic Quranic Arabic. Your project will help me to gain knowledge and present to the students. Thanks for your efforts.
	Tim Buckwalter 26th October, 2009 Beautiful work! jazaak allah kheir! - University of Maryland
	Farooq Khan 24th October, 2009 Salam Kais, Thanks indeed for this great work. Now when folks are reading Quran, they can click on a word and get complete information from your web site, thanks to your great work.
	SunniWaqas 23rd October, 2009 Awesome stuff Mashallah! I get a feeling this site will be used for our Wednesday tarkeeb sessions...
	Musaafirah 23rd October, 2009 Fantastic website mashallah! thumbs up
	Muhammad Ishaque Panhwar 23rd October, 2009 Assalam O Allaikum, I am writing from Karachi Pakistan. I have come across your web site and found it a very good source for understanding Quran.
	Muhammad Eissa 23rd October, 2009 I am so impressed with your research project. Best of luck and continued success. - Chicago University
	zaidfarooqi_1 22nd October, 2009 SalaamAleykum, Very nice site, I just stumbled upon it today...
	sa3khan 22nd October, 2009 This is really an amazing site. I especially like the syntactic treebank section.
	Amina786 22nd October, 2009 Wow this is so awesome and helpful, masha'Allah.
	hefsasharif 22nd October, 2009 Nice work mashallah!
	Marwan Boustany 21st October, 2009 Salaam, Excellent work with the website. Would it be possible for this project to be made into a downloadable program format that can be run from a computer? I would love to have this as a tool on my PC to aid in my study of Arabic and the Qur'an.
	Sherif Khattab 18th October, 2009 Hi Kais, I am teaching an introduction to Arabic NLP course to Arabic native-speakers in Cairo university, Egypt. The students have strong linguistic skills but have never been exposed to NLP before. I would like to illustrate to them how they can help in NLP using real, useful examples. I found the Quranic corpus and thought it may be a good idea to introduce the students to the idea of corpus and annotation and actually use their Arabic-grammar skills in the annotation. Thanks a lot. - Cairo University
	Hamdy Soliman 18th October, 2009 I would like to thank you very much for your great effort, information, annotation, interface... everything. Really, it’s very useful! - Sakhr Software
	Hanady Ahmed 18th October, 2009 I would like to congratulate you. It is really perfect work, well done. I am Hanady Ahmed, an assistant professor. I am interested in Arabic natural language processing and text-to-speech systems. - Qatar University
	Abdullah 18th October, 2009 Wa alaikum assalam brother Kais. Jazakallahu khaira for all your excellent work, looks like a lot of value you have added for the muslim ummah. - Verse by Verse Quran
	Hind Salhi 16th October, 2009 Overall the Arabic grammar translation on the website is awesome. - SMBA University, Morocco
	Noorhan Abbas 15th October, 2009 Hi Kais. Congratulations for your fantastic work! Great effort... May Allah reward you for all your efforts...
	Nizar Habash 14th October, 2009 Very neat! - Columbia University
	Faruq Fayaz 4th October, 2009 I like the project very much.
	Ilhan Yalman 2nd October, 2009 Dear Mr Dukes, A few days ago a friend of mine showed me your website and I'm fascinated. I've searched for such a website for years and now I've found it.

September 2009

	Mashhood 30th September, 2009 This is the most unique Quran corpus I have come across on the internet.
	Otakar Smrz 23rd September, 2009 Thank you for a perfect work, and also for the newest references to literature. - Charles University, Prague
	Abrar Hossain Quadery 22nd September, 2009 I named my son Zuhair Ishraque. One day someone commented that 'Ishraque' is a name for a girl. While reciting the Quran I found the word in verse (38:18). Now I find here that the word is masculine. I gave some effort earlier to recite Quran with meaning. Here I find a wonderful website for that. Heartiest gratitude to all behind this grand work. May Allah accept our efforts.
	Mourad Diouri 19th September, 2009 Dear Kais, I just had a quick browse through your site and I have to say it's an amazing achievement both for Arabic and Islam. May Allah reward you for your efforts and I sincerely hope that many people will benefit from it. I will make sure to archive and publicize it in my site. All the best, Salam. - University of Edinburgh
	Burhan 17th September, 2009 Many congratulations on corpus.quran.com. I have been waiting a long time for someone to do this. I developed openburhan.com some years ago and at that time just getting the Arabic of the Quran in text format was a miracle. - OpenBurhan.com
	Motaz Saad 2nd September, 2009 This is really interesting and very impressive work. I am working on text mining (Arabic and English) for my master's thesis. Now I am trying to experiment with the effect of text preprocessing on text mining. Also I am working on improving document representation using an ontology for Arabic and English. - Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine

August 2009

	Lyricallysha 28th August, 2009 thank you for the site =-)
	Abu Maryam 21st August, 2009 Salam Kais, I do not know how many people understand the gravity of your work but it is monumental... Great work. I cannot wait to download it and apply it to our project. - BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
	Matin Abdullah 20th August, 2009 As-Salamu-Alaikum, Great site. I have been looking for something like this. May Allah reward you for this work.
	Abu Fatima 20th August, 2009 Mashallah great site. May Allah reward you for this.
	Umm Hafsah 7th August, 2009 Awesome site.
	sheemae 2nd August, 2009 Salam, This is wonderful - will use it daily Inshallah - Jazak Allaho Khairan
	aamantubillan 2nd August, 2009 Wow. This is a pretty powerful tool. Thanks!
	- Farrah - 1st August, 2009 Salam brother, I have taken a preliminary look and it seems like a really useful, user-friendly tool.
	manZERO 1st August, 2009 very good
	abuhannah 1st August, 2009 real nice site, jzk...

July 2009

	lemons 27th July, 2009 Salam, Jazakallah khair! Excellent!
	rahamath 27th July, 2009 Mashallah. This looks really interesting.
	Wakas 23rd July, 2009 Firstly, I must say my sincere congratulations on this effort. It impressed me! This is something that I and many students of The Quran will benefit from. The accuracy of the grammar info seems good so far. - StudyQuran.org
	Jenicca 23rd July, 2009 Masha'Allah this is a great website. Must have taken so much work. May Allah reward you.
	Ibrahim70 23rd July, 2009 What a wonferful site. I've been looking for something just like the 'word by word' section for ages now and had no luck in finding it until I found it on your site. I can't thank you enough. May Allah ta'ala reward you.
	~H-D~ 22nd July, 2009 Tabarak'Allaah! This website is amazing, good job! May Allaah bless you!
	Shuly Wintner 21st July, 2009 I was pleased to see the Quran corpus online, with the nice user interface and query system. I wish you best of luck with this important project. - University of Haifa
	.: Anna :. 21st July, 2009 masha Allah!! looks really good and useful, insha Allah it'll benefit lots of people very impressive
	the_middle_road 21st July, 2009 Wa alaikum salaam wa rahmatullah Wow, masha Allah. You did all this manually?

May 2009

Abdul-Baquee M. Sharaf

6th May, 2009

Hello Kais,
I was very delighted to see the Quranic morphology. Good job, and keep moving forward!
- University of Leeds

March 2009

Dilworth Parkinson

6th March, 2009

I'm not aware of a POS tagged Quran, but I'm sure a lot of people would be very interested in having one.
- Brigham Young University

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