Quran Gallery MCP

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claude mcp add --transport http mcp https://qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela --header "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://qurangallery.com/mcp/shamela

Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.

Tools 15 found in our last check

• shamela_search_library

  Search one named shelf of the classical Islamic library (8,594 works) for quotable passages: verbatim Arabic with book, author, printed volume/page, edition and a link to the page in the Quran Gallery Maktabah reader. The default first search for hadith, tafsir, fiqh or creed. N…

• search

  Search the whole classical Islamic library (8,594 works, no scope) and get up to 10 pages as {id, title, url}; pass an id to `fetch` to read the page. This is the generic one-argument entry (the standard search/fetch pair); the scoped tools answer research questions better. Use…

• fetch

  Read one library page whole by the id `search` returned: main text, then its footnotes under their own label (the editor's words, never the author's), with book, author, printed volume/page, edition data and the link to the page in the Quran Gallery Maktabah reader. Use shamela_…

• shamela_verify_quote

  Checks whether an Arabic quotation occurs in the classical library and where: book, author, printed volume/page, edition, and whether the words are in the main text or in an editor's footnote. Use it on a passage an assistant quoted from memory. Matching ignores diacritics, tatw…

• shamela_search

  Full-text search inside the pages (matn and footnotes) of installed books. `match` picks how the query is read: - words (default): every word required, ranked by relevance; options add morphology, wildcards, chronological sort. An all-words miss retries with fewer words (relaxed…

• shamela_find

  Catalogue lookup — which books, headings, authors and shelves exist, not page text. `kind`: - book (default): titles, authors, publication lines, subject descriptions → book_ids, installed or not. no_title_match: not proof the book is held. downloaded:false → another edition (sh…

• shamela_read

  Read an installed book's text and structure by internal ids. `unit`: - page (default): one page_id → body (author's matn), foot (editor's footnotes), printed page label, prev/next page ids, enclosing headings. - range: up to 20 consecutive pages from start_page_id, each with tex…

• shamela_get_details

  Catalogue record for one book (kind=book, default) or one author (kind=author), installed or not. - book: authors, category, type, printed-edition flag, whether the text is installed here, the scanned printing and the other editions of the same work (same_group). When a reader t…

• shamela_cite

  Citations. mode=citation (default): build one for a book, optionally a page and quoted text — Shamela's copy format, short inline, full with death year, or BibTeX/RIS. Call it whenever you attribute a quote; it needs only the catalogue, plus the installed text for a page's print…

• shamela_lookup_quran

  Qur'an text. mode=search (default): find verses by Arabic words, typed in إملائي spelling or pasted in Uthmani rasm; words ANDed, results in mushaf order (aya_id 1–6236), not relevance. Zero hits usually means a misspelling: drop a word or use options.wildcards. mode=aya: fetch…

• shamela_lookup_tafsir

  Tafsir on one verse (aya_id OR surah + aya, else BAD_ARG). mode=coverage (default): which tafsir books cover it, fetching no text — shelves 3 (tafsir) and 4 (Qur'anic sciences; not 5, tajwid and qira'at) crossed with Shamela's curated tafsir index, plus index hits from other she…

• shamela_lookup_hadith

  Hadith. mode=search (default): find a hadith by its wording and trace its takhrij — searches the hadith shelves (Sunnah collections, commentaries, takhrij, hadith sciences) in matn and footnotes, reads hadith keys off the matching pages and lists every collection indexing the sa…

• shamela_lookup_rijal

  Hadith narrators and isnad chains, from Shamela's rijal register and isnad index. `mode`: - narrators (default): a narrator by name → narrator_id, most-documented first, then earliest death year. Names collide: confirm the death year before using an id. - narrator: one dossier b…

• shamela_survey_topic

  Count how much the library holds on a term and where: the exact matching-page total plus its distribution by category, Hijri century, book and author (top 15 each). Statistics only, never passages — use shamela_search(match='words') instead to retrieve and read the pages. Run it…

• shamela_get_brief

  Return this server's machine-readable capability handshake: capabilities, numeric limits, retired tool names with their replacements, and traps (ways a result misleads, each with the response field that proves it fired). Call it first from a programmatic client: inputs are stric…

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