This is the Qur'an in Arabic, presented using Unicode.
The Unicode Arabic is displayed in parallel
with a transliteration into modified International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).
The IPA transliteration is not a
pronunciation guide.
Rather, it is a mechanical conversion of the Arabic, letter by letter,
into equivalent IPA characters.
Alef is transliterated by a single quote; double letters are indicated by
a following colon (:), some Arabic letters do
not have any equivalent in the transliteration.
The system used is documented in the
Transliteration table.
Note that since the transliteration is not exactly one-to-one, the Arabic
text should be treated as primary, and the transliteration
as a study aid.
The file titles, which do not have any vowels in them, are also
transliterated automatically using the same system.
If you have problems viewing the Unicode Arabic, please refer to
the Sacred-texts Unicode page.
Note that not all Unicode fonts will display this text completely.
We have found that Code 2000 displays some of the Arabic characters as
boxes: the Microsoft Arial Unicode MS font, on the other hand,
seems to be able to display all of the characters used in this text.
Since Unicode support for Arabic is still evolving, we also
have a version of the Quran in Arabic
which uses GIF files to display the Arabic text.