Techniques to Preserve the Integrity of the Electronic Versions of the Nobel Quran

The ability to control data and information through the Internet can be challenging. Preliminary analysis showed that some literal modification may occur to some words of the Quran in the electronic versions that span the Internet. Such small modifications may not be noticed by public audience. The holly book of Quran includes a unique feature in that its worldwide copies are all identically similar. The 114 Suras and all verses and words in them are preserved in the exact form. As such, we designed and evaluated a model and a tool to preserve the integrity of the wording in the Quran through generating a Meta data related to all letters in the Quran preserving the counts and locations. Such data can be used eventually in the same way CRC or hash algorithms are used in security to check the integrity of a disk and its data file where any small change in the data will result in a different hash value. We conducted several experiments to evaluate the different parameters and challenges that can impact the automatic authentication process of Quranic verses based on information retrieval and hashing algorithms.