| --- |
| dataset_info: |
| - config_name: default |
| features: |
| - name: book_id |
| dtype: int32 |
| - name: shamela_id |
| dtype: int32 |
| - name: title_ar |
| dtype: string |
| - name: category_id |
| dtype: int8 |
| - name: category_name_ar |
| dtype: string |
| - name: main_author_id |
| dtype: int32 |
| - name: main_author_name_ar |
| dtype: string |
| - name: main_author_death_hijri |
| dtype: int16 |
| - name: page_count |
| dtype: int32 |
| - name: body |
| dtype: string |
| - name: footnotes |
| dtype: string |
| - name: page_num |
| dtype: int16 |
| splits: |
| - name: full |
| num_bytes: 19000000000 |
| num_examples: 8589 |
| download_size: 19000000000 |
| dataset_size: 19000000000 |
| - config_name: meta |
| features: |
| - name: authors |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: book_metadata |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: categories |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: quran_verses |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: narrators |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: root_dictionary |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: hadith_xrefs |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: tafsir_xrefs |
| dtype: struct |
| - name: page_isnads |
| dtype: struct |
| splits: |
| - name: meta |
| num_bytes: 185000000 |
| num_examples: 1 |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: full |
| path: "*/**" |
| - config_name: meta |
| data_files: |
| - split: meta |
| path: "_meta/**" |
| license: mit |
| license_url: https://shamela.ws |
| language: |
| - ar |
| multilinguality: |
| - monolingual |
| size_categories: |
| - 10M<n<100M |
| annotations_creators: |
| - found |
| source_datasets: |
| - original |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| - fill-mask |
| - token-classification |
| - question-answering |
| - text-retrieval |
| task_ids: |
| - language-modeling |
| - named-entity-recognition |
| pretty_name: Shamela 4 — Full Islamic Library Corpus |
| tags: |
| - islamic-studies |
| - arabic |
| - classical-arabic |
| - quran |
| - hadith |
| - fiqh |
| - tafsir |
| - aqeedah |
| - arabic-linguistics |
| - shamela |
| --- |
| |
| # Shamela 4 — Full Islamic Library Corpus |
|
|
| A complete extraction of **al-Maktaba al-Shamela (الشاملة) v4**, containing **8,589 books** across **40 categories** of classical Islamic sciences. Extracted from the original Lucene + Sqlite Shamela DB on 2026-04-26 with ~7.6 million pages and ~19 GB of Arabic text. |
|
|
| ## Dataset Structure |
|
|
| ``` |
| stage0_raw/ |
| ├── _meta/ # Cross-cutting metadata (Parquet + JSONL) |
| │ ├── extraction_manifest.json # Global extraction record |
| │ ├── authors.parquet # 3,187 authors |
| │ ├── book_metadata.parquet # All 8,589 book records |
| │ ├── categories.parquet # 41 categories |
| │ ├── quran_verses.parquet # 6,236 verses (entire Quran) |
| │ ├── narrators.parquet # 18,989 hadith narrators |
| │ ├── root_dictionary.parquet # ~1.95M Arabic root entries |
| │ ├── hadith_xrefs.parquet # ~37K cross-references |
| │ ├── tafsir_xrefs.parquet # ~84K exegesis links |
| │ ├── page_isnads.parquet # ~35K transmission chains |
| │ └── *.jsonl # Text-preview equivalents |
| │ |
| ├── 01__العقيدة/ # Category directories (numbered 01–40) |
| │ └── 1__الفواكه-العذاب-في-الرد/ # Per-book directories |
| │ ├── manifest.json # Integrity checksums + metadata |
| │ ├── book_metadata.json # Bibliographic record |
| │ ├── toc.jsonl # Table of contents (JSONL) |
| │ └── pages.jsonl # Full page text (JSONL) |
| │ |
| ├── ... |
| │ |
| └── 40__علوم-أخرى/ |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### Per-Book Files |
|
|
| | File | Format | Description | |
