Datasets:

wheelofheaven
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quran-woh

Error code:   StreamingRowsError
Exception:    CastError
Message:      Couldn't cast
ref: string
chapter: int64
verse: int64
original: string
original_lang: string
transliteration: string
english: string
reference_english: string
reference_version: string
reference_license: string
commentary: string
glossary_refs: list<item: string>
  child 0, item: string
witness_primary: string
witness_secondary: string
version: string
schemaVersion: int64
scope: string
entries: list<item: struct<id: string, source: string, translit: string, strongs: null, lemma: string, partOf (... 147 chars omitted)
  child 0, item: struct<id: string, source: string, translit: string, strongs: null, lemma: string, partOfSpeech: str (... 135 chars omitted)
      child 0, id: string
      child 1, source: string
      child 2, translit: string
      child 3, strongs: null
      child 4, lemma: string
      child 5, partOfSpeech: string
      child 6, literal: string
      child 7, standardEnglish: string
      child 8, wohChoice: string
      child 9, claim_type: string
      child 10, rationale: string
      child 11, appliesTo: list<item: string>
          child 0, item: string
description: string
sourceLanguages: list<item: string>
  child 0, item: string
to
{'schemaVersion': Value('int64'), 'version': Value('string'), 'scope': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'sourceLanguages': List(Value('string')), 'entries': List({'id': Value('string'), 'source': Value('string'), 'translit': Value('string'), 'strongs': Value('null'), 'lemma': Value('string'), 'partOfSpeech': Value('string'), 'literal': Value('string'), 'standardEnglish': Value('string'), 'wohChoice': Value('string'), 'claim_type': Value('string'), 'rationale': Value('string'), 'appliesTo': List(Value('string'))})}
because column names don't match
Traceback:    Traceback (most recent call last):
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 147, in get_rows_or_raise
                  return get_rows(
                      dataset=dataset,
                  ...<4 lines>...
                      column_names=column_names,
                  )
                File "/src/libs/libcommon/src/libcommon/utils.py", line 272, in decorator
                  return func(*args, **kwargs)
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 127, in get_rows
                  rows_plus_one = list(itertools.islice(safe_iter(ds, dataset=dataset), rows_max_number + 1))
                File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 478, in safe_iter
                  yield from ds.decode(False) if ds.features else ds
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2818, in __iter__
                  for key, example in ex_iterable:
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2355, in __iter__
                  for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2380, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.ex_iterable._iter_arrow():
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 536, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in iterator:
                                       ^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 419, in _iter_arrow
                  for key, pa_table in self.generate_tables_fn(**gen_kwags):
                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 343, in _generate_tables
                  self._cast_table(pa_table, json_field_paths=json_field_paths),
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 132, in _cast_table
                  pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self.info.features.arrow_schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2369, in table_cast
                  return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
                File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2297, in cast_table_to_schema
                  raise CastError(
                  ...<3 lines>...
                  )
              datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
              ref: string
              chapter: int64
              verse: int64
              original: string
              original_lang: string
              transliteration: string
              english: string
              reference_english: string
              reference_version: string
              reference_license: string
              commentary: string
              glossary_refs: list<item: string>
                child 0, item: string
              witness_primary: string
              witness_secondary: string
              version: string
              schemaVersion: int64
              scope: string
              entries: list<item: struct<id: string, source: string, translit: string, strongs: null, lemma: string, partOf (... 147 chars omitted)
                child 0, item: struct<id: string, source: string, translit: string, strongs: null, lemma: string, partOfSpeech: str (... 135 chars omitted)
                    child 0, id: string
                    child 1, source: string
                    child 2, translit: string
                    child 3, strongs: null
                    child 4, lemma: string
                    child 5, partOfSpeech: string
                    child 6, literal: string
                    child 7, standardEnglish: string
                    child 8, wohChoice: string
                    child 9, claim_type: string
                    child 10, rationale: string
                    child 11, appliesTo: list<item: string>
                        child 0, item: string
              description: string
              sourceLanguages: list<item: string>
                child 0, item: string
              to
              {'schemaVersion': Value('int64'), 'version': Value('string'), 'scope': Value('string'), 'description': Value('string'), 'sourceLanguages': List(Value('string')), 'entries': List({'id': Value('string'), 'source': Value('string'), 'translit': Value('string'), 'strongs': Value('null'), 'lemma': Value('string'), 'partOfSpeech': Value('string'), 'literal': Value('string'), 'standardEnglish': Value('string'), 'wohChoice': Value('string'), 'claim_type': Value('string'), 'rationale': Value('string'), 'appliesTo': List(Value('string'))})}
              because column names don't match

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Qur'an (early-manuscript selection) — Wheel of Heaven Translation

A verse-aligned parallel corpus of Qur'an (early-manuscript selection) — the arb source text alongside the Wheel of Heaven English translation, with transliteration, manuscript-witness attribution, per-verse translator commentary, an aligned public-domain reference translation, and a translation glossary. An English translation of three short Qur'anic passages — Sūrat al-Anbiyāʾ 1–5, Sūrat al-Qamar 1, and Sūrat al-Wāqiʿah 15–24 — produced from the rasm (bare consonantal skeleton) of the earliest-attested Hijazi-script Qur'anic manuscripts (mid-to-late 7th c. CE, radiocarbon-dated). The project's first Islamic-tradition text and first Arabic-source text. The three passages are the only Qur'anic passages the Raëlian canon engages with chapter-and-verse precision (in Extra-Terrestrials Took Me To Their Planet).

