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====== Tanzil Project ====== | ====== Tanzil Project ====== | ||
- | **Tanzil** is a Quranic project launched in early 2007 to produce a highly verified Unicode Quran text to be used in Quranic websites and applications. Our mission in the Tanzil project is to produce a standard Unicode Quran text and serve as a reliable source for this standard text on the web. | + | Tanzil is a Quranic project launched in early 2007 to produce a highly verified Unicode Quran text to be used in Quranic websites and applications. Our mission in the Tanzil project is to produce a standard Unicode Quran text and serve as a reliable source for this standard text on the web. |
===== Why Tanzil? ===== | ===== Why Tanzil? ===== | ||
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Since the appearance of the first digital copy of the holy Quran, there had been substantial effort to produce an accurate Quran text, but due to some difficulties (some of which are listed below), these efforts were unsuccessful in many of the cases, and unfortunately, | Since the appearance of the first digital copy of the holy Quran, there had been substantial effort to produce an accurate Quran text, but due to some difficulties (some of which are listed below), these efforts were unsuccessful in many of the cases, and unfortunately, | ||
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- | These erroneous Quran texts were so rapidly spread over the Internet that finding the correct form of Quranic verses had became almost impossible without referring to a verified printed manuscript. For example, in late 2007, when we were searching Google for the verse 38 of Sura Al-Qalam which is '' | + | These erroneous Quran texts were so rapidly spread over the Internet that finding the correct form of Quranic verses had became almost impossible without referring to a verified printed manuscript. For example, when we were searching Google |
This terrible situation made us to launch the Tanzil project to produce a highly verified error-free Quran text, and make this text available to the Quranic websites and applications to prevent further spreading of the erroneous Quran texts. | This terrible situation made us to launch the Tanzil project to produce a highly verified error-free Quran text, and make this text available to the Quranic websites and applications to prevent further spreading of the erroneous Quran texts. | ||
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* **Technical Difficulties** \\ Old Arabic character sets used in Quranic web-pages and applications lacked some essential diacritics and symbols. For example, the widely used Arabic encoding called " | * **Technical Difficulties** \\ Old Arabic character sets used in Quranic web-pages and applications lacked some essential diacritics and symbols. For example, the widely used Arabic encoding called " | ||
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+ | Some instances of typos in existing digital copies of Quran are listed [[http:// | ||
===== How precise is Tanzil Quran text? ===== | ===== How precise is Tanzil Quran text? ===== | ||
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Our Quran text is now used in major Quranic [[Who is using Tanzil? | Our Quran text is now used in major Quranic [[Who is using Tanzil? | ||
The accuracy of the text has been also reconfirmed by several [[Who is using Tanzil? | The accuracy of the text has been also reconfirmed by several [[Who is using Tanzil? | ||
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- | ===== Do you need to replace your text? ===== | ||
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- | To see if the copy of the Quran text you have obtained from another resource is erroneous, simply do the following checks: | ||
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- | - If your text has some of the typos listed [[http:// | ||
- | - If your text has one of the typos or missing diacritics [[http:// | ||
- | - If your text doesn' | ||
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- | You can download Tanzil Quran texts from our [[http:// | ||
===== Who is using Tanzil? ===== | ===== Who is using Tanzil? ===== | ||
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===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
- | * [[Credits]] | + | * [[http:// |
- | * [[Resources]] | + | |
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[Credits]] | ||