Quran Browser Advanced Home Page

Welcome to the Quran Browser Advanced Home Page

The Quran Browser is a simple but powerful interface designed to help you browse the Holy Quran actively, in a way that is not possible with traditional printed books. Using the Quran Browser, you can look up Quranic passages directly, by keyword, substring, or word pattern. You can also perform phrase searches, execute logical operations on groups of passages, retrieve passages from different versions, and limit in various ways the quantity and range of material retrieved. See the Quran Browser Users' Guide for more details.

Search string(s):

Consider each search string to be:: a passage (e.g., Al-Imran 3:64, Al-Imran 65, 3:64-67); an exact string (e.g., righteous); a substring (e.g., eous); a regular expression (e.g., beaut(y|iful)); raw commands

For multi-word searches, find passages that contain:: all search strings (e.g., good evil, separated by a space; = boolean and); at least one of the search strings (= boolean or ); the first, but not any subsequent, search strings (cf. boolean and not); all search strings together in a phrase (e.g., name of Allah)

Retrieve from which translation:: M. M. Pickthall; Abdullah Yusufali; M. H. Shakir; Maulvi Sher Ali; Rashad Khalifa

Limit quantity/range:: Don't let passage lists exceed; Search only from to

Other options:: For single verses and words, provide additional context; For multi-verse retrievals, reformat text as paragraphs; Neither of the above

Richard L. Goerwitz

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