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Quran Gallery Changelog

October 2026 · so far

Maktabah opens 8,594 classical books to read and search page by page. Mirath sets the four schools side by side and backs each step with its evidence. Listen gets a richer search, and AI assistants can now reach the library with no key.

A public Islamic library opens, and Mirath compares the four schools

October opened a new room in the suite. Maktabah puts the classical Islamic library online: 8,594 books, every printed page at its own address, with search, browsing by subject and century, and a reader built for long study sessions. Within days of opening we rebuilt it around how people search and read, adding tafsir side by side and copying a passage with its citation.

Mirath, the inheritance calculator, now sets the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafii and Hanbali schools side by side where they differ, with each school’s reason in a sentence. Every step of the working now cites its evidence, the family is drawn as a tree, 16 more relatives can be added, and the result can be saved as a PDF. A new look followed a week later.

Listen, Studio and the Quran reader also moved forward: a search that suggests before you type, recitation videos you can export from Studio, and the last English-only parts of the Quran reader and Nazira translated into all seven languages.

For people who use AI assistants, the library is now one copy-and-paste away. Connecting needs no account or key, the setup page walks through each assistant, and the list of library tools is shorter and clearer.

In short

  • Maktabah opened: read and search 8,594 classical Islamic books, page by printed page.
  • Mirath now sets the four schools side by side where they differ, and backs every step with its evidence.
  • Maktabah can show up to three tafsirs of the same verse side by side.
  • Studio can turn verses into a recitation video, one page per ayah, timed to the reciter.
  • AI assistants can connect to the Islamic library with no account or key.

Maktabah rebuilt, and a new look for Mirath

Maktabah

  • Maktabah has been rebuilt around how people search and read. Search now has tabs for text, books, authors and chapters, and you can browse the shelves by subject or by the century an author died, or open an author’s page to see all of their books.
  • The reader keeps the contents and an in-book search beside the page, and you can select a passage and copy it with its full citation. You can switch vowel marks on or off, and on a phone the bars tuck away as you scroll so the page fills the screen.
  • Pick any verse at qurangallery.com/maktabah/tafsir to read up to three tafsirs of it side by side. On hadith pages, chips link the verses quoted, list other collections that carry the same hadith, and let you open a narrator’s details without leaving the page.
  • Single-volume books now open instead of showing a “not found” page, and books without a cover get a placeholder instead of a broken image.

Mirath

  • Mirath has a new look. The calculator is now an estate sheet: enter debts and bequests in a ledger, see each heir’s share as a coloured mosaic, switch between the four schools, and open Steps, Schools or Family tree tabs. On a phone, a strip at the bottom keeps the result in view, with a button down to the full card.
  • The results themselves have not changed. Every family gives the same shares as before, and the calculator you embed on your own site uses the same new panels.

MCP

  • The library now offers 14 tools instead of 39, the same for every assistant, so it is easier for an assistant to pick the right one. Tools under their old names still work and point to the new ones, so existing setups keep running.
  • The library searches Arabic text, so an English-only query to the main search tools now gets a clear message asking for Arabic instead of silently finding nothing. The plain search tools also accept the same named shelves, such as one school’s fiqh, that the main search uses.
  • Searching one school’s shelf, such as Shafii fiqh, now lists that school’s own books first and puts a book’s main text ahead of an editor’s footnote. When a search finds only some of your words, or only other words from the same roots, the answer now says it is a near match, so an assistant does not quote it as the wording you asked for.
  • The ChatGPT setup steps now match ChatGPT’s current Plugins screen. Assistants pointed at qurangallery.com/mcp/ now connect as well as those using the full /mcp/shamela address, and requests made with a personal key no longer fail when the accounts service has a brief hiccup.

Across the suite

  • The top bar now speaks your language in the blog, the help pages, Maktabah, the MCP page and Meet, instead of staying in English.
  • Signing in while reading in Maktabah now brings you back to the page you had reached, not the one you started on. Links on the error page also work again from every app.

Quran Reader

  • Wikipedia links on Quran topic pages now open the right article, and links that led nowhere have been removed.

