Where our Quranic content comes from.
Deenscovery builds its Qur'an content on top of open, carefully-maintained academic and community resources. We're grateful to the projects below, and want to be transparent about what we use and how.
Arabic Qur'an Text
The Arabic text shown throughout Deenscovery — every surah and ayah — comes from the Tanzil Project, a widely-used, carefully verified digital Qur'an text.
The text is reproduced exactly as provided by Tanzil and is not altered in wording or spelling.
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
Word Roots & Grammar Reference
When our team writes word-by-word meanings, transliterations, and root letters for each ayah, we use the Quranic Arabic Corpus (created by Kais Dukes) as a reference to check our work against established academic grammatical analysis.
We don't copy or redistribute their dataset — our word-by-word content is written independently by our own team for Deenscovery, using the Corpus to verify accuracy.
License: GNU General Public License
Arabic Tafsir (Commentary)
The Arabic tafsir our team reads while writing each ayah's explanation comes from classical, public-domain scholarly works — currently Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Ibn Kathir, d. 1373), al-Durr al-Manthur (al-Suyuti, d. 1505) and, for ayahs Ibn Kathir does not comment on, Ma'alim al-Tanzil (al-Baghawi, d. 1122).
All three are many centuries old and long in the public domain. We read the original Arabic ourselves and write our own English translations and child-friendly explanations from it — the exact source page used for each ayah is recorded and shown in our admin tools.
License: Public domain (classical works)
English Translation
Each ayah's reference English translation is The Meaning of the Glorious Koran by Marmaduke Pickthall (1930), shown word for word as he wrote it.
The simpler, level-by-level translations children read are written by our own team from the Arabic and the tafsir above — they are not taken from any other published translation.
License: Public domain
Typography we rely on.
Deenscovery also bundles a couple of open-license fonts directly, rather than depending on an outside service to load them.
Scheherazade New
Every piece of Arabic text across the site and in printed worksheets — the Qur'an text itself, root letters, word-by-word Arabic — is set in Scheherazade New, designed by SIL International for accurate, readable Qur'anic typesetting.
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1
Noto Emoji
The small icons next to each word in Rootcovery and Matching activities use Noto Emoji, Google's open-source monochrome emoji font — bundled directly so these render correctly in downloaded/printed worksheet PDFs.
License: SIL Open Font License 1.1
Questions about our sources?
If you have questions about how we use these resources, or notice something that doesn't look right, we'd love to hear from you.
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