Critical 3rd Party Islamic Projects Pending since Years

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Following are some projects that are pending since long and are very critical and important.

Pending since 2011
1. Qur'anic Arabic Corpus by Dr Kais Dukes. (Last update was in May 2011)

2. English Translation of Qawaid Zaban e Qur'an by Khaleel ur Rahman Chisti. (English version still not released despite its incomplete draft being seen in 2011)

Possible solutions:
1. Convince them to:
a. Resume the project themselves.
a. Lead and participate in the project with others.
b. Coordinate in the project and provide consultancy and let others do the work. 

2. Get the data from them and Launch your own project.

Appendix 1:
Dr Kais Dukes Contact :
https://github.com/kaisdukes?tab=activity
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kaisdukes

Khaleel ur Rahman Chisti Contact: 
http://chishtis.com/
https://www.facebook.com/chishti.khaleel/

Appendix 2
Some posts on these tools on this blog: 
Qur'anic Arabic Corpus
Quranic Arabic Corpus - Word by Word, Syntactic Treebank and Translations - 3 in 1 QAC Navigator .

Arabic Roots Quick Study Tool - Access any root page directly on Arabic Almanac, Qur'anic Arabic Corpus, Baheth and others .

Qur'anic Arabic Corpus - Arabic Treebank by Dr. Kais Dukes .

Qur'an Ayat Navigator 5 Access Tanzil, Tafeem ul Qur'an, Asad, Yusuf Ali, Qur'anic Arabic Corpus and many translations . 

Identifying the Root for An Arabic Word 1 .

Qawaid e Zaban e Qur'an
Qawaid e Zaban e Qur’an قواعد زبان قرآن detailed arabic grammar book in Urdu with embedded Quick Study Tool + 3 English Translation Options Introduced!

Qur'an Ayat Navigator 3 with embedded Quick Study Spreadsheet Tool

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Study any Ayat of The Qur’an in various Qur’an translations & some related books using below quick study embedded spreadsheet tool tool
Images of Arabic Text of each Ayat of The Qur'an
Recitation Ayat by Ayat for each Ayat of The Qur'an
Tanzil Navigator Ayat by Ayat with many translations (but each translation has to be chosen 1 by 1)
Tafheem ul Qur'an by Maududi in English Ayat by Ayat
Asad Ali translation and Yusuf Ali translation with footnotes along with 2 other translations
Qur'anic Arabic Corpus: Translation, Word by Word, Syntactic Treebank (partial)
Multiple translations together for each Ayat

Online method to Directly access any Ayat in the Qur'an Ayat Navigator 3
1. Wait till the embedded sheet is loaded. Depending on your internet speed, this may take a minute or more. While the embedded sheet is being loaded, you can check the sequence of columns for each book mentioned in this post i.e. top book is on left most column of sheet and then next one to the right and so on for all listed books or sets.
2. Press ctrl and f keys of keyboard together, this opens search box at the top in the browser.
3. Enter the Ayat you want to study e.g. enter 114.006 in the search box and press Enter key.
4. This takes you to the Ayat in The Qur'an Ayat Navigator 3.
5. Then study the Ayat in The Qur'an Ayat Navigator 3 books by clicking the links given with the Ayat.
6. After reading the Ayat in the books you want to study, search for the next Ayat using the above method.

Qur'an Ayat Navigator 3 PDF Download [31.1 MB]

Below is the embedded quick study spreadsheet tool for Qur'an Ayat Navigator 3

Qur'an Ayat Navigator 5 Access Tanzil, Tafeem ul Qur'an, Asad, Yusuf Ali, Qur'anic Arabic Corpus, Qur'an Wikipedia, Ayat by Ayat recitations, and many more translations

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Qur'an Ayat Navigator 5 (New addition on 8-December-2017)
Quickly view any Ayat of The Qur'an and study it in Tanzil Navigator, Tafheem ul Qur'an, Asad Translation, Yusuf Ali Translation, in many translations together, Qur'anic Arabic Corpus, Word for Word Column view, Laleh Bakhtiar translation, Pikthal translation, Qur'an Wikipedia, recitation Ayah by Ayah, Bayan ul Qur'an Ayah by Ayah by Dr Israr Ahmed and more.
Note: If you want any recommended Tafsir or Translation of The Qur'an added and it is available Ayat by Ayat, email me at revivearabic @ gmail.com to have it included here.
Also check other Qur'an Ayat Navigators, specially Qur'an Ayat Navigator 2 on:
https://revivearabic.blogspot.com/2015/01/quran-quick-study-tools-ayat-surah-root-word.html

Enter Surah Number

Enter Ayat Number



Recite Qur'an with Tajweed format text link is link comes here

Tanzil Navigator link is link comes here

Tafheem ul Qur'an link is link comes here (Link is dead. When alternate source is found, this note will be removed inshaALLAH!)

