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Quran Gallery MCP
Search Islamic library pages and verify citations
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answered our call
- State
- Answered
- Protocol
- MCP 2025-06-18
- Tools listed
- 15
- Answered
- 3 of the last 3 calls
How to reach it
- MCP, HTTP
https://qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela
What it can do
| Tool | What it says it does |
|---|---|
fetch | Read one library page whole by the id `search` returned: main text, then its footnotes under their own label (the editor's words, never the author's), with book, author, printed volume/page, edition data and the link to the page in the Quran Gallery Maktabah reader. Use shamela_read instead to… |
search | Search the whole classical Islamic library (8,594 works, no scope) and get up to 10 pages as {id, title, url}; pass an id to `fetch` to read the page. This is the generic one-argument entry (the standard search/fetch pair); the scoped tools answer research questions better. Use… |
shamela_cite | Citations. mode=citation (default): build one for a book, optionally a page and quoted text — Shamela's copy format, short inline, full with death year, or BibTeX/RIS. Call it whenever you attribute a quote; it needs only the catalogue, plus the installed text for a page's printed number. Read… |
shamela_find | Catalogue lookup — which books, headings, authors and shelves exist, not page text. `kind`: - book (default): titles, authors, publication lines, subject descriptions → book_ids, installed or not. no_title_match: not proof the book is held. downloaded:false → another edition… |
shamela_get_brief | Return this server's machine-readable capability handshake: capabilities, numeric limits, retired tool names with their replacements, and traps (ways a result misleads, each with the response field that proves it fired). Call it first from a programmatic client: inputs are strict, so an argument… |
shamela_get_details | Catalogue record for one book (kind=book, default) or one author (kind=author), installed or not. - book: authors, category, type, printed-edition flag, whether the text is installed here, the scanned printing and the other editions of the same work (same_group). When a reader tool says… |
shamela_lookup_hadith | Hadith. mode=search (default): find a hadith by its wording and trace its takhrij — searches the hadith shelves (Sunnah collections, commentaries, takhrij, hadith sciences) in matn and footnotes, reads hadith keys off the matching pages and lists every collection indexing the same hadith. No… |
shamela_lookup_quran | Qur'an text. mode=search (default): find verses by Arabic words, typed in إملائي spelling or pasted in Uthmani rasm; words ANDed, results in mushaf order (aya_id 1–6236), not relevance. Zero hits usually means a misspelling: drop a word or use options.wildcards. mode=aya: fetch verses you can… |
shamela_lookup_rijal | Hadith narrators and isnad chains, from Shamela's rijal register and isnad index. `mode`: - narrators (default): a narrator by name → narrator_id, most-documented first, then earliest death year. Names collide: confirm the death year before using an id. - narrator: one dossier by narrator_id —… |
shamela_lookup_tafsir | Tafsir on one verse (aya_id OR surah + aya, else BAD_ARG). mode=coverage (default): which tafsir books cover it, fetching no text — shelves 3 (tafsir) and 4 (Qur'anic sciences; not 5, tajwid and qira'at) crossed with Shamela's curated tafsir index, plus index hits from other shelves… |
shamela_read | Read an installed book's text and structure by internal ids. `unit`: - page (default): one page_id → body (author's matn), foot (editor's footnotes), printed page label, prev/next page ids, enclosing headings. - range: up to 20 consecutive pages from start_page_id, each with text, footnotes… |
shamela_search | Full-text search inside the pages (matn and footnotes) of installed books. `match` picks how the query is read: - words (default): every word required, ranked by relevance; options add morphology, wildcards, chronological sort. An all-words miss retries with fewer words (relaxed_min_match)… |
shamela_search_library | Search one named shelf of the classical Islamic library (8,594 works) for quotable passages: verbatim Arabic with book, author, printed volume/page, edition and a link to the page in the Quran Gallery Maktabah reader. The default first search for hadith, tafsir, fiqh or creed. Not for isnads… |
shamela_survey_topic | Count how much the library holds on a term and where: the exact matching-page total plus its distribution by category, Hijri century, book and author (top 15 each). Statistics only, never passages — use shamela_search(match='words') instead to retrieve and read the pages. Run it before searching… |
shamela_verify_quote | Checks whether an Arabic quotation occurs in the classical library and where: book, author, printed volume/page, edition, and whether the words are in the main text or in an editor's footnote. Use it on a passage an assistant quoted from memory. Matching ignores diacritics, tatweel and alef forms… |
In its maker's words
Classical Islamic library (Shamela, 8,594 books): verbatim Arabic cited by volume and page. No key.
- Website
- qurangallery.com/mcp
- Publisher
- qurangallery.com
- Listed from
- the official MCP Registry as
com.qurangallery/mcp - Version
- 0.3.0, updated 16 Oct 2026
- Kinds of work
- Documents and files, Search and research, Writing and translation
The domain it lives on
- qurangallery.com
- registered 21 Feb 2025 (1 year ago), at Cloudflare, Inc., its home page is a working site
From our own crawl of domain names: registry records and the home page as our crawler last saw it.
Every call we made
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