Mahmoud Kassem

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2026

Quranic Arabic poses important challenges for Arabic NLP due to its distinctive morphology, syntax, and orthography. We present MAQAM, a richly annotated Morphosyntactic Arabic Quranic Analysis and Modeling resource covering the entire Quran, providing 22 lexical, inflectional, and clitic features for every word. The resource is constructed through a semi-automatic pipeline combining feature enrichment, morphological synchronization, and expert manual annotation and validation. We further evaluate Quranic morphosyntactic disambiguation under a realistic setting where the input may be represented in either the Uthmani or Imla’i script, and investigate cross-domain transfer between Quranic Arabic and MSA. Our results show that MSA and Quranic resources are complementary for Quranic disambiguation, with the best performance obtained by combining MSA training data, Quran-specific analyzers, and both script representations, whereas for MSA, only integrating Quranic resources provide modest gains. We make MAQAM publicly available.