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<b>A Reproducibility Dataset of Repeated Verses, Phrase Returns, Positional Recurrence, and Structural Function in the Qur'an</b>

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<p dir="ltr">This dataset develops a reproducibility framework for studying refrain and recurrence across all 114 surahs of the Qur'an.</p><p dir="ltr">The study distinguishes the observable fact of textual repetition from the stronger interpretive claim that a recurrence performs a specific structural function.

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Version 1.0.0 therefore separates surface-exact repeated ayahs, normalized full-ayah equivalence, recurring phrase families, positional distribution, inherited passage alignment, negative controls, and later structural interpretation into independently auditable fields.</p><p dir="ltr">The working corpus contains 6,236 ayahs.

The surface-exact layer identifies 95 repeated full-ayah families comprising 274 occurrences. After documented Arabic normalization, the dataset identifies 98 repeated full-ayah families comprising 280 occurrences. The small difference between the raw and normalized layers makes the effect of preprocessing visible rather than hiding it inside the final results.</p><p dir="ltr">At phrase level, the dataset analyzes contiguous normalized Arabic sequences from three to eight tokens and retains recurring families that meet the release threshold.

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These phrase-level records allow recurrence to be studied below the level of the full ayah while preserving frequency, corpus dispersion, surah concentration, positional information, and redundancy controls.</p><p dir="ltr">The study also identifies 13 exact full-ayah within-surah refrain candidates occurring at least three times in the same surah. These include prominent recurrence systems in Al-Rahman, Al-Mursalat, Al-Shu'ara, Al-Qamar, and Al-Saffat.

Each refrain record preserves occurrence count, first and last position, inter-recurrence spacing, spacing variability, passage coverage, and Qur'anic references without automatically assigning rhetorical or structural meaning.</p><p dir="ltr">Every recurrence occurrence is mapped to canonical surah and ayah reference, relative position within the surah, traditional Meccan/Medinan classification, provisional macro-group metadata, and inherited rukūʿ position.

This makes it possible to examine whether a repeated unit falls at a passage beginning, ending, near a boundary, or within a passage while maintaining the methodological rule that positional coincidence is descriptive evidence rather than proof of structural design.</p><p dir="ltr">The package also includes high-dispersion short-phrase negative controls. These controls address a central risk in recurrence research: a phrase that appears frequently across many surahs should not automatically be treated as a locally significant structural marker merely because it recurs.</p><p dir="ltr">Selected pilot analyses examine several distinct recurrence patterns.

Al-Rahman provides a dense exact refrain system; Al-Mursalat demonstrates repeated warning recurrence; Al-Shu'ara contains several overlapping full-ayah recurrence families distributed across prophetic narrative sequences; Al-Qamar illustrates repeated memory and warning formulas; and the Ḥā Mīm sequence provides a cross-surah opening recurrence across seven consecutive surahs.</p><p dir="ltr">The full package contains repeated-ayah family and occurrence registries, phrase-family and phrase-occurrence datasets, within-surah refrain candidates, cross-surah recurrence records, a 114-surah recurrence summary, rukūʿ-alignment statistics, negative controls, structural-function coding templates, controlled vocabulary, codebook, source and coder registries, research questions, figures, figure data, documentation, and checksum manifests.</p><p dir="ltr">The dataset is intended for Qur'anic studies, Islamic studies, Arabic textual analysis, naẓm and munāsabah research, discourse structure, literary recurrence, digital humanities, corpus-assisted close reading, and reproducible humanities research.</p><p dir="ltr">Its wider purpose is to make recurrence claims testable, comparable, and revisable by preserving the distinction between textual repetition, positional pattern, and demonstrated structural meaning.</p>

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