The people, projects and books this site is built on.
لَا يَشْكُرُ اللَّهَ مَنْ لَا يَشْكُرُ النَّاسَ
“He who does not thank people has not thanked Allah.”
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him). Sunan Abu Dawud 4811, also in Jami' at-Tirmidhi and Musnad Ahmad. Authentic.
ILMHUB was built to help people learn Arabic so they can understand the Quran.
It could not have been built alone. What you read here rests on the work of many, many individuals — most of whom we have never met — on resources given freely online by Muslims across the Ummah, and on books written centuries before any of us. May Allah reward every one of them.
It is not possible to name everyone. Those listed below are the main resources this site draws on, and the list is kept up to date: when we take something new, it is added here.
And to those who give so that this stays free — many of them quietly, without leaving a name — may Allah make it a sadaqah jariyah for every single one of you.
An early downloadable version of the corpus gave us the part-of-speech codes and the first set of word-frequency figures, many years ago. The analysis on this site has been rebuilt and extended far beyond it since, but the debt is real and we are grateful for it.
The word-by-word database behind these pages - the segmentation, the per-word meanings, the roots, the sarf and i'rab - is our own work, built up over many years by Ustadh Muhammad Arjan Ali together with Dr Abdulazeez. Every word, meaning and count shown on this site is drawn from it.
Published by the Institute of Qur'anic Studies, Birmingham, and distributed by The Qur'an Project. The introduction and themes on each surah page, and the summary of what each ruku covers, are reproduced from it unchanged. Where that book credits another work in a footnote, the credit travels with the text.
The full-ayah translation printed beneath the Arabic. The meaning shown above each individual word is not taken from it - that is the word's own meaning in that ayah, from our database.
We do not quote these on the lesson pages - a teacher explains, he does not recite references. But this is where the knowledge comes from, and they deserve naming.
Al-Ajurrumiyya · Alfiyyat Ibn Malik · Qatr an-Nada · Hidayat an-Nahw · Shadha al-'Arf.
An-Nahw at-Tatbiqi (Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz) · An-Nahw al-Wafi (Abbas Hasan) · An-Nahw al-Wadih · At-Tatbiq an-Nahwi and At-Tatbiq as-Sarfi (al-Rajihi).
The Uthmani script used for the Quranic text, from the King Fahd Glorious Qur'an Printing Complex.
Arabic type for grammar examples and terms. SIL Open Font Licence.
The English type across the site. SIL Open Font Licence.
The search that runs on this site, entirely in your browser. MIT licence.
The fonts above are used under the SIL Open Font Licence; Pagefind under the MIT licence.
The Qur'an Companion is reproduced under the publisher's own terms, which permit any part to be reproduced provided the material is not changed.
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