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Full provenance for every content asset shipped with this site.

Data sources at a glance

  • Arabic text: Tanzil Project — Uthmani & simple (CC BY 3.0).
  • English: Pickthall (public domain) via Tanzil; transliteration from Tanzil.
  • Urdu: Maududi & Jalandhry via Tanzil.
  • French: Hamidullah (public domain) via Tanzil.
  • Spanish: Cortés & Garcia via Tanzil.
  • Indonesian: Kemenag (Bahasa) via Tanzil.
  • Fonts: Amiri, Noto Naskh/Sans Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu (SIL OFL 1.1) via Google Fonts.
  • Icons: Lucide (ISC).
  • AI explanations: Lovable AI Gateway (Google Gemini), cached server-side. Not tafsir, not fatwa.
  • Paper texture & topical index: original assets owned by this operator.

Detailed per-asset breakdown follows below.

Arabic Quran (Uthmani script)

License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0)

Source: https://tanzil.net

Tanzil Project, quran-uthmani.txt and quran-simple.txt. Used unmodified.

Translations

English — Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)

License: Public domain

Source: https://tanzil.net

Language code: en. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.

Urdu — Sayyid Abul Aʿla Maududi — Tafhim al-Quran

License: Tanzil distribution — non-commercial use with attribution

Source: https://tanzil.net

Language code: ur. Direction: RTL. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.

French (Français) — Muhammad Hamidullah

License: Public domain

Source: https://tanzil.net

Language code: fr. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.

Spanish (Español) — Julio Cortés

License: Tanzil distribution — non-commercial use with attribution

Source: https://tanzil.net

Language code: es. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.

Indonesian (Bahasa) — Indonesian Ministry of Religious Affairs (Kemenag)

License: Public domain — Government of Indonesia

Source: https://tanzil.net

Language code: id. Direction: LTR. Sourced from the Tanzil Project translation collection. Each translation is presented unmodified; please consult the source for the canonical text.

Other assets

English transliteration

License: Tanzil Project translation collection — see source

Source: https://tanzil.net (en.transliteration.txt)

Sourced from Tanzil's translation collection. License terms to be verified before any commercial use; if ambiguity is found prior to public launch, this asset will be replaced with a deterministic generated transliteration.

Arabic fonts

License: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Source: https://fonts.google.com

Amiri, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Sans Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu — served by Google Fonts.

Handmade paper texture

License: Generated asset — owned by this operator

Source: —

Original generated texture (no third-party paper photo). Free to redistribute.

UI icons

License: ISC License

Source: https://lucide.dev

Lucide icon set.

AI explanations

License: Generated content — see Disclaimer

Source: Lovable AI Gateway (Google Gemini)

Generated on demand and cached. Not tafsir, not fatwa. Constrained by system prompt to avoid rulings.

Concordance & topical index

License: Original compilation by this operator

Source: —

The keyword search and topic browse list are an original compilation built from the Pickthall translation and Tanzil Uthmani text already licensed above. No content was copied or derived from any copyrighted concordance or subject index.

Excluded from this release

The following are deliberately not included until each is individually license-verified: Yusuf Ali, Shakir, Saheeh International, The Clear Quran, any English classical tafsir (including translations of Tafsir al-Jalalayn or Ibn Kathir), and copyrighted audio recitations.

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