Crescent Quran Corpus Syntactic Treebank

 
Crescent Quran Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource which shows the syntax, morphology and Arabic grammarCrescent Quran Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource which shows the syntax, morphology and Arabic grammar for each word in the Holy Quran. for each word in the Holy Quran.
Syntactic Treebank

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Book review of Farid Esack’s Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism

Book review of Farid Esack’s Qur’an, Liberation and Pluralism,
Oxford: Oneworld, 1997.
by Abdal Hakim Murad
http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/ahm/esack.htm

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Biggest Quran claimed

AJMER: On the occasion of 796 Urs of Khwaja Garib Nawaj Chisti the devotees will be able to see the biggest Quran of the world which will be kept in the dargah premises.
Sayeed Najmul Hasan Chisti claims that he has prepared the biggest Quran in the world which is 8 feet broad and 5 feet [...]

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The Koran Interpreted

An English Audiobook of The Koran.
Excellent links from Mere Islam: Some Qur’an Related Links

http://www.thekoraninterpreted.org/
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/koran/koran-arberry10.html

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An Introduction to the Science of Tafsir

Mufti Shafi Uthmani
The literal meaning of tafseer in the Arabic language is to open or to explain, interpret or comment. Technically, the science of tafseer is a branch of knowledge in which the meanings of the Quran are explained and its injunctions and wisdoms are described openly and clearly. (al-Burham) Addressing the Holy [...]

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Queen Elizabeth II visits mosque, listens to Quran recital

BURSA, Turkey (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II listened to a recital of the Quran at an Ottoman-era mosque Wednesday, the second day of a state visit to Turkey.
Her shoes removed and her head covered, the queen heard a religious scholar recite verses from the holy book at the 15th-century Green Mosque.
Earlier, the British monarch watched [...]

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U.S. soldier uses Quran for target practice

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A soldier used the Quran — Islam’s holy book — for target practice, forcing the chief U.S. commander in Baghdad to issue a formal apology on Saturday. from CNN

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Koran Sells for Record 2.5 Million Pounds at Christie’s, London

By Scott Reyburn
April 9 (Bloomberg) — A 7th-century leaf from a Koran fetched a record 2.5 million pounds ($4.92 million) with fees in London yesterday at Christie’s International’s biggest-grossing sale of Islamic art.
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First verse of the Koran in 6,000 different styles

New Delhi, Apr 8 His inclination towards calligraphy was realised way back in school, when he frequently labelled the notebooks of his classmates with their names written in beautiful artistic forms.
However, for 60-year old Hashim Akhtar Naqvi, an architect by profession and calligrapher by interest, the inclination became a life-long devotion when he took [...]

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English Ma`ariful Quran

The famous tafsir of Hz Mufti Shafi r.a. (father of Mufti Taqi and Mufti Rafi` Uthmani) can be downloaded here.

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