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# Islamic tools

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Islamic tools are a software set for Quran, Hijri calendar, prayer times, and Qibla direction.

## Hijri

- emacs: ships with cal-islam.el module, which converts dates based on the algorithms specified in Calendrical Calculations book by Dershowitz and Reingold.
- itoolsAUR: a rewrite of cal-islam.el in C. Offers ical and idate analogous to cal and date utilities.
- python-hijri-converterAUR.

### Libraries

- libitlAUR: Islamic Tools Library provided by Wikipedia:Arabeyes contains a set of command-line utilities for date conversion and Islamic APIs.
- luaHijri: Lua module, used by Arabic Wikipedia in the main page.
- phphijri
- Supported in java8 and above.

## Other

### Prayer times

- prayer-timesAUR: based on the algorithm provided by praytimes.org.
- salahtimeAUR: A small C program for showing prayer time.

### Quran

- quran-companionAUR: a modern Quran reader/player with translations.
- zekrAUR: research tool for Quran.
- quran-rofiAUR: a rofi script for looking up verses and chapters.
- cnoor-gitAUR: simple framebuffer Quran viewer.

## See also

- Umm Alqura algorithm technical reading
- Localization/Arabic
- Bidirectional text

Category:

- Localization