Table · dataset · 2026
<b>A Reproducibility Dataset of Repeated Verses, Phrase Returns, Positional Recurrence, and Structural Function in the Qur'an</b>
Listed in ZivaHub and Deakin Research Online and DMU Figshare and HKU DataHub and Swinburne Figshare and DaYta Ya Rona and SUNScholarData and figshare and Loughborough Research Repository and GRANTS Data and UP Research Data Repository — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.6084/m9.figshare.34041540.v1
<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.
Description
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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- OAI-PMH record api.figshare.com/v2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Af… ↗
metadata API · from zivahub uct ac za
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Provenance · 11 source records, 63 field assertions
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|---|---|---|---|
| ZivaHub | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Deakin Research Online | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DMU Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| HKU DataHub | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Swinburne Figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| DaYta Ya Rona | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| SUNScholarData | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| figshare | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Loughborough Research Repository | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| GRANTS Data | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| UP Research Data Repository | oai:figshare.com:article/34041540 | 3 d ago | JSON v1 |
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|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · figshare swinburne edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · figshare com | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · researchdata up ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · dayta nwu ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · grantsdata jst go jp | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · datahub hku hk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · scholardata sun ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · dro deakin edu au | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:field:500403 | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | vocabulary-mapper@1.0.0 | keywords['Islamic studies'] |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:chemistry | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:chemistry | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-ai | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:computer-science-ai | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare swinburne edu au | connector:figshare_swinburne_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · researchdata up ac za | connector:researchdata_up_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · datahub hku hk | connector:datahub_hku_hk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dayta nwu ac za | connector:dayta_nwu_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · grantsdata jst go jp | connector:grantsdata_jst_go_jp@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · scholardata sun ac za | connector:scholardata_sun_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:economics-finance | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:economics-finance | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · researchdata up ac za | connector:researchdata_up_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · dayta nwu ac za | connector:dayta_nwu_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:engineering | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · grantsdata jst go jp | connector:grantsdata_jst_go_jp@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · dro deakin edu au | connector:dro_deakin_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare dmu ac uk | connector:figshare_dmu_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · datahub hku hk | connector:datahub_hku_hk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare swinburne edu au | connector:figshare_swinburne_edu_au@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · dayta nwu ac za | connector:dayta_nwu_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · scholardata sun ac za | connector:scholardata_sun_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · researchdata up ac za | connector:researchdata_up_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · researchdata up ac za | connector:researchdata_up_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:life-sciences | mapping · dayta nwu ac za | connector:dayta_nwu_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:materials-science | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:mathematics-statistics | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:psychology-behavioral | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · dayta nwu ac za | connector:dayta_nwu_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · figshare com | connector:figshare_com@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · researchdata up ac za | connector:researchdata_up_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · repository lboro ac uk | connector:repository_lboro_ac_uk@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/rights |
| publication_date | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · zivahub uct ac za | connector:zivahub_uct_ac_za@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |