qurancn/islamic-articles-corpus

☪ Islamic Articles Corpus - English RAG Dataset

Dataset Description

Islamic Articles Corpus is a curated English-language RAG corpus containing 33 articles covering Muslim travel guides, mosque visits, halal food, prayer room directories, and Islamic community documentation. Every article preserves complete full-text content with all 608 embedded image references. Content focuses heavily on Singapore, Iran, Japan, Oman, and Qatar mosque and travel documentation.

Key Properties

Property	Value
Total Records	33
Language	English (en)
Format	Parquet (auto Dataset Viewer enabled)
Splits	train (26), validation (3), test (4)
Avg. Article Length	10,260 characters
Total Characters	338,603
Total Image References	608
Articles with Images	30 / 33
License	MIT
Version	v2.0.0
Release Date	2026-06-13

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Embeddable Dataset Viewer

<iframe
  src="https://huggingface.co/datasets/qurancn/islamic-articles-corpus/embed/viewer/default/train"
  frameborder="0"
  width="100%"
  height="560px"
></iframe>

Direct viewer links:

• 🔍 Browse All
• 🕌 Mosques
• ✈️ Travel

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Topic Distribution

Category	Count
Mosques & Prayer Rooms	26
Islamic Knowledge	2
Community & Business	2
Travel Guides	2
Halal Food	1

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Data Schema

Column	Type	Description	Queryable
id	string	Article ID	✅
title	string	Full article title	✅ Full-text
text	string	Complete article body with Markdown images	✅ Full-text
text_preview	string	First 300 chars (Viewer-friendly)	✅
source_url	string	Canonical URL	✅
content_hash	string	SHA-256 integrity hash	✅
language	string	Language tag (en)	✅ Filter
topic_category	string	Topic category	✅ Filter
char_count	int32	Character count	✅ Sort
word_count	int32	Word count	✅ Sort
image_count	int32	Image references count	✅ Sort
has_images	bool	Has images	✅ Filter
source_platform	string	Source website	✅ Filter

SQL Console Queries

SELECT topic_category, COUNT(*) as count, AVG(char_count) as avg_len
FROM train GROUP BY topic_category ORDER BY count DESC;

SELECT title, char_count, image_count FROM train ORDER BY image_count DESC LIMIT 10;

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Data Samples

Example: About salaamalykum website：What we are doing now and what we

Field	Value
title	About salaamalykum website：What we are doing now and what we are belie
text_preview	--- # About salaamalykum website：What we are doing now and what we are believe... > Original Source: [https://salaa...
source_url	https://salaamalykum.com/article/1408
topic_category	Islamic Knowledge
char_count	17066
image_count	0

Example: Africalocals.com Buyer Protection, MONEY BACK GUARANTEE and

Field	Value
title	Africalocals.com Buyer Protection, MONEY BACK GUARANTEE and Terms & Co
text_preview	--- # Africalocals.com Buyer Protection, MONEY BACK GUARANTEE and Terms & Conditions > Original Source: [https://sa...
source_url	https://salaamalykum.com/article/1172
topic_category	Islamic Knowledge
char_count	7221
image_count	4

Example: Best Halal Food in Beijing: Muslim-Friendly Restaurants and

Field	Value
title	Best Halal Food in Beijing: Muslim-Friendly Restaurants and Hui Muslim
text_preview	--- # Best Halal Food in Beijing: Muslim-Friendly Restaurants and Hui Muslim Street Food Map (Issue 57) > **Original So...
source_url	https://salaamalykum.com/article/3126
topic_category	Halal Food
char_count	20236
image_count	68

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Data Collection & Processing Pipeline

Source

Articles from salaamalykum.com, an open-source platform documenting Muslim life worldwide.

Processing Steps

1. Content Extraction: Articles sourced from WeCenter 3.1.9 CMS
2. Markdown Formatting: Standardized with headings, blockquotes, and image references
3. SHA-256 Hashing: Content integrity verification per article
4. Topic Classification: Rule-based keyword classifier
5. Parquet Serialization: pyarrow with row_group_size=20, write_page_index=True
6. Split Generation: Deterministic shuffle (seed=42), 80/10/10

Known Limitations

• Image URLs reference external hosts (not embedded as binary)
• Focused primarily on Singapore and Asia-Pacific region
• English content (see Chinese-Muslim for Chinese version)

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Related Datasets

Dataset	Articles	Language	Focus
Chinese-Muslim	279	zh-CN	Full Chinese Muslim knowledge
Chinese-Muslim-Travel	347	zh-CN	Muslim travel
Islamic-Culture	260	zh-CN	Islamic culture
islamic-articles-corpus (this)	33	en	English articles

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Usage

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("qurancn/islamic-articles-corpus")
article = ds["train"][0]
print(article["title"])
print(article["text"])  # Full body with images

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Version History

Version	Date	Changes
v2.0.0	2026-06-13	Full rebuild: Parquet, 3 splits, 13-column schema, complete text + images
v1.0.0	2026-06-13	Initial upload

Citation

@dataset{islamic_articles_corpus_2026,
  title={Islamic Articles Corpus: English RAG Dataset},
  author={Salaamalykum Project},
  year={2026},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/qurancn/islamic-articles-corpus}
}

License

MIT License

Contact

• Email: bropeace@protonmail.com