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Welcome to Qur’an Gateway! This article will serve as a state-of-the-platform report, to answer questions and let you know what you can expect in the coming days.

At Qurʾan Gateway, we remain engaged in a continual effort to improve its content and value to our users, to improve how our site operates, and to make our site easier and more intuitive to use. Seven recent additions to our site make it more useful to all our users on four continents. Here is a brief summary of recent improvements you’ll see at to help improve your understanding of the Qurʾan:

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The most widely accepted qurʾanic text as we know it today, ultimately stems from the 1924 print published in Cairo, colloquially known as the Cairo Edition. Today’s widely distributed Medina Mushaf of the King Fahd Complex owes its orthography for a large part to the Cairo Edition. This print has become the de facto standard and it is this text that the Qurʾan Gateway uses, as well as popular websites such as mushafmuscat.om, tanzil.net, and quran.com.

Time is precious, isn’t it? Oh, some who work in the fast-paced world of modern business might look over the fence at the academic world and think to themselves, “I wish I could live that quiet life of a scholar, pursuing what interests me at whatever pace seems reasonable.” But time is precious for scholars, too.

As a newly matriculated student at Oxford in 2011, the idea of learning Arabic seemed daunting. Despite the fact that I had acquired other research languages before beginning my master’s programme, Arabic still presented a particularly difficult problem.