Islamic tools

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.
• itools^AUR: a rewrite of cal-islam.el in C. Offers ical and idate analogous to cal and date utilities.
• python-hijri-converter^AUR.

Libraries

• libitl^AUR: 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-times^AUR: based on the algorithm provided by prayertimes.org^{[dead link 2024-03-03 ⓘ]}.
• minbar^{AUR[broken link: package not found]}: Islamic prayer times and athan for GNOME.
• salahtime^AUR: A small C program for showing prayer time.

Quran

• quran-companion^AUR: a modern Quran reader/player with translations.
• zekr^AUR: research tool for Quran.
• quran-rofi^AUR: a rofi script for looking up verses and chapters.
• cnoor-git^AUR: simple framebuffer Quran viewer.

See also

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