Muhammad Asad and Yusuf Ali Translations link is link comes here

Many Translations together link is link comes here

Multiple Translations together Quran.com link is link comes here

Qur'anic Arabic Corpus Translations link is link comes here

Qur'anic Arabic Corpus Word for Word link is link comes here

Qur'anic Arabic Corpus Syntactic Treebank (only available for Surahs 1 to 8 and 59 onwards) link is link comes here

Qur'anic Morphology, Sub-Word by Sub-Word link is link comes here

Tafsir.app Irab Graphs (only available for Surahs 1 to 9 and 59 onwards) link is link comes here

IslamAwakened Word for Word column view link is link comes here

Laleh Bakhtiar Translation link is link comes here

Marmaduke Pikthal Translation link is link comes here

Muhammad Asad Translation link is link comes here

Abdullah Yusuf Ali Translation link is link comes here

Muhammad Taqi Uthmani Translation link is link comes here

Muhammad Tahir ul Qadri Translation link is link comes here

Kanz ul Iman Urdu and English Translation link is link comes here

Urdu: Bayan ul Qur'an Ayah by Ayah Audio by Dr Israr Ahmed link is link comes here

Urdu: Amin Ahsan Islahi and Javed Ahmed Ghamidi link is link comes here

Urdu: Mufti Muhammad Saeed Khan Partial Audio Tafsir (Only available till Surah 27) link is link comes here

Qur'an Wikipedia link is link comes here

Tafsir io, scholars embedded videos Ayat link is link comes here

Qur'anic Arabic Corpus - Arabic Treebank by Dr. Kais Dukes

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The Qur'anic Arabic Corpus http://corpus.quran.com as per word of Dr Kais Dukes in 2014 end was being used by over 5 million people a year from 165 different countries. Below map was also taken from his under construction version 0.5 i.e. www.arabictreebank.org which is no longer available and has been taken down by Dr. Kais Dukes.

World map of users of the Qur'anic Arabic Corpus, provided by Google Analytics. Countries with the highest number of users are shaded in darker blue.

In 2014 end, various suggestions from me were under discussion with Dr. Kais Dukes. The green ones had been implemented on www.arabictreebank.org which hosted the under construction version 0.5, unfortunately the site is no longer accessible.

Below I list them again with slight modifications in some, so that whenever the work is restarted on version 0.5, any volunteer can try to get these suggestions implemented.

1. Link all roots in Qur'anic Arabic Corpus to Arabic Almanac also.  
http://ejtaal.net/aa/#bwq=
root in buckwalter English equivalent letters:
A b t v j H x d * r z s $ S D T Z E g f q k l m n h w y
ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي

2. Add relevant images for Al Airaab ul Mufassal by Salih with every Ayat page
https://archive.org/details/ErabMufassal

3. Add relevant images for I'raab ul Qur'an il Kareem by Dr Mahmood Sulayman Yaqoot
This book gives word by word syntactical analysis
https://archive.org/details/waq110411

4. Add images for Madinah Mushaf with tajweed coloring with every Ayat page.
https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=70F882FE8CA92D5E&id=70F882FE8CA92D5E!899
Suggested location: a joint page containing Recitation, embedded images, and translations. 

5. Add Patterns data for Lemmas in 1st stage and in 2nd stage for individual words. 
Use patterns data from https://revivearabic.blogspot.com/2015/09/quran-concordance-roots-patterns-letters-synonyms.html . As 1st stage a Beta lemma table can be created by copying all the patterns data from there. As a 1st stage 2 lemma tables can be added, 1 original already added and 2nd based on concordance data presented as beta test version only. Then it can be evaluated further before replacing original lemmas table.
Note: For broken plural patterns, singular pattern must also be identified, and pattern for singular also written, as already done in above concordance documents . Sorting should also be according to singular since same broken plural pattern can come for multiple possible singular patterns. 

