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Quran Gallery MCP

com.qurangallery/mcp · v0.3.0

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Description written by the publisher, not verified

Classical Islamic library (Shamela, 8,594 books): verbatim Arabic cited by volume and page. No key.

Connect

claude mcp add --transport http mcp https://qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela"
    }
  }
}

Tools as reported by the server

• shamela_search_library
  Search one named shelf of the classical Islamic library (8,594 works) for quotable passages: verbatim Arabic with book, author, printed volume/page, edition and a shamela.ws link. The default first search for hadith, tafsir, fiqh or creed. Not for isnads, narrators or diacritic-exact wording. Use sh
• search
  Search the whole classical Islamic library (8,594 works, no scope) and get up to 10 pages as {id, title, url}; pass an id to `fetch` to read the page. This is the generic one-argument entry (the standard search/fetch pair); the scoped tools answer research questions better. Use shamela_search_librar
• fetch
  Read one library page whole by the id `search` returned: main text, then its footnotes under their own label (the editor's words, never the author's), with book, author, printed volume/page, edition data and the shamela.ws link. Use shamela_read instead to read one body part at a time (unit "page"),
• shamela_search
  Full-text search inside the pages (matn and footnotes) of installed books. `match` picks how the query is read: - words (default): every word required, ranked by relevance; options add morphology, wildcards, chronological sort. An all-words miss retries with fewer words (relaxed_min_match). - phrase
• shamela_find
  Catalogue lookup — which books, headings, authors and shelves exist, not page text. `kind`: - book (default): titles, authors, publication lines, subject descriptions → book_ids, installed or not. no_title_match: not proof the book is held. downloaded:false → another edition (shamela_get_details(kin
• shamela_read
  Read an installed book's text and structure by internal ids. `unit`: - page (default): one page_id → body (author's matn), foot (editor's footnotes), printed page label, prev/next page ids, enclosing headings. - range: up to 20 consecutive pages from start_page_id, each with text, footnotes, printed
• shamela_get_details
  Catalogue record for one book (kind=book, default) or one author (kind=author), installed or not. - book: authors, category, type, printed-edition flag, whether the text is installed here, the scanned printing and the other editions of the same work (same_group). When a reader tool says BOOK_NOT_DOW
• shamela_cite
  Citations. mode=citation (default): build one for a book, optionally a page and quoted text — Shamela's copy format, short inline, full with death year, or BibTeX/RIS. Call it whenever you attribute a quote; it needs only the catalogue, plus the installed text for a page's printed number. Read page_
• shamela_lookup_quran
  Qur'an text. mode=search (default): find verses by Arabic words, typed in إملائي spelling or pasted in Uthmani rasm; words ANDed, results in mushaf order (aya_id 1–6236), not relevance. Zero hits usually means a misspelling: drop a word or use options.wildcards. mode=aya: fetch verses you can alread
• shamela_lookup_tafsir
  Tafsir on one verse (aya_id OR surah + aya, else BAD_ARG). mode=coverage (default): which tafsir books cover it, fetching no text — shelves 3 (tafsir) and 4 (Qur'anic sciences; not 5, tajwid and qira'at) crossed with Shamela's curated tafsir index, plus index hits from other shelves (in_tafsir_categ
• shamela_lookup_hadith
  Hadith. mode=search (default): find a hadith by its wording and trace its takhrij — searches the hadith shelves (Sunnah collections, commentaries, takhrij, hadith sciences) in matn and footnotes, reads hadith keys off the matching pages and lists every collection indexing the same hadith. No offset;
• shamela_lookup_rijal
  Hadith narrators and isnad chains, from Shamela's rijal register and isnad index. `mode`: - narrators (default): a narrator by name → narrator_id, most-documented first, then earliest death year. Names collide: confirm the death year before using an id. - narrator: one dossier by narrator_id — linea
• shamela_survey_topic
  Count how much the library holds on a term and where: the exact matching-page total plus its distribution by category, Hijri century, book and author (top 15 each). Statistics only, never passages — use shamela_search(match='words') instead to retrieve and read the pages. Run it before searching to
• shamela_get_brief
  Return this server's machine-readable capability handshake: capabilities, numeric limits, retired tool names with their replacements, and traps (ways a result misleads, each with the response field that proves it fired). Call it first from a programmatic client: inputs are strict, so an argument an

Tool changes

• 2026-10-17: shamela_search_library, search, fetch, shamela_search, shamela_find, shamela_read, shamela_get_details, shamela_cite, shamela_lookup_quran, shamela_lookup_tafsir, shamela_lookup_hadith, shamela_lookup_rijal
• 2026-10-16: search_library, search, fetch, shamela_search_pages, shamela_search_titles, shamela_search_books, shamela_search_authors, shamela_get_page, shamela_get_toc, shamela_get_book, shamela_get_author, shamela_list_categories

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