Assalamu Alaykum (peace be upon you),
Welcome to IslamiTexts.org, the replacement site for SearchQuran.org.
There is no doubt that SearchQuran.org has had a far more successful journey than what I had anticipated. There are more than 20,000 hits every month, and the number is increasing. This is despite the fact that the website has been in beta and, due to lack of resources, not much progress could be made.
Over time, it became clearer to me that we need something more than simply a Quran search system. We need a system that can help us conduct research across all Islamic texts. This includes Quran, hadith, fiqh, various commentaries and other scriptures. We need a way to find relevant passages across all sources for a given topic or issue. This is what IslamiTexts aims to achieve.
Welcome to IslamiTexts.org. Please provide us with feedback so we can continue to improve our site.
Best wishes!
Is there a way to have the same search system and quran translations up. It is very useful to my studies.
Assalamu alaykum Imtiaz,
Thank you for your message. Islamitexts is a much more enhanced version of the same system. The search is better than the previous system, while it offers additional capabilities on deep studying of an individual verse. For example, if you were to search for the word “magic”, the previous engine would only search and display the results, while in this one you can select the verse and look at the commentary and all translations simultaneously.
There are many other newer features that I will write about in my future posts.
If there is a piece of functionality that you saw in the previous system and cannot find in the new one, please do let us know so that we can address it.
Thank you.