Editions
Each edition carries the Uthmani Arabic, and all but one a translation. They are the same files the app ships, shared here under the same licence.
Sources & licences
Every word, credited
The Qur’an text and its translations are copied verbatim from the sources below — never generated, paraphrased, completed or corrected.
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Muhiuddin Khan (Bengali)
Bengali (বাংলা)The Bengali translation by Muhiuddin Khan, the standard rendering in Bangladesh and West Bengal.
- Translator
- Muhiuddin Khan
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Saheeh International
EnglishA widely used contemporary English translation, known for plain modern phrasing and close adherence to the Arabic.
- Translator
- Umm Muhammad (Saheeh International)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Hamidullah (French)
French (Français)Le Saint Coran, the standard French translation by Muhammad Hamidullah, first published in 1959.
- Translator
- Muhammad Hamidullah
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Kuliev (Russian)
Russian (Русский)The Russian translation by Elmir Kuliev, the most widely circulated Russian rendering of the Qur'an.
- Translator
- Elmir Kuliev
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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García (Spanish)
Spanish (Español)El Corán, the Spanish translation by Muhammad Isa García.
- Translator
- Muhammad Isa García
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Maududi (Urdu)
Urdu (اردو)Tafhim al-Qur'an, the Urdu translation and commentary by Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi. Listed here partly because Urdu reads right-to-left: an edition declares its own direction, and the translation is laid out accordingly.
- Translator
- Abul A'la Maududi
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Arabic only (Uthmani)
ArabicThe Arabic text of the mushaf in Uthmani orthography, with no translation. For readers who want the Arabic alone.
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
The editions are adapted from quran-json by Risan Bagja Pradana — the Uthmani text from The Noble Qur’an Encyclopedia, and the translations from Tanzil.net — and are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. If you adapt them further, your versions carry the same licence.
Word by word
Word-by-word glosses: a word-level reading aid for the Arabic, not a translation of the ayah. Every gloss is copied verbatim from the source named below.
Glosses in English, from Quran.com API v4 (Quranic Universal Library); word-by-word glosses derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus . Licence: See Quran.com terms and the Quranic Arabic Corpus licence.
Surah names
Surah names, lengths and their Meccan or Medinan classification follow the standard Kufan numbering of 6,236 ayat. This is reference data, and contains no Qur’an text.
Typefaces
All served from this website, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Noto Naskh Arabic — for the Arabic, as in the app. Licence
- Amiri Quran — for the Arabic when chosen, and surah names. Licence
- Cormorant Garamond — for headings. Licence
- Literata — for translations. Licence
- Inter — for everything else, as in the app. Licence
- Noto Nastaliq Urdu — for the Urdu translation. Licence
- Noto Serif Bengali — for the Bengali translation. Licence
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