Awesome Arabic

A curated list of awesome projects, libraries, tools, fonts, and dev/design resources that are trying to enhance/support the Arabic language computational needs and improve its presence on the web.

Programming Languages

C/C++

• libitl2 - A library for Islamic calendar and prayer times.
• [Qt]: ArabicNumberToWord, Convert numbers and amounts from numeric to Arabic words.

Go (Golang)

• goarabic - a Go Lang package for dealing with Arabic text.

Java

• NumberToArabicWords - Arabic numbers to words.
• RemoveTashkeel.java - Removes Arabic diacritics (tashkeel تشكيل) from any file almost instantly.

Javascript

• arabicString - A Javascript library that extends the native String object with methods to help when dealing with Arabic strings for node and the browser.
• Arli - JavaScript tools for an Arabic development.
• bidiweb - Determine the base direction of paragraphs and adjust them accordingly.
• Hijri.js - A tool for Hijri calender (based on Umm al-Qura calculations) in Javascript.
• jsastem - JavaScript Arabic Stemmer.
• moment-hijri - A Hijri calendar (based on Umm al-Qura calculations) plugin for moment.js.
• aln9 - A lightweight markup language designed for Arabic text.

PHP

• Ar-PHP - A set of PHP classes developed to enhance Arabic web applications by providing set of tools includes stem-based searching, translitiration, soundex, Hijri calendar, charset detection and converter, spell numbers, keyboard language, Muslim prayer time, auto-summarization, and more...
• The PHP League Website in Arabic.

Laravel 5.x

• arabicdatetime - Easy and useful tool to get arabic date with arabic characters for laravel 5.1.

Wordpress

• Arabic-Webfonts - WordPress plugin which allow you to add Arabic fonts easily to any theme without coding.

Python

• ar2en - Renames Arabic files and directories into English recursively.
• Arabic-transcription - Transcription (both phonetic and translitteration) algorithm for arabic in its native orthography.
• Arabish - Arabic transliteration in Python. Similar to Yamli.com, Google Ta3reeb, and Microsoft Maren.
• date-extractor - Extracts dates from text in Arabic and other languages
• hijra - Hijri Islamic Calendar utils in python.
• PyArabic - Arabic text tools for Python.
• pyarabicshaping - Port of GNU FriBidi's Arabic shaping to Python.
• pyIslam - Python library to calculate prayer times, hijri date, qiblah direction and more.
• python-arabic-reshaper - Reconstruct Arabic sentences to be used in applications that don't support Arabic.

Ruby

• Manshar - Arabic social publishing platform.

CSS & RTL

CSS frameworks and resources that support RTL layout.

• Bootstrap 2.x & 3.x RTL.
• Bootstrap 3 RTL - RTL Theme for Bootstrap v3.x.
• Foundation 5 - A CSS framework that natively supports RTL layouts.

LESS

• bi-app-less - writing bi-directional stylesheets in less

Fonts

Freely available Arabic Fonts.

• Amiri Font - a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text.
• Flat font - arabic font (Only Regular weight is available for free)..
• Jozoor font - Jozoor arabic font (Only Regular weight is available for free).
• sahl-naskh - A fork of Droid Arabic Naskh font fixing some of the issues in the original font.

Markdown

• Simple Markdown Editor - Write Markdown in Arabic.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with Arabic language text and data.

Arabic text vocalization

• Mishkal - Arabic text vocalization software written in Python, website: http://tahadz.com/mishkal.

Verb conjugation

• Arabic-Conjugator - Conjugates MSA verbs given three root letters, verb form, tense, and pronoun.
• Qutrub - FOSS Arabic verbs conjugator

Spell Checkers

• YaraSpell - simplified Arabic spell checker.

Others

• Arabic NLP - Collection of various Arabic NLP and Text Processing Scripts and Utilities.
• arabic_nlp - Tools to normalise and derive sentiment from Arabic text.
• Minteeq - مِنطيق - Opensource/free Arabic text to speech solution based on eSpeak.
• Python NLTK
• Ruby-based nlp_arabic - A ruby gem that contains Natural Language Processing tools for Arabic.

GIT

• Ar cheat-sheet - Git Cheat Sheet in Arabic.
• ArabicGit - Learn Git in Arabic.
• simple-guide - A simple guide in Arabic to get started using Git.

Dictionaries

• Arabeyes - Arabic Tech dictionary.
• en_ar_dict - English Arabic dictionary written in python and Qt4 (pyside).
• FuzzyArabicDict - a dictionary app that allows you to look up Arabic words in transliteration.
• Nibras - French-Arabic tech terms for students.

Data

Data, databases and content related or useful to Arabic projects.

• LABR - Large Scale Arabic Book Reviews Dataset.
• Large Arabic Resources For Sentiment Analysis.
• Arabic Stop Words - Long list of Arabic stop words combined from different sources.

Awesome content

• ar-python - Learn Python in Arabic.

• Colors Lab - UX/UI philosophy in Arabic.

• Hsoub Academy - Hight quality tutorials about programing, DevOps, UX and Design, Freelancing...

• Hsoub I/O - The Arabic Reddit-like.

• informatic-ar - Arabic content about programming concepts, algorithms, AI ..etc.

• Ruby 3arabi - Learn Ruby in Arabic.

Communities

• LinuxAC - Linux Arabic Community
• iSecur1ty - Arabs Security and Ethical hacking community.

ebooks

• [TODO]

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

• SemVer (Semantic Versioning) specs in Arabic.
• Thawab - Thawab Arabic/Islamic encyclopedia system.

Contributing

Your contributions are welcome, just send me a Pull Request!.