Ontology Based Knowledge Representation For Prayer Complications

Abstract

Prayer (صلاة) is the most important worship and among the five pillars of Islam. The lack of knowledge to offer the Prayer may require to offering it again. Thus, it is necessary for every Muslim to understand the Complications of Prayer carefully to get full benefit of this worship. In the last decade Semantic Web Technologies are getting much popularity in the development of knowledge base system. The ontology is the essential component of Semantic Web Technologies where knowledge can be defined in a standard way that make it interoperable and machine understandable. There is none of the research try to construct ontology for Prayer Complications.  Therefore, this research proposed an ontology based knowledge representation for Prayer Complications using ontology constructs such as concepts, properties, constraints, rules (SWRL). This ontology will answer the user’s complex queries according to Prayer Complications using SPARQL query language and enable the access of knowledge to everyone at any time. In this research, as a first step, the ontology is developed according to Hanafi School, however the conceptualization in ontology is general enough to modify it according to other schools of Fiqh. Finally, the application has been developed to understand the benefits of the proposed research.