About

This site examines what the Quran says about women — starting with Chapter 4 (An-Nisa, "The Women"). It is women-centered: the homepage is the cast of women in the Quran — named, referenced-by-relation, and categorical — and verses are connections to them.

The opening fact carries the editorial point: only one woman is explicitly named in the entire Quran — Maryam. Everyone else is "wife of," "mother of," or a category like "those your right hands possess." Making women the entry points reveals this fact structurally, not rhetorically.

Stance

Factual, primary-source-driven, minimal apologetics. Tags describe what is in the text ("permits violence," "assigns unequal share") rather than evaluating it ("misogyny," "fair"). The reader draws the conclusion from the evidence.

Sources

• Translations · Sahih International (1997), Yusuf Ali (1934), Shakir (1980), Muhammad Sarwar (1981), Mohsin Khan (1985). Imported from projectq.io.
• Arabic (uthmani) · alquran.cloud / Tanzil.net
• Chronology · Standard scholarly block ordering of Medinan revelations
• Per-verse source links · corpus.quran.com

Scope of v1

Chapter 4 (An-Nisa) fully covered: all 176 verses with Arabic + 5 translations + faceted tags + cross-links to women/categories. Maryam has a full bio. The other nine named-by-relation women have stub pages.

Deferred to v2

• Multi-translation side-by-side comparison view
• Deep-dive essays on each named woman's verses
• Biblical and pre-Islamic parallels per verse
• Translation-history timelines showing how a key word shifts across translators and eras
• Other chapters fully populated

Lineage

This site is a successor to projectq.io (2022), which catalogued 26 Ch. 4 verses under a freeform tag system. This version restructures the navigation around women as entities, formalizes the tag taxonomy as four descriptive facets, and adds the chronological reading and per-verse source data.