Foreword
Abstract
By the grace of Allah, it is a great pleasure to introduce this issue of The International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science and Technology
The success and the welcome of this Journal by researchers from many countries, gave us great encouragement for continuing issuing in the due time. This Journal is aimed at publishing original research papers in the field of Islamic Applications in computer science and technology. This field is catching a momentum in the recent years. As a Journal interested in this field, it is the first International Journal of its specific field. As research is growing in this field, we hope that this Journal will be a platform for researchers working in the field to publish their research.
This issue contains two papers. The first one is entitled: "ENNOUR" To search, interpret and translate verses of the Holy Quran including recitation. This program aims to serve for conducting research on the Holy Quran and learn the pronunciation of the Quranic verses. Moreover, it offers interpretations (explanations) of the verses and also provides their translations in English and French. It is available in five versions: version without recitation, three versions with recitation by a particular reader who may be Saad El-Ghamidi, Mishari Bin Rashid El Afassi or Abu Bakr El Shatiri and the fifth version with recitation by all the readers mentioned before. This tool offers the following main tasks: Display all the Holy Quran, display a specific surah of the Holy Quran, display the whole Holy Quran with explanations, choice of display pattern, choice of font size, explanation of a specific verse (in Arabic), translation of a specific verse to English and French, search for words (whole word or just a substring of the word on the entire Holy Quran or in only one part), search for phrases (whole phrase or just a part of the phrase on the entire Holy Quran or in only one part), printing searched results. In versions with recitation: recitation of a chosen surah or the looped recitation of the whole Holy Quran, recitation with synchronization of text and speech, increase or decrease volume.
The second paper is entitled: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understand and Interpret the Religious Legislative Sources. This paper presents an interdisciplinary approach which allows us to understand and in interpreting the religious legislative sources. Its main objective is the analysis on ontologies. This approach will be applied on ontologies representing the knowledge in the Arabic religious legislative sources to help decision makers in the field of El-fatwa.