| |------|--------|-------------| |
| | `manifest.json` | JSON | Extraction metadata, SHA-256 checksums, page/toc counts | |
| | `book_metadata.json` | JSON | Title, author(s), death dates, category, edition info | |
| | `toc.jsonl` | JSONL | Hierarchical table of contents with page anchors | |
| | `pages.jsonl` | JSONL | Full page content: body text, footnotes, page numbers | |
|
|
| ### Pages JSONL Schema |
|
|
| ```jsonc |
| { |
| "page_id": 1, // Sequential page ID |
| "book_id": 1, // FK to book |
| "shamela_page_id": 1, // Original Shamela ID |
| "part": null, // Volume/part (for multi-volume books) |
| "page_num": 3, // Printed page number |
| "sequence_num": 1, // Reading order |
| "body": "Arabic text...", // Main text with minimal HTML: |
| // <span data-type='title' id=toc-N>Heading</span> |
| "footnotes": null, // Footnote text (¬١, ¬٢ markers) |
| "hints": null, // Additional annotations |
| "services_raw": null // Source service data |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### TOC JSONL Schema |
|
|
| ```jsonc |
| { |
| "title_id": 1, |
| "book_id": 1, |
| "page_id": 5, // Page where heading appears |
| "parent_id": null, // Hierarchical parent (null = root) |
| "shamela_title_id": 2, |
| "title_text": "مقدمة المحقق" // Heading text |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### Book Metadata Schema |
|
|
| ```jsonc |
| { |
| "book_id": 1, |
| "shamela_id": 1, |
| "title_ar": "الفواكه العذاب في الرد على من لم يحكم السنة والكتاب", |
| "book_type": 1, |
| "book_type_label": "كتاب", |
| "category_id": 1, |
| "category_name_ar": "العقيدة", |
| "main_author_id": 513, |
| "main_author_name_ar": "حمد بن ناصر آل معمر", |
| "main_author_death_hijri": 1225, |
| "authors": [ |
| { "author_id": 513, "role": "author", "name_ar": "...", "death_hijri": 1225 } |
| ], |
| "printed": true, |
| "is_hidden": false, |
| "betaka_text": "Full bibliographic description...", |
| "version_major": 5, |
| "version_minor": 0, |
| "volume_count_observed": 0, |
| "has_multi_part": false |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Statistics |
|
|
| | Metric | Count | |
| |--------|-------| |
| | **Books** | 8,589 | |
| | **Pages** | 7,611,186 | |
| | **TOC entries** | 4,060,485 | |
| | **Authors** | 3,187 | |
| | **Categories** | 41 | |
| | **Isnad (chains)** | 35,526 | |
| | **Narrators** | 18,989 | |
| | **Quran verses** | 6,236 | |
| | **Tafsir cross-refs** | 84,430 | |
| | **Hadith cross-refs** | 37,076 | |
| | **Root dictionary** | 1,952,803 | |
| | **Total size** | ~19 GB | |
| | **Meta directory** | ~177 MB | |
| | **Rejected books** | 0 | |
|
|
| ### Largest Categories |
|
|
| | # | Category | Books | |
| |---|----------|-------| |
| | 06 | كتب السنة (Hadith Collections) | 1,241 | |
| | 01 | العقيدة (Creed) | 807 | |
| | 23 | الرقائق والآداب والأذكار (Spirituality) | 625 | |
| | 26 | التراجم والطبقات (Biographies) | 579 | |
| | 19 | مسائل فقهية (Fiqh Issues) | 429 | |
| | 32 | الأدب (Literature) | 406 | |
| | 39 | كتب عامة (General) | 357 | |
| | 10 | علوم الحديث (Hadith Sciences) | 320 | |
|
|
| ## Coverage |
|
|
| All major Islamic disciplines: |
|
|
| - **Quranic:** Tafsir, Quran Sciences, Tajwid & Qira'at |
| - **Hadith:** The six canonical collections (Kutub al-Sittah), Musnad Ahmad, Muwatta Malik, plus commentaries, sciences (`ilal, rijāl, `ilal), takhrij |
| - **Fiqh:** All four Sunni madhahib (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali), general fiqh, usul al-fiqh, fiqh maxims, fatāwā |
| - **Aqeedah:** Classical creedal works, refutations, theological debates |
| - **Arabic Language:** Grammar (nahw), morphology (sarf), rhetoric (balāgha), lexicons, poetry, prosody |
| - **History & Biography:** Sirah, tarikh, tabaqat, genealogy, geography |