6. Add quick navigation boxes:
i. For Aayaat. 
ii. For words (by also enabling quick navigation box for Aayaat to go to detailed page for a word, e.g. inputting 1.1.1 or 1:1:1 should take to detailed page of 1:1:1) 
iii. For Roots. Search quickly in box using buckwalter equivalent English letters or Arabic letters. To search root of furqan on any page of corpus, just type frq in the root box and go to dictionary immediately from any page of corpus.

7. Allow showing of complete Qur'anic Aayaat in Qur'an Dictionary in Arabic.

8. Add particles data. Site should allow to see all instances and concordance of all particles including 1 letter particles. Particles that are composed of sub-particles should show sub-particles data also. Like words are broken down to roots and patterns, some particles can be broken down to sub-particles.

9. Add all proper nouns in Dictionary. 

10. Add 4th column Root and Pattern in word by word.

11. For morphological search, also add other search possibilities after studying tables given in Statistical Parsing by Machine Learning from a Classical Arabic Treebank and also add patterns based search. Allow Arabic input also in addition to Buckwalter. 

12. Add roots column in lemmas table and give sort by root option in lemmas. In verbs table, give sort by verb forms option.

13. Check any missing lemmas and prefixes and suffixes from dictionary and add them after preparing spreadsheet of any missed words or particles. 

14. Check lemmas with suffixes as some splits of segments and suffixes are causing problems specially with tashdeed. e.g. http://arabictreebank.org/word?id=12:56:2

15. Treebank automatic rules should have exception rules in cases where editor or expert feels that computer suggestion is wrong due to an exceptional case. He should be able to overwrite computer rules in such cases and such cases may be highlighted for future review by other experts. 

16. With Syntactic Treebank Arabic Terms also add English Terms.

Long Term Ideas and Suggestions dependent on 2ndry tool development.
1. Link each Ayat to following quick and detailed study tools after preparing:
Qur'anic Tafaaseer and studies tool :
 
Similar to Arabic Almanac :
1. Containing page images for all books
2. With index named according to last Ayat being covered on each page image.  Named like 001.001 meaning Surah 1, Ayat 1.
3. Search like 001.002, 104.001, 002.200 etc. and all books to be added in images format like Arabic Almanac.
4. Each Ayat can then be linked directly from Qur'anic Arabic Corpus and other study sites. 

i. Arabic to Arabic only tool:
An Arabic Tool having all important books dealing with Qur'anic Morphology, Qur'anic Syntax, Qur'an Tafsir and other Qur'anic Studies areas, all of which can be studied instantly and together just by inputting Surah number and Ayat number and as a result displaying the relevant pages from all these books together for that,  like Arabic Almanac.

ii.  Other languages tool:
i. A Word for Word Meanining of The Qur'an by Muhammad Mohar Ali
ii. Urdu: Anwar ul Bayan fi Hal Lughat ul Qur'an by Ali Muhammad
iii. Tafsir al Qurtuby Urdu Translation
iv. In the shade of The Qur'an by Sayyid Qutb
v. Tafheem ul Qur'an English by Maududi
vi. Maariful Qur'an
vii.  Tafsir ibn e  Kathir

Qur'an Ayat Navigator PDFs help in achieving some of the Qur'anic Tafaaseer and studies tool targets, but tools like Arabic Almanac are best option.

Appendix 1:
Dr. Kais Dukes has recently co-founded Hiper Fabric and his latest public activities can be tracked using:
https://github.com/kaisdukes?tab=activity
his web address and email address can also be found from above link. 
I recommend as many people as possible to contact him and suggest him to resume work on Qur'anic Arabic Corpus.
His Google scholar citations page,  his linked in page

Appendix 2:
In case Dr. Kais Dukes somehow can't update the site himself, I suggested plan B  i.e. a funded project in which full time experts are hired and paid via visitor donations. These experts can work full time on the project and complete, verify and expand its scope. Project can be completed easily this way within a year.
1. Discuss with potential experts and estimate cost. 3 to 5 experts can be dedicated including Dr. Kais Dukes himself or 1 expert programmer and 2 to 4 Classical Arabic experts or even more.
2. Set a donation target on home page of Qur'anic Arabic Corpus. Track it in percentage and total cost, received amount and remaining amount. Give donation options on home page of Qur'anic Arabic Corpus. Better add a widget displayed at top of every page for donation like Wikipedia and Archive.
3. Hire the experts full time for a set work target and time.
4. Once donations start being received, start work using full time experts in parallel.
5. Discuss ideas and suggestions and implement the useful ones in next version.
6. Extend the funding method to implement other useful projects for mass benefit of Islam and Muslims. 

