Talk:Digital Quran

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The Digital Quran is a consumer product genre, similar to the iPod. There are many manufacturers of this device. We have placed links to all notable manufacturer websites. There is no particular bias towards a certain manufacturer. Without mentioning the links the article would be deficient.

Simplyislam (talk) 21:24, 2 September 2008 (UTC)Atif Darr.

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[Article to be completed shortly, products to be mentioned: [iMuslim]http://www.playnetics.com, [Alfurqan iPod]http://www.Alfurqanipod.com and [iPalm Digital Quran]http://www.iPalmdigitalquran.com](I moved this from the bottom of the article). --Woland (talk) 20:49, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

The article should remain aware of the timeline. It seems Quranic desktop software was available from 1990, and online texts began to appear in 2006. This seems significantly timed with the first release of Zekr (software), so it seems that possibly Zekr is the source of all this, and all the quran websites appearing in 2006 copied their text.

It would also be worthwhile to explore "Islamic software" more generally, and even more generally Islamic attitudes towards digital technology, there seems to be an interesting angle of "luddite cognitive dissonance" in using the technology of the satanic society you are sworn to destroy in the more recent jihadist "cyber caliphate" strategies. Not that this is something new, of course, I suppose it's the same as using printed editions of the Quran (edition princeps in the 1530s in Venice?), automatic rifles and plastic explosives used by jihadists, etc. I am sure there are both "primary" discussions of this in fatwas as well as secondary studies in academic literature. --dab (𒁳) 11:37, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

It turns out that English tanslations were online from at least 1997. I imagine it took a few years for Arabic texts to come online because Arabic script support didn't become widespread until the 2000s? But I found a transliteration online back in 2000, at usc.edu. Here is a Muslim site with a translation in 2000. Here is a site with a synoptic edition of English translation alongside transliteration and Arabic scipt rendered as gifs, online in 2000 (muttaqun.com). This may well be the earliest Muslim website with an Arabic etext of the Quran. --dab (𒁳) 12:54, 15 January 2015 (UTC)