Online Quran Project

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Online Quran Project (OQP)
Developed by	Iman Mohammad Kashi & Uwe Hideki Matzen
Initial release	December 2007
Written in	ASP.NET C#, JavaScript
Platform	Cross-platform
Available in	Arabic, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Turkish
Genre	Quran
Website	Online Quran Project

The Online Quran Project (OQP) (sometimes spelled as Online Qur’an Project/Online Qur’ān Project) is a quranic project launched in late 2007, aimed to provide an online, multilingual searchable Qur’an text with worldwide translations. The site is translated into several languages, as it is used by Muslims as non-Muslims worldwide. The Online Quran Project is the first website to offer a Qur’an text with full diacritics (tawjeed) rules^[1].

Contents 1 Qur’an text 2 Qur’an translation text 2.1 Bosnian translation 2.2 Croatian translation 2.3 Danish translation 2.4 Dutch translation 2.5 English translation 2.6 French translation 2.7 German translation 2.8 Indonesian translation 2.9 Italian translation 2.10 Norwegian translation 2.11 Persian translation 2.12 Portuguese translation 2.13 Russian translation 2.14 Spanish translation 2.15 Swahili translation 2.16 Swedish translation 2.17 Tatar translation 2.18 Turkish translation 2.19 Urdu translation 3 See Also 4 Links 5 Notes

[edit] Qur’an text

Today one finds quite a number of typos in Qur’an text public available online; mainly due to the following:

• Missing Diacritics
• Text Conversion
• Technical Difficulties

The Tanzil Project is amid to provide a highly verified precise quran text to be used in quranic websites and applications. As stated, quote:

'Our mission in the Tanzil project is to produce a standard quran text and serve as a reliable source for this standard text on the web.'^[2]

Online Quran Project make use of the following Al-Qur’an text, with including

• Superscript alefs [dagger alif] (like in عَلىٰ),
• Pause marks (like ۖ and Sajda)
• Rub al-hizb signs (۞)

[edit] Qur’an translation text

There exists a wide number of different translation online at the Online Quran Project, that have collected the generally used in translation in different languages. A comprehensive list of the translation are available at Online Quran Project:

[edit] Bosnian translation

• Besim Korkut

[edit] Croatian translation

• A.R. Nykl
• I. Hrbek

[edit] Danish translation

• A. S. Madsen

[edit] Dutch translation

• Salomo Keyzer

[edit] English translation

• Abdullah Yusuf Ali (عبد الله يوسف علي)
• A. J. Arberry
• Ahmed Ali (أحمد علي)
• Ali Ünal
• Amatul Rahman Omar
• Bijan Moeinian
• Faridul Haque
• George Sale
• Hamid S. Aziz
• Hassan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
• Hilali & Khan
• J. M. Rodwell
• M. Ahmed & Samira
• M. Asad
• M. Mahoud Ghali
• M. Sarwar
• M. H. Shakir (م. هـ. شاكر)
• Maulana Mohammad Ali
• Muhammed Marmaduke William Pickthall (محمد بيكهال)
• Muhammad Sarwar (محمد سروار)
• Rashad Kalifa
• Shabbir Ahmed (QXP)
• Sher Ali
• Syed V. Ahamed
• Umm Muhammad (Saheed International)
• Transliteration
• Free Minds (Progressive Muslims)

[edit] French translation

• Muhammad Hamidullah (محمد حميد الله)

[edit] German translation

• Adel Theodor Khoury
• Abu Rida Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Rassoul
• Amir Zaidan
• Bubenheim & Elyas

[edit] Indonesian translation

• Bahasa Indonesia

[edit] Italian translation

• Hamza Roberto Piccardo

[edit] Norwegian translation

• Einar Berg

[edit] Persian translation

• Hussain Ansarian (حسین انصاریان)
• Mahdi Elahi Ghomshei (الهی قمشه‌ای)
• Naser Makarem Shirazi (مکارم شیرازی)

[edit] Portuguese translation

• Samir El-Hayek

[edit] Russian translation

• Kuliev E. (Эльмир Кулиев)
• M.-N.O. Osmanov (М.-Н.О. Османов)
• V. Porokhova (Валерия Порохова)

[edit] Spanish translation

• Julio Cortes

[edit] Swahili translation

• Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani

[edit] Swedish translation

• Rashad Kalifa

[edit] Tatar translation

• Yakub b. Nugman

[edit] Turkish translation

• Abdülbâki Gölpinarli
• Alİ Bulaç
• Elmalili Mohammad Hamdí Yazir
• Süleyman Ateş
• Diyanet (Diyanet İşleri Türkçe Meali)
• Yasar Nuri Ozturk (Öztürk Meali)

[edit] Urdu translation

• Ahmed Ali
• Ahmed Rida Khan (احمد رضا خان)
• Fateh Muhammad Jalandhry (جالندہری)
• Tahir ul Qadri (طاہرالقادری)

All the translation are available public for download and use at Online Quran Project Community Site.

[edit] See Also

• The Tanzil Project Official Site
• Zekr Project and The Zekr Project Official Site

[edit] Links

• The Online Quran Project Official Site - Browser all the Qur’an text and translation side by side.
• The Online Quran Project Community Site - Read, view and download the different resource Qur’an translation files.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Embedded font is viewable with Internet Explorer browser, try to browser the Online Quran Project with this browser to see the tajweed rules or download the me_quran font
2. ^ Cited from Tanzil Project Wiki.