Ontology based approach for Semantic Search in the Holy Quran

Muslims believe that Holy Quran is the last book revealed by Allah Almighty to His last prophet, Muhammad (Peace and Blessings may Allah be upon him). Like other holy scriptures, the topic and concept drift is very high, thus it is difficult to retrieve the relevant information by querying it. This book provides a framework of accomplishing Semantic Search in Holy Quran using ontology based approach. It provides exploratory research on diverse areas of the Semantic Web and Natural language processing. It reviews existing works in the relevant literature. It also provides step of Ontology development and experiments and queries using the SPARQL query language are shared. A sample ontology using Protégé is developed. The open research issues and challenges in the research domain are also discussed. This can be a good starting step for research students in the relevant areas.