Islam · Library
A research library · اسلامی کتب خانہ
The Islamic Library
Qur'an, tafsir, hadith, seerah and history, and the personalities of Islam — gathered as one research collection. Multi-tradition and metadata-first: classical public-domain works are rendered in full; copyrighted works are catalogued and linked to their source. Every claim is traceable; where Sunni and Shia traditions differ, the positions are presented, never adjudicated.
القرآن الكریم
Qur'an
The full text with surah/ayah structure and translation, linked to tafsir.
114 surahs →التفسیر
Tafsir
Commentaries by ayah — classical works rendered in full, modern works catalogued and linked.
121 editions · 6 rendered in full →الحدیث
Hadith
Major collections with Arabic, translation and reference, fully searchable.
15 collections · 77,791 hadith →السیرۃ والتاریخ
Seerah & History
The classical historians — sira, conquests, and universal chronicles, read on-site.
8 works readable →شخصیاتِ اسلام
Personalities
Companions, caliphs, Ahl al-Bayt, imams, scholars and narrators — each a research hub of everything we host about them.
141 figures · 12 deep Urdu biographies →الکتب
Books
Classical and modern Islamic books across the eleven sciences — metadata-first, with source and copyright status on every entry.
Catalogue · filter by subject & tradition →الموضوعات
Topics
Thematic hubs — Tawhid, the Caliphate, Ahl al-Bayt, Fiqh, Sufism — connecting the books and personalities we host.
Cross-linked topic hubs →
Browse by subject
The classical Islamic sciences. Subjects with a hosted collection open it directly; the rest grow as the catalogue fills (metadata-first).
Sources & transparency
Where our content comes from, and why some works are full-text while others are catalogue-and-link. We never host copyrighted full text without a clear licence, and we never fabricate.
| Source | Content | Licence | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzil / King Fahd Complex ↗Verified Uthmani Qur'an text; public domain. Basis for our Qur'an reader. | quran | Public domain | Full text hosted |
| quran.com API / fawazahmed0 quran-api ↗Qur'an + translations. Classical translations public domain; some modern translations are restricted — verified per edition before rendering. | quran | Mixed — verified per item | Full text hosted |
| spa5k tafsir_api ↗Tafsir by ayah. Classical works (Ibn Kathir, Tabari, Baghawi) rendered in full; modern-authored tafsir under copyright are catalogued + linked only. | tafsir | Mixed — verified per item | Full text hosted |
| fawazahmed0 hadith-api ↗Public-domain hadith collections (Ar/En). Basis for our 77k-hadith corpus across 15 collections. | hadith | Public domain | Full text hosted |
| Sunnah.com ↗Excellent grading + isnad metadata, but redistribution is restricted. Used for cross-reference/verification only — not bulk-hosted. | hadith | Restricted | Metadata + link |
| OpenITI / al-Maktaba al-Shamela ↗Large classical Arabic corpus. Public-domain titles rendered on-site (Ibn Hisham, Tabari, Ibn Sa'd, …); uncertain-status titles catalogued only. | books, tafsir, hadith | Mixed — verified per item | Full text hosted |
| Hindawi Foundation ↗Arabic history/literature under CC-BY — full text may be hosted with attribution. | books | Open (CC) | Full text hosted |
| Internet Archive ↗Scanned Urdu/Arabic PDFs; copyright varies per item and Nastaliq OCR is unreliable, so we catalogue + link rather than OCR-import. | books | Mixed — verified per item | Metadata + link |
| Wikidata ↗CC0 structured metadata (dates, relations, identifiers) for entity-linking — not narrative content. | personalities, books | Open (CC) | Metadata + link |
| Al-Islam.org ↗Shia texts and biographies; license varies per item — verify before hosting any full text. | books, personalities | Needs verification | Pending verification |