| - **Other:** Logic, medicine, general works |
|
|
| ## Data Notes |
|
|
| - **Text is raw** — minimal HTML markup preserved (`<span data-type='title'>`, `<hr>`, `<table>`) |
| - **Footnote markers** — `(¬N)` notation linking body to footnotes |
| - **Quranic text** — bracketed with `﴿...﴾` markers |
| - **Honorifics** — ﷺ (SAW), ﵁, ﷿, etc. are single Unicode codepoints |
| - **Multi-volume works** — linked via `parent_id` / `group_id` in metadata |
| - **Author death dates** — Hijri years; negative values = CE dates |
| - **Hidden books** — `is_hidden: true` indicates copyright/access restrictions |
| - **`\r` line endings** — Shamela uses `\r` (carriage return) instead of `\n` |
| - **Base64 images** — some pages contain inline `<img>` with base64 data |
|
|
| ## Extraction |
|
|
| - **Source:** Production PostgreSQL 16 (dockerized) |
| - **Method:** psycopg server-side cursor stream, constant memory |
| - **Date:** 2026-04-26 |
| - **Extractor:** shamela-extractor v0.3.0 |
| - **Snapshot:** `shamela4_full_extraction_pg_2026_04_26` |
| - **No books rejected** — all 8,589 books extracted successfully |
|
|
| ## Usage Examples |
|
|
| ### Load with Hugging Face Datasets |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| # Load a single book by filtering |
| ds = load_dataset("AuthenticIlm/Shamela4_Full_DB", split="full") |
| book_1 = ds.filter(lambda x: x["book_id"] == 1) |
| |
| # Or stream individual JSONL files directly |
| import json |
| with open("01__العقيدة/1__الفواكه-العذاب/pages.jsonl") as f: |
| for line in f: |
| page = json.loads(line) |
| print(page["body"][:200]) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### Load metadata with Polars |
|
|
| ```python |
| import polars as pl |
| |
| df = pl.read_parquet("_meta/book_metadata.parquet") |
| df.filter(pl.col("category_id") == 3) # All tafsir books |
| ``` |
|
|
| ### Query roots from the root dictionary |
|
|
| ```python |
| df = pl.read_parquet("_meta/root_dictionary.parquet") |
| df.filter(pl.col("token").str.contains("صلو")) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Intended Uses |
|
|
| - **Classical Islamic text research** — full-text search, citation extraction, cross-book linking |
| - **Arabic NLP** — language modeling on classical Arabic (pre-modern, diacritized, diverse genres) |
| - **Hadith studies** — chain-of-transmission analysis, narrator networks, takhrij |
| - **Intertextuality analysis** — quotation detection, author attribution, topic propagation |
| - **Lexicography** — root extraction, semantic field analysis from medieval dictionaries |
| - **LLM training/evaluation** — high-quality classical Arabic data for fine-tuning or evaluation |
|
|
| ## Limitations |
|
|
| - This is a full DB dump, including the encoded Narrator tables, etc. |
|
|
| ## License |
|
|
| This dataset is derived from **al-Maktaba al-Shamela (الشاملة)**, a free digital library of classical Islamic texts. The original texts are in the public domain. The compilation and digitization rights belong to their respective owners. |
|
|
| **Terms of use:** Research and personal use. Respect the intellectual property rights of muhaqqiqīn (editors) and publishers for critical editions. |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @misc{shamela4_full_2026, |
| title = {Shamela 4 — Full Islamic Library Corpus}, |
| author = {{AuthenticIlm}}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| note = {Extracted from al-Maktaba al-Shamela v4. 8,589 books, 7.6M pages.}, |
| url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/AuthenticIlm/Shamela4_Full_DB} |
| } |
| |
| @online{shamela, |
| title = {al-Maktaba al-Shamela}, |
| url = {https://shamela.ws} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| --- |
|
|
