ISBN:
Author: Hani Atiyah
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Pages: 288 Binding: Paperback

Description from the publisher:

The feeling that Islamic literature deserves and requires an Islamic classification scheme has been met with a widespread dissatisfaction among information scientists in the Muslim world. However, indexing the classical Quranic exegeses and Hadith collections still requires an initial operation list of subject headings of both the Quran and Hadith texts.

This book is based on an investigation of the terminology in the Quranic text for the purpose of designing a retrieval system. It makes use of conceptual verses and words as partial examples for the required task. These examples are used to test the factors affecting the design at both the documentary and the computation levels. At the documentary level, the examples are used to examine the effects the of Quranic terminology on the commentator and to see how it affects the performance of the retrieval system. Also it examines the characteristics of the Quranic vocabulary, against the problems known to be encountered in constructing an efficient information retrieval system. On the computation level, the examples are used to examine the possibility of the Quran, in its stylistic form, being processed by the computer. As a result, the study offers guidelines and recommendations with two examples for the natural and social science, as a model for constructing a retrieval system for Quranic text.