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Shamela Waqfeya Library

📖 Overview

Shamela Waqfeya is one of the primary online resources for Islamic books, similar to Shamela. It hosts more than 4,500 PDF books across over 40 categories.

In this dataset, we processed the original PDF files using Google Document AI APIs and extracted their contents into two additional formats: TXT and DOCX.

📊 Dataset Contents

The dataset includes 12,877 PDF files (spanning 5,138,027 pages) representing 4,661 Islamic books. Each book is provided in three formats:

• PDF files are located in the pdf directory.
• TXT files are located in the txt directory.
• DOCX files are located in the docx directory.

All three directories (pdf, txt, and docx) share the same folder structure.

For example, a book located at pdf/category/book/file.pdf will have its corresponding TXT and DOCX versions at txt/category/book/file.txt and docx/category/book/file.docx, respectively.

The index.tsv file contains the following information about each book in the dataset:

• category: One of the 83 book categories available in the dataset.
• author: Book author.
• title: Book title.
• pages: Total number of book pages.
• volumes: Number of book volumes.
• pdf_paths: Array of PDF files paths as each book can be splitted into multiple files (e.g. Books with multiple volumes).
• txt_paths: Array of TXT files paths as each book can be splitted into multiple files (e.g. Books with multiple volumes).
• docx_paths: Array of DOCX files paths as each book can be splitted into multiple files (e.g. Books with multiple volumes).

The books are organized into 83 categories, as listed below:

Category	Percentage	Number of Books
أصول الفقه والقواعد الفقهية	4.14%	193
الأجزاء الحديثية	8.54%	398
الأدب والبلاغة	4.72%	220
الأنساب	0.51%	24
البلدان والجغرافيا والرحلات	0.92%	43
التاريخ	3.22%	150
التجويد والقراءات	0.51%	24
التراجم والطبقات	8.28%	386
التفاسير	3.05%	142
الجوامع والمجلات ونحوها	0.79%	37
الدعوة وأحوال المسلمين	3.00%	140
الدواوين الشعرية	0.09%	4
الرقاق والآداب والأذكار	4.76%	222
السياسة الشرعية والقضاء	1.20%	56
السيرة والشمائل	2.32%	108
العقيدة	8.58%	400
العلل والسؤالات	1.35%	63
الغريب والمعاجم ولغة الفقه	2.12%	99
الفتاوى	0.82%	38
الفرق والردود	1.39%	65
النحو والصرف	2.30%	107
بحوث ومسائل	4.23%	197
شروح الحديث	2.96%	138
علوم أخرى	0.26%	12
علوم الحديث	3.82%	178
علوم القرآن	4.78%	223
فقه حنبلي	1.74%	81
فقه حنفي	0.75%	35
فقه شافعي	1.01%	47
فقه عام	1.46%	68
فقه مالكي	1.27%	59
فهارس الكتب والأدلة	1.46%	68
كتب إسلامية عامة	0.06%	3
كتب ابن أبي الدنيا	1.16%	54
كتب ابن القيم	0.99%	46
كتب ابن تيمية	1.54%	72
كتب الألباني	1.57%	73
كتب التخريج والزوائد	2.47%	115
كتب اللغة	0.84%	39
متون الحديث	5.13%	239
محاضرات مفرغة	0.02%	1
مخطوطات حديثية	0.00%	0

📄 TXT Format

Each TXT file contains the raw text extracted by Google Document AI from the corresponding PDF. Pages are separated by the special marker: \nPAGE_SEPARATOR\n.

📝 DOCX Format

DOCX files also contain text extracted via Google Document AI. However, all consecutive whitespace characters have been replaced with a single space character (' ') to help maintain a consistent 1:1 alignment with the original PDF layout.