The corpus is the product.

Al-Zilal is a product by Ahmed Samy, specced, designed, built, tested and shipped end to end.

A reader for Fi Zilal al-Qur'an, in Arabic, on phones and on the web. The app is small; the book is not. Nine million characters across 114 surahs, extracted from a printed edition that lost things on the way. So I repaired what it lost: 231 unreachable verses recovered, 1,290 broken sentences rejoined.

Nine million characters, read on a phone.

Every surah and every section, with each verse marked where its commentary begins. Highlights are stored by their text, so they survive every corpus fix. Search runs on the device, the web reader is a static site, and a one-tap report sends the exact passage when something reads wrong.

In numbers

114 surahs
6,236 verses, every one reachable
231 verses the printed edition lost, recovered

Built with

Flutter · Next.js 15 · static · Python corpus tools · Web Worker search · Xcode Cloud

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