Dr. Kais Dukes can discuss with others and improve it further. Project should be completed within a year. Last update i.e. version 0.4 was released on 1 May 2011.

For any updates till work is resumed on current plan or plan B, you may contact Dr. Kais Dukes directly .

Appendix 3:
Keep checking tweets on https://twitter.com/asimiqbal2nd for updates on QAC related issues.

Appendix 4:

User Guide to provide guide for new volunteers and annotators to understand how they can help improve Qur'anic Arabic Corpus.

1. For now volunteers should download Dr Kais Dukes PHD Thesis :
Statistical Parsing by Machine Learning from a Classical Arabic Treebank
and specially study Chapters 3, 5 and 6 in detail.
Read his thesis online:

2. Study and keep the following important tables as reference:
i. PDF page number 107, printed page number 88: Part-of-speech tags for Classical Arabic

ii. PDF page number 117, printed page number 98 : Morphological feature tags for Classical Arabic

iii. PDF page number 119, printed page number 100: Morphological segmentation rules for Classical Arabic

iv. PDF page number 142, printed page number 123 : Dependency relations for Classical Arabic

v. PDF page number 145, printed page number 126

vi. PDF page number 154, printed page number 135

3. Study Buckwalter Extended Transliteration:
http://corpus.quran.com/java/buckwalter.jsp

Quickly Studying any Qur'anic Root, its Derived Words and Concordance in Qur'anic Arabic Corpus

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To quickly access and study a Qur'anic root along with its derived words and their concordance on Qur'anic Arabic Corpus directly and quickly. Visit below link:
http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=wqy

Write English equivalent of any root you want to study in yellow highlighted portion of browser and press Enter to directly go to the page on Qur'anic Arabic Corpus Dictionary regarding that root giving concordance data for the root along with derived words from the root used in The Qur'an.

See below image giving conversion letters i.e. learn which letter you have to type in English for corresponding Arabic letter. Type the letters without any spaces in between e.g. to study root و ق ي along with all its derived words and their concordance on Qur'anic Arabic Corpus, type wqy , to study ع ص م type ESm and press Enter.

Screenshot from Qur'anic Arabic Corpus site:

If you can't find a root i.e. the word you are trying to study has a different root assigned to it on the site, following 2 methods can be used: 

Method 1:

i. Instead of entire root, type only 1st letter of root

http://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=w

ii. Click the arrow button to open down menu and select the root or word you want to study along with all its occurrences. 

iii. Click Go.

Method 2:

1. If you know the Surah and Ayat number in which the word is used, you can find out the root using below post instructions. 

Identifying the Root for An Arabic Word 1

2. Then use the direct method of pasting entire root equivalent in browser as discussed at the top of this post.

Quickly access and study any Qur'anic Ayat Word by Word in Qur'anic Arabic Corpus

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Using below link you can quickly reach the page of any Qur'anic Ayat for Word by Word Analysis given in Qur'anic Arabic Corpus
http://corpus.quran.com/wordbyword.jsp?chapter=3&verse=7
To see and study word by word analysis of any Ayat in Qur'anic Arabic Corpus Word by Word, just edit the above yellow highlighted portions. For Surah, edit 3 and enter any number from 1 to 114 for the Surah you want to study. For Ayat, edit 7 and enter any Ayat number you want to study for that Surah and press Enter to study the Word by Word Analysis of that Ayat.

Also see Identifying The Root for an Arabic Word 1 to see further steps when on an Ayat to study any word in further detail

Note: Verification of Qur'anic Arabic Corpus is not yet complete, so use with additional verification.

Appendix:
Suggest any improvement in Qur'anic Arabic Corpus using the messageboard .
This page is for Qur'an Dictionary on Qur'anic Arabic Corpus.