Data Sources & Attribution
Minar is built on open datasets, verified scholarly works, and transparent licensing. We document the provenance of all religious texts, astronomical calculations, and citations.
Open Dua (Hisn al-Muslim)
Dataset v0.0.4 · CC BY 4.0 per opendua.org/developers; the catalogue names it the OpenDua Data Licence (confirmation requested)The duas and adhkar in Minar are imported directly from the Open Dua repository. All 267 entries across 132 chapters of Sa'id ibn Ali ibn Wahf al-Qahtani's classical work, Hisn al-Muslim (Fortress of the Muslim), are provided in full with Arabic vocalization (tashkeel), transliteration, and English translation.
OpenDua dataset v0.0.4 (https://opendua.org), by Ihsan Labs at the Human Development Fund. Based on Hisn al-Muslim by Sa'id ibn Ali ibn Wahf al-Qahtani.
OpenDua editorial text and dataset structure are licensed CC BY 4.0. OpenDua makes no ownership claim over the underlying religious texts.
Recitation by Muhammad Jumah for OpenDua.
Astronomical Prayer Calculations
Adhan library · Batoul Apps (MIT Licence)Prayer times and solar angles are calculated deterministically on the client device using the standard astronomical algorithms from the adhan library. Minar supports all major calculation authorities, including ISNA (North America), Muslim World League, Umm al-Qura (Makkah), University of Islamic Sciences (Karachi), Egyptian General Authority of Survey, Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Singapore, Tehran, and Turkey (Diyanet).
City Search & Time Zones
GeoNames cities15000 and cities5000 · CC BY 4.0City names, coordinates and time zones come from the GeoNames gazetteer (every city with more than 15,000 people), used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The list is bundled with Minar and searched on your device. The public prayer-time pages also use the cities with more than 5,000 people in Canada. We reduced the data to the fields we need.
Quran Text
Tanzil Project · Uthmani text · CC BY 3.0The Arabic Quran text is the Uthmani text from the Tanzil Project, used under the Tanzil text licence (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0). It is copied verbatim and has not been changed. Surah names and ayah counts come from Tanzil's Quran metadata. See tanzil.net for updates.
Hadith
fawazahmed0/hadith-api · UnlicenseThe Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi and the Forty Hadith Qudsi, in Arabic and English, come from the hadith-api dataset by fawazahmed0, released under the Unlicense. The text and any grades are shown exactly as the dataset gives them.
Citations & References
Sunnah.com Hisn al-Muslim CollectionEvery dua page links directly to its authoritative record on Sunnah.com using its Hisn al-Muslim index number (e.g. https://sunnah.com/hisn/{n}) so readers can see the reference for each entry on sunnah.com.
Scheduled Dataset Integrations
As additional modules land on the Minar roadmap, corresponding licensed datasets will be credited here:
- Tanzil Project: Standardized Uthmani Quranic text with verification metadata.
- EveryAyah: Community audio recitations under permissive creative licenses.