Quranic Computation: A Review of Research and Application

The Noble Qur´an is considered to be the central religious text of Islam. Any linguistic or literary research with the use computational technologies of this text is benefitted by billions of people around the world. It has been observed that this research approach of Qur´anic Computation has strongly established its base in the research and application. This study reviews the evolution of computational effort on the noble book of Quran, both from the research and application point of view. The purpose of this review has been achieved through an exploratory study of several research literatures and various applications documentation. Based on this objective, the study notice that Quranic Computation developed through various researches and application has common goals of achieving easy understanding of the Quran, but have chosen distinct complementary methodology and techniques to achieve it. A snowball technique of collection, classification and categorization of articles or documents from 1997 to 2011 has adopted in the review.