In this paper, an online Arabic handwritten words database is presented to be the first online Quranic handwritten words dataset. The dataset was collected naturally using Acer computer tablet 1.5 GHz core i3 by writing the words on a smooth touch screen using a special pen stylus. Here, a platform interface was designed to collect the handwritten words using Matlab environment. Handwritten wor...

Objective To examine the association between Quran memorization and health among older men. Methods This cross-sectional study included older Saudi men (age ≥ 55 years) from Buraidah, Al-Qassim. The neighborhoods were selected randomly (20 out of 96); eligible men from the mosques were recruited. Demographics, lifestyle, and depression were assessed with standardized questionnaires; height, w...

The Holy Quran is the biggest Miracle of Muslims everywhere and at every time; therefore, it is valid for every time and place. Actually, researches and studies into the Holy Quran that aim to uncover new miracles within are considered as a kind of worship for Muslims researchers since it facilitates the Islamic mission and clarifies the vague picture of Islam throughout the world. From this pe...

In recent years, there has been a global growing demand for Islamic knowledge by both Muslims and non-Muslims. This has brought about a number of automated applications that ease the retrieval of knowledge from the Holy Book, being the major source of Knowledge in Islam. However, the current retrieval methods in the Quranic domain lack adequate semantic search capabilities; they are mostly base...

Arabic language is the most spoken languages in the Semitic languages group, and one of the most common languages in the world spoken by more than 422 million. It is also of paramount importance to Muslims, it is a sacred language of the Islamic Holly Book (Quran) and prayer (and other acts of worship) in Islam is performed only by mastering some of Arabic words. Arabic is also a major ritual l...

Recently, there has been a great interest in Islamic software that try to harness computer to serve the religion. This brought about some applications and programs for the Holy Quran and its sciences, Hadith " ثيدحلا" (Prophet’s Tradition) and its methodology, Fiqh "ه قفلا" (Islamic jurisdiction), and Islamic law in general. However, these computer-programs, especially those developed for the s...

There are billions of believers of various religions in the world and Islam is the second largest religion having 1.6 billion followers. The primary written sources of religious beliefs and practices of Muslims are the Quran and the Hadith (saying and practices of their prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him). Written text of the Quran and the Hadith books is of manageable size and hence state of t...

In this paper we describe the Semantic Quran dataset, a multilingual RDF representation of translations of the Quran. The dataset was created by integrating data from two different semi-structured sources and aligned to an ontology designed to represent multilingual data from sources with a hierarchical structure. The resulting RDF data encompasses 43 different languages which belong to the mos...