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Sources & credits

Tajwid is free and non-commercial. It stands on the work of the people and projects below — may Allah reward them.

Quran text and tajweed

Quran.com (Quran Foundation)
Uthmani text with tajweed markup (text_uthmani_tajweed, based on the Tanzil Uthmani text), word-by-word audio, transliteration and word meanings.
Tanzil.net
The verified Uthmani text the tajweed markup is built on.

Recitations

Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary
Muallim (teaching), Muallim with children, and Murattal.
Mohamed Siddiq al-Minshawi
Murattal.
AbdulBaset AbdulSamad
Mujawwad.
Mishari Rashid al-Afasy
Murattal.
QuranicAudio.com and Quran.com
Audio hosting, ayah timestamps and word timings.

Tajweed references

Al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah — Ibn al-Jazarī
Makhārij and ṣifāt of the letters.
Tuḥfat al-Aṭfāl — Sulaymān al-Jamzūrī
Rules of nūn and mīm sākinah, madd.
Hidāyat al-Qārī — ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ al-Marṣafī
Used to check explanations (not reproduced).

The 3D mouth

Z-Anatomy — the libre 3D atlas of anatomy (Gauthier Kervyn)
Skull, jaw, teeth, palate, throat, larynx and face. CC BY-SA 4.0. Our adapted model (public/models/head.glb) is shared under the same licence.
BodyParts3D — The Database Center for Life Science
The anatomy Z-Anatomy is built on. CC BY-SA 2.1 Japan.
ArtiSynth Models (artisynth.org)
The tongue: the MRI-based “Badin” speaker tongue (Badin et al., GIPSA-lab), BSD-style licence. Copyright the ArtiSynth contributors.
Speech-science research
Tongue positions and smooth, speech-like motion follow published articulatory research — see docs/articulation-research.md.

Fonts

Amiri Quran — Khaled Hosny
SIL Open Font License.
Instrument Serif, Inter, JetBrains Mono, Fredoka
SIL Open Font License, via Google Fonts.

Review status

Lesson text, pronunciation tips and the mouth diagrams were written from the classical references above and are awaiting review by a qualified teacher with ijāzah. Recitation should always be learned and checked with a teacher. Only the riwāyah of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim is covered.