The early-manuscript approach. Rather than working from the modern Cairo recension (1924 King Fuad edition, the standard printed Qur'an based on the late-medieval Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim reading-tradition), this translation works from the rasm of the earliest-surviving Qur'anic manuscript-witnesses. The rasm is the bare consonantal skeleton — no dots distinguishing letters of similar shape (iʿjām), no vowel marks (tashkīl) — that constitutes the manuscript's actual scribal content. The dots and vowel marks were added to Qur'anic manuscripts over the course of the 8th–10th centuries CE; the underlying rasm in the earliest manuscripts is substantially what was copied in the 7th century.

Sources per sura. Sūrat al-Anbiyāʾ 1–5 is sourced from Tübingen Fragment Ma VI 165 (Hijazi script; radiocarbon-dated 649–675 CE, within 17–43 years of the traditional Uthmanic codification c. 650 CE; contains Suras 17–36) with cross-collation against Codex Parisino-petropolitanus (BnF Arabe 328 et al.; Hijazi, late 7th c.). Sūrat al-Qamar 1 and Sūrat al-Wāqiʿah 15–24 are sourced from Codex Parisino-petropolitanus.

Verification status. This is a best-effort reconstruction from published facsimiles and the Corpus Coranicum digital apparatus; verification against the original manuscript codicology and the full Sadeghi–Goudarzi 2010 / Hilali 2017 / Déroche 2009 / Déroche 2014 apparatus is pending. Variants where the early manuscripts differ from the modern Cairo recension are documented per ayah.

The textual-criticism context. The Qur'an's textual transmission is genuinely scholarly-contested in modern manuscript studies. The Sadeghi-Goudarzi 2010 thesis frames the early manuscripts as evidence of an early canonical text with limited variation. The Hilali 2017 thesis frames the Sanʿāʾ 1 palimpsest evidence as showing 'transmission in flux' during the first century AH. Earlier scholarship (Wansbrough 1977, Crone-Cook 1977) proposed later-canonization frameworks that more recent manuscript discoveries have substantially nuanced. This translation preserves the textual-criticism dispute rather than adjudicating it.

The Raëlian-canon citation context. Extra-Terrestrials Took Me To Their Planet cites Sura 21:1–5, Sura 54:1, and Sura 56:15–24. The WoH-Translation pipeline produces the philologically-disciplined version of these passages from the earliest manuscript-witnesses, with explicit operational disavowals against the Raëlian-canon's pre-filtered readings (Sura 54:1 inshiqāq al-qamar read as 'ET propulsion event'; Sura 56:15–24 read against the orientalist-houris stereotype with the canon's paradisal-reception framing layered on top) — acknowledgment-without-endorsement, per the Shi'ur Qomah parasangs precedent.

Files

quran-woh.jsonl — 16 rows, one per verse.
glossary.json — the 4-entry translation glossary (the lexical decisions that make this a Wheel of Heaven translation rather than a generic one).

Columns

ref, chapter, verse, original (source script), original_lang, transliteration, english (WoH translation), reference_english (aligned public-domain translation; empty where none is available), reference_version, reference_license, commentary (translator's note; populated only for verses the editor annotated), glossary_refs, witness_primary, witness_secondary.

Reference translation

No aligned public-domain English reference translation is bundled for this text. The reference_english column is present but empty, so the schema is identical across the whole collection; a public-domain reference may be added in a later revision.

Method & provenance

Produced under the Wheel of Heaven Translation Program (translator → editor → reviewer → human sign-off).

Review status: best-effort manuscript reconstruction, pending verification — not yet through editor/reviewer sign-off.

Source: Sadeghi, Behnam, and Bergmann, Uwe, 'The Codex of a Companion of the Prophet and the Qurʾān of the Prophet' (Arabica 57, 2010, pp. 343-436) — the foundational radiocarbon and codicological study of the Sanʿāʾ 1 palimpsest. Sadeghi, Behnam, and Goudarzi, Mohsen, 'Sanʿāʾ 1 and the Origins of the Qurʾān' (Der Islam 87, 2010, pp. 1-129) — the transcription of the Sanʿāʾ 1 lower text. Hilali, Asma, The Sanaa Palimpsest: The Transmission of the Qur'an in the First Centuries AH (Oxford 2017). Déroche, François, Qur'ans of the Umayyads (Brill 2014) and La transmission écrite du Coran dans les débuts de l'islam: le codex Parisino-petropolitanus (Brill 2009). Neuwirth, Angelika, Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text (Oxford 2014). Reynolds, Gabriel Said (ed.), The Qur'ān in Its Historical Context (Routledge 2008/2011, 2 vols). Corpus Coranicum project (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) for the digital comparative apparatus.

License & citation

The Wheel of Heaven layer — source pointing, English translation, per-verse commentary, and glossary — is dedicated to the public domain under CC0-1.0. Documentation and the reading edition: https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/quran-woh/.

Wheel of Heaven Translation Program. Qur'an (early-manuscript selection) (Wheel of Heaven Translation). Wheel of Heaven, 2026. CC0-1.0. https://www.wheelofheaven.world/library/quran-woh/

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