Towards a Joint Ontology of Quran and Hadith

Shatha Altammami, Eric Atwell, Ammar Alsalka

Abstract


The Quran and the Hadith are two religious texts used by Muslims as reference to perform their daily religious obligations. Hence, developing a computational tool to better understand and link these different texts would be useful for Islamic scholars, learners, and laymen. We hypothesise that linking them using a knowledge-based approach by extending a Quran ontology to cover the Hadith is possible. However, there are several Quran ontologies and none of these were rigorously evaluated using a standard ontology evaluation method. For this reason, we started our experiment by enumerating and discussing the existing Quran ontologies. Then the best candidates of the enumerated ontologies are evaluated using a corpus-based approach to visualize the overlap between these ontologies and the Hadith. Our experiment shows that one Quran ontology could be used as a starting point for a larger scope of an Islamic ontology that covers both the Quran and Hadith.


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