Passages
A licensed text at a stable address, shown with the edition and page it came from. Never reworded, never generated.
The reading room is not open.
This host will hold licensed texts that anyone can read, search and cite without an account. It holds none of them yet, and no corpus has been ingested.
Why this is a separate address
A browser attaches a site’s cookies to every request that site receives. If the reading room shared an address with the shop, then reading a verse and buying a book would arrive at the server carrying the same identity, and a record of which person read which passage of scripture would exist whether anyone intended it or not.
Separating the addresses is what makes that impossible rather than merely forbidden. It is the reason this page exists before its content does.
What this host does not do
- Sets no cookie of any kind: not a session, not a preference, not a locale.
- Has no account, and no way to create one.
- Runs no analytics, because here the address of a page is the address of a passage.
- Writes no search term and no passage address to any log.
What it is intended to become
Provenance
For every passage: where it was retrieved from, under which licence, who authorised the import, and how complete that chain is.
Arabic search
Search that works on ordinary Arabic input, and an exact mode that keeps the diacritics rather than folding them away.
Citation
An address that still resolves after the whole corpus has been rebuilt from its manifests. That is the promise the design is organised around.
Why this page is not in search engines
A citation has to resolve for a stranger who follows it. That is what public means, and it is what this host will be. Whether a search engine may also index and quote a licensed text is a different question, and it is the rights holder’s to answer, so the answer stays no until each one has been asked.