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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.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/qurancn/islamic-articles-corpus.

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☪ Islamic Articles Corpus - English RAG Dataset

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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

Embeddable Dataset Viewer

html

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

Direct viewer links:

Topic Distribution

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

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

sql

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;

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

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)

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](https://huggingface.co/datasets/qurancn/islamic-articles-corpus) (this)	33	en	English articles

Usage

python

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

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

bibtex

@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