Natural Language Processing Working Together with Arabic and Islamic Studies is a 2-year project funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to study prosodicsyntactic mark-up in the Quran (Atwell et al 2013). Tajwīd or correct Quranic recitation is very important in Islam. The original insight informing this project is to view tajwīd mark-up in the Quran as addi...

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BACKGROUND Desirable health is impossible without good nutrition, and Allah has addressed us on eating foods in 118 verses. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to describe the medical university faculty members' perceptions of nutritional health in the Quran, revealing the important role of faculty members. MATERIALS AND METHODS This qualitative study was conducted with a phenomenological approach....

In this paper, we present our in-progress research tasks for building lexical database of the verb valences in the Arabic Quran using FrameNet frames. We study the verbs in their context in the Quran, and compare that with matching frames and frame evoking verbs in the English FrameNet. We analyze the gaps and make appropriate amendments to the FrameNet by adding new frame elements and relations.

This paper describes the underlying software platform used to develop and publish annotations for the Quranic Arabic Corpus (QAC). The QAC (Dukes, Atwell and Habash, 2011) is a multimodal language resource that integrates deep tagging, interlinear translation, multiple speech recordings, visualization and collaborative analysis for the Classical Arabic language of the Quran. Available online at...