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The Quran,in numbers.

Quran Insights counts every word of the Quran and explains what it finds, in plain words. Check famous claims like «the word day appears 365 times» against the text itself, look up any word, and read the whole mushaf.

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Surahs
114
Verses
6,236
Words
77,429
Roots
1,651

One point, one verse

6,236 points of light.

Each point is one verse, gathered with the rest of its surah.

MeccanMedinan

Hover a point to see its verse; click to read it.

114 surahs

Longest first, shortest last.

Stand each surah up as a column of its verses, in mushaf order.

Mecca and Medina

Medinan verses run almost twice as long.

Now spread every verse by its word count.

MeccanMedinan

From words to roots

77,429 words grow from 1,651 roots.

Arabic builds words from roots.

Words in the text77,429
Distinct written forms14,710
Words, counting all forms of a word as one4,771
Roots1,651

One root, many words

كتب
  • كِتَابkitābbook
  • كَتَبَkatabahe wrote
  • كَاتِبkātibwriter
  • مَكْتُوبmaktūbwritten

8,619 written forms occur only once.

The 60 most-used roots

A sky of roots.

Each circle is one root, sized by how often words from that root occur.

Hover a circle to see its root.

Claims

Famous claims, audited.

Every famous word-count claim, checked against the real corpus.

Yawm, day

One for every day of the year?

Yawm is famously said to appear 365 times.

Hover a point to see its verse.

Angels and devils

88 and 88. The scale balances.

A famous pairing.

Hover a point to see its verse.

Jesus and Adam

25 and 25. The scale balances.

«The likeness of Jesus with God is as the likeness of Adam» (3:59).

Hover a point to see its verse.

The Name

2,699 points of light.

The name Allah is often said to appear 2,806 times.

Hover a point to see its verse.

All eleven claims

Every claim, card by card.

Our count matches the claim exactly The pair is equal: both words come equally often Differs, or depends on how you count
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Machine learning

A model can tell Mecca from Medina.

A computer model reads nothing but how often each word is used.

Closest in vocabulary

Linked by their words alone.

Each surah is linked to the five whose words are closest.

MeccanMedinan

Hover a point to see its verse; click to read it.

85.1%accuracy
  • 75.4% if it always guessed Meccan
  • a score of 0.92 out of 1

All 114 surahs, as the model sees them

  • Meccan, right
  • Medinan, caught
  • Medinan, missed

It never mislabels a Meccan surah.

Words that pull toward Medinan

    Words that pull toward Meccan

      Model weights, strongest first.

      What is inside

      Built like an instrument,
      not a brochure.

      Every number on this site is counted live from the Quran's text in your browser and checked by automatic tests.

      Mecca and Medina, tested

      Is the gap real, and can a computer tell them apart?

      Word Search

      Look up any word by its exact spelling, in all its forms, or by its root letters.

      Reader

      The full mushaf, verse by verse.

      بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
      1:1

      Knowledge graph

      439 nodes and 929 edges.

      Stories, lessons and du'as

      The prophets' stories, lessons for daily life and the Quran's du'as, each linked to its verses.

      Fully bilingual

      One tap flips the entire app into Arabic.

      The first word revealed, 96:1

      It began with one word.

      Iqra: read.

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