Zekr (

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:ذكر) is an

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Quran The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...

ic desktop application. It is an open platform Quran study tool for browsing and researching 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 the Quran, according to the project website. Zekr is included in the default installation of

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Linux distribution. Zekr is capable of having multiple add-ons, that is different translation packs, themes, recitations and revelation packs.A list of Zek
add-ons
As of Zekr 0.7.0, it is possible to search through different Quran translations, both with indexed (

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-based) search and basic search. Moreover, this release introduces paging support for Quran text. Zekr accepts different add-ons to make the application as customizable as possible. Currently, it accepts different Quraan translation packs, language packs, Quran revelation order pack and theme packs. Revelation order packs are used to sort search results based on different revelation order schemes. Zekr comes with an NSIS installer for

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External links

*{{Official website, https://web.archive.org/web/20190403224319/http://zekr.org/quran/en/quran-for-windows
Quran.com
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