- Zekr
Infobox Software
name = Zekr
caption = The Zekr Project
developer =Mohsen Saboorian et al.
released = January 2005
frequently_updated = yes
programming language =Java (programming language) ,JavaScript
platform =Cross-platform
language =Arabic , Bosnian, Dutch, English, French, German,Hebrew ,Indonesian , Kurdish, Malay, Persian,Pashto , Russian, Spanish,Tatar , Turkish,Urdu , Uzbek
genre =Quran ,Religious texts
license = GPLv2
website = [http://zekr.org zekr.org]Zekr is an
open source Quran ic desktop application. It is an open platform Quran study tool for browsing and researching on the Quran. Zekr is a Quran-based project, planned to be a "universal", "open source", and "cross-platform" application to perform most of the usual refers to theQuran , according to the project website. [ [http://zekr.org/ zekr.org] ]Zekr is capable of having multiple add-ons, that is different translation packs, themes, recitations and revelation packs. [A list of Zekr [http://zekr.org/resources.html add-ons] ]
As of Zekr 0.7.0, it is possible to search through different Quran translations both with indexed (
Lucene -based) search and basic search. Moreover this release introduces paging support for Quran text.Zekr accepts different
add-on s to make application as customizable as possible. Currently it accepts different Quraan translation packs, language packs, revelation order pack and theme packs. Revelation order packs are used to sort search results based on diferent revelation order schemes.Zekr comes with an
NSIS installer for Windows and anApplication bundle for Mac. There is always a base .tar.gz package for (all) Linux machines as well asDebian package s for Debian-compliant Linux distributions.References
External links
* [http://zekr.org Zekr homepage]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/zekr Zekr on SourceForge.net]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/zekr Zekr Google group]
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