A Corpus-Aligned Uthmani-to-Standard Quranic Word Mapping and a Deterministic Recitation Validator

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14967v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:20:42 GMT
• Title: A Corpus-Aligned Uthmani-to-Standard Quranic Word Mapping and a Deterministic Recitation Validator
• Abstract summary: Quranic text is distributed in two orthographic forms: the Uthmani script used in every printed mushaf, and the Standard (Imla'i) Arabic form that every mainstream Arabic NLP tool is built for.<n>We create a 2,290-pair, corpus-aligned Uthmani-to-Standard word mapping constructed by aligning the complete 6,236-verse Quran across both orthographic forms.<n>We build a deterministic, LLM-free Quranic recitation validator using a four-layer verse-matching search and word-error-rate-graded feedback.
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• Abstract: Quranic text is distributed in two orthographic forms that are byte-level distinct: the Uthmani script used in every printed mushaf, and the Standard (Imla'i) Arabic form that every mainstream Arabic NLP tool is built for. The gap is concentrated in one Unicode character, U+0670 (superscript alef), which appears in some of the most frequently recited words in the Quran and is silently mishandled by general-purpose Arabic normalizers. We release a 2,290-pair, corpus-aligned Uthmani-to-Standard word mapping constructed by aligning the complete 6,236-verse Quran across both orthographic forms, together with a seven-step text normalization pipeline built on it. Normalizing both forms of all 6,236 verses through that pipeline yields identical strings for 90.9% of verses, and we characterize the residual divergence rather than assert that it is closed. On top of the normalized text, we build a deterministic, LLM-free Quranic recitation validator using a four-layer verse-matching search (exact, morphological, relaxed, fuzzy) and word-error-rate-graded feedback across five severity tiers. The validator scores 98.4% (122/124) on a 124-case suite emitted by the released test harness, and both failures share one mechanism: a single substitution error can make a different verse an exact match. A full-corpus census additionally quantifies an inherent text-only ambiguity affecting 16.5% of verses, and on 34 recitation transcripts drawn from a deployed Arabic ASR system the validator identifies the correct verse in every case. We release the mapping, the script that builds it, the validator, and the evaluation harness under open licenses; every number in this paper except the deployment measurement, whose transcripts are not ours to publish, is reproduced by running them.

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