Docs

  • Searching the help pages or the blog no longer turns up stray scraps of page code among the results.

Maktabah opens, and Mirath compares the four schools

Maktabah

  • Maktabah is open at qurangallery.com/maktabah: the classical Islamic library of 8,594 books, free to read. Every printed page has its own address you can share, with the author’s text kept apart from the editor’s footnotes, and every page links back to its source on shamela.ws.
  • Browse by category or author, read a book from its contents, or jump straight to a printed page number. The reader scrolls continuously through the book, remembers where you stopped so you can continue reading, and search groups its results by book, earliest authors first.
  • You will find Maktabah under Study in the Apps menu of every app.

Mirath

  • When the four schools disagree, Mirath now shows a side-by-side table that marks the heirs affected and gives each school’s reason in a sentence. You can still switch the calculation to any school.
  • You can now add 16 more relatives, including great-grandchildren, nephews, uncles, cousins and the more distant kin who inherit when no closer heir remains. Cases that used to be left to a scholar, such as the grandfather sharing with brothers and sisters, are now calculated.
  • Each step of the working now shows its evidence, such as the verse it rests on, with a link to the rule behind it, and the family is drawn as a tree around the deceased. The family you enter stays in the page address, so you can bookmark or share a calculation.
  • Print or save the distribution as a PDF to take to a scholar. It includes what you entered, each share, the working, the evidence and how the schools compare.
  • New reference pages explain the rules: one page per heir with their share and who blocks them, a page for each concept such as ʿawl and radd, the inheritance verses, the method, the sources each school relies on, and every case where the schools differ.

Listen

  • Search in Listen now helps before you type, offering what you were listening to, popular surahs and featured reciters. Results show surah cards and reciter portraits, and searches written in Urdu script or pasted like “sudais-kahf” now find the right recitation.
  • Reciter and recording pages have a reading switcher, so you can move between a reciter’s different readings (riwayat) in one tap. Surah cards across Listen now show who is reciting.
  • The Quran challenge now sits in the Library tabs beside your favourites, history and playlists. Long audio tafsir that comes in several parts now lists each part, and Listen no longer shows an unstyled page right after an update.

Design Studio

  • Studio can now export a recitation video: one page per ayah, timed to your chosen reciter, with the audio included. You can also make a plain slideshow and set the length of each page and the transition.
  • Add one of 13 gentle animated backgrounds, such as stars, snow, light rays or lanterns, and adjust its strength, speed and colour. The Quran panel has been redesigned so you can browse by surah or juz and search verses in one place.
  • Verse search now finds every word you type in any order and puts the exact phrase first, and verses placed on a dark page now come out in light ink instead of disappearing.

MCP

  • You can now connect an AI assistant to the Islamic library with no account and no key: paste the address and start asking. A free key from your account raises the limits.
  • The page at qurangallery.com/mcp now explains it in seven languages, with setup steps for each assistant, one-click install for Cursor and VS Code, and a real example of a cited passage. Each passage now carries its printed edition and a link to the source.
  • ChatGPT deep research can now search the library and read passages in full. You can find the MCP page in every app’s Apps menu, on the home page, and from the sources under a Chat answer.

Quran Reader

  • The last parts of the Quran reader and its study panels that were still in English are now translated into all seven languages, and the reader shows reciters by their proper names.

Nazira

  • Nazira is now fully translated into all seven languages, from the first steps and lessons to the review, leaderboard, settings and results. Arabic-script labels no longer break apart, and the header fits on small phones.

AI Chatbot

  • Chat answers no longer end with a block of stray code, and cautions added to an answer now appear in your language rather than in English.

Meet

  • Meet is now available in Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, French, Indonesian and Turkish.

Across the suite

  • Signing out from the home page or Chat works again. The feedback form now follows your chosen language, and so do the screen-reader labels of the top bar and breadcrumbs.

Docs

  • The Listen guide has been rewritten for today’s app in all seven languages, with fresh screenshots. The Mirath guide is now in all seven languages, and new guides cover Maktabah and how to connect each AI assistant to the library.