Sunday 2 May 2021

Concordance Labeling of Qur'anic Words and Aayaat for Comprehensive Online Study and Learning Tool for all

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Above image has 2 subparts, but in some words, there are as many as 5 subparts as in below example
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Below, I give a few more samples for the practical tool:
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The basic unit of work could be 1 page of Madinah Mushaf. There are a total of 604 pages in The Madinah Mushaf. Based on this, a suitable cost can be decided per page. Then the total cost of the project can be easily estimated. Total cost of the project = Cost per page x 604. Even if 5 pages are done per week, the project can be done within 121 weeks, i.e. 2 years 4 months and 1 week. If more manpower is deployed, e.g. by allotting different pages to different persons or by splitting the type of labels to be filled on each page by 2 persons based on their expertise level, the speed of the project can be increased further. Here is a sample page of the 604 page Madinah Mushaf. Page is taken from Qur'an Complex

Madinah Mushaf sample page

A better idea is to start from there where the need is most. Exhaustive Morphology data is not available in existing books. This means, 1st step should be to focus on Morphology. Below screenshot explains this suggested idea of assigning roots, patterns, verb forms etc., along with morphology notes. This work requires experience and I am available to offer my services for this step, though I an available for remaining steps also, but I prefer this step since this is unique work in an area where I have done a big project already i.e. Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains, while remaining steps are some form of data gathering, copying, refining and addition with due quality assurance. 
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2nd step should be to assign role and sub-role to particles and related words. Though this data is available in 1 book Mu'jam Huroof il Ma'ani fil Qur'an il Kareem. More books can be consulted and these should be applied on all particles and related words used in The Qur'an.  

3rd step should be to exhaustively check all I'rab ul Qur'an Books and devise an efficient way on how to copy the grammatical and syntax information Word by Word after choosing most optimum books for this purpose. 

I am available to offer my services for labeling all the pages of The Qur'an, specially on my areas of experience from my past project i.e. Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains , namely : Sub-part #, Sub-Word / Sub-Part, Base Word / Base-Part, Root , Base Pattern, Word Pattern and Base Verb Form. I can also work on Role, Sub-role, Verb Mode, Verb Specification, Case, Reason for Case, Contextual Role, Grammar Notes, Other Notes etc., but these can be done by anyone with basic knowledge of Arabic and ability to consult reference books quickly. So I prefer to assign labels for the 1st set of labels, but am available to assign remaining labels also inshaALLAH!  

For Every Word used in The Qur'an, assign a Word Level Labeling with labels for :
Root
Word Pattern
Base Pattern (for forms like broken plurals etc. for which identifying pattern of base form is more important)
Case (marfoo', mansoob, majroor, majzoom etc.)
Reason for Case e.g. Haal, maf'ool etc.
Contextual Role (e.g. Mudaaf)
Role (for particles etc.)
Sub-role (for particles etc.)
Verb Form (for verbs).
Miscellaneous Grammar details for each word

Apply these labels or even more to all The Words used in The Qur'an. This is Word level labeling.

What has been done so far on some sites: Roots have been assigned to Words by some sites, and Aayaat concordance is available based on roots and words. What is required is:

Rechecking of roots assignment in detail. This can be consulted using Qur'an Roots Linker 2019 PDF available on Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains

Assigning : Base Pattern, Word Pattern, Case, Reason for Case, Contextual Role : to each Word. Assigning verb form to all verbs. Assigning role and sub-role to particles and some nouns for which role and sub-role is to be assigned instead of root and pattern.

Base Pattern, Word Pattern, Verb Form (for verbs, including the 6 types for Form I) can be assigned using already done research of Qur'an Patterns Concordance PDF available on Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains. This can be reverified and also some more word patterns can be split with same base pattern but different word pattern based on the direction indicated by Research on different forms of writing the same word available on Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains e.g. The Word مِهَاد is used while referring to Hell and The Word مِهَـٰد is used while referring to Earth. Both are used in The Qur'an. We can assign base pattern of فِعَال to both, but individual word pattern of فِعَال and فِعَـٰل to each respectively.

For assigning roles and sub-roles to particles, and nouns which are to be assigned roles and sub-roles instead of root and pattern, the book Mu'jam Huroof il Ma'ani fil Qur'an il Kareem available and linked up in Arabic Particles Quick Study PDF and posted on Arabic Particles Quick Study Tool can be used as a starting point and then efforts can be made to verify it and also consult other books for any particles not covered by it.

For assigning : case, reason for case, contextual role, relevant grammar concepts, and other grammatical details like gender, number, kind etc. and for verbs : imperative case, perfect, imperfect, and also moods etc., Qur'an Ayat Navigators can be consulted to check multiple إعراب القرآن and تفاسير in parallel for each Word.

Some sites display all relevant Aayaat based on roots and sub-arranged based on words from the same root. What is required is 3 types of concordance quotation of all relevant Aayaat together.

Roots based concordance listing of all relevant Aayaat together, which has to be further split based on base words and base words can be further split based on case and then the relevant Aayaat can be quoted together based on case, base word and root, with a different color coding for each Word. This is found to some extent on some sites like Qur'anic Arabic Corpus and books like Mu'jam ul Mufahras ush Shamil li Alfaz il Qur'an il Kareem bir Rasm il Uthmani, but base words have to be sorted in a better way, and case should also be kept in focus while sorting the Aayaat for concordance display and complete Aayat should be displayed instead of short collection of Words from each Aayah.

Patterns based concordance listing of all relevant patterns together. These should be sub-sorted based on root and case, i.e. for the same pattern from the same root, sub-arrange based on case. Once all occurrences from a root are completed, list the next root's occurrences for the same pattern, sub-sorted, based on case. Use different color coding for the Word form the pattern, while displaying all the relevant Aayaat together. This is a new idea of Aayaat concordance based on patterns, not attempted in any book or site so far but a base has been published in the form of Qur'an Patterns Concordance PDF available on Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains using which this concordance listing can be attempted and accomplished inshaALLAH!. Moreover, as mentioned earlier, complete Aayaat should be quoted instead of collection of Words from each Aayah.

Role and sub-role based concordance for particles and some nouns. These are to be sorted based on particle, and then role and then sub-role. This concordance listing is available to some extent in the book Mu'jam Huroof il Ma'ani fil Qur'an il Kareem available on Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains and this book can be used as a starting point, but it has to be verified and improved and expanded to more particles along with color coding for the particle. Moreover, as mentioned earlier, complete Aayaat should be quoted instead of collection of Words from each Aayah.


Now come to Aayaat level labeling of Grammatical Rules and Concepts
In this case, set of Words should be labeled together, like Murakkabi Idaafy or Jumla Haaliya etc. and labeling should start from smallest subset and then labeling of larger subset of which the smaller subset is also a part.

For relationship between Words, Syntactic Treebank or an improved form of it may be introduced. Idea can be taken from Qur'anic Arabic Corpus.

Once all the labeling has been done, the website should make a list of all labels, clicking which user can go to study the label in detail via display of all The Aayaat (with complete Aayah display) of The Qur'an with Words from that label highlighted in different color. Moreover, this should also be available in reverse, i.e. while studying any Aayah, user can click the Word and he should be able to see all the available labels for the Word and also the labels for the Grammatical Concepts in which the Word has been used, and once clicked, he should be shown all the Aayaat in which the label has been used with different color for the Word or Word Set, e.g. root should show all Aayaat in which Words from the root have been used, patterns should show all the Aayaat in which that pattern has been used and so on for other labels.

Qur'an Concordance - Roots - Patterns - Letters - Word Sets - Word Domains