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+key: quran-sura-verse
+preferred_label: Sura and verse (Qurʾān)
+description: >-
+  Sura and verse (āya) numbering of the Qurʾān, in the Kufan counting that the
+  1924 Cairo edition fixed and that modern citation follows. 114 suras, 6,236
+  verses. Canonical form: two positive integers without leading zeros,
+  separated by a colon.
+# Named capture groups expose `{sura}` and `{verse}` to URL templates, plus the
+# compiler's zero-padded variants (`{sura02}`, `{sura03}`, `{verse02}`, …) and
+# Roman-numeral suras (`{suraRoman}`).
+#
+# No `chapter_sizes:`. It gates one thing only, the cumulative `{verseGlobal}`
+# counter, and only for systems whose capture groups are named `chapter` and
+# `verse`. This system names them `sura` and `verse`, so the field would be
+# inert. The 114 verse counts live on the work, under `references_range`, where
+# they bound the reference set.
+#
+# The separator is a colon, not the dot every other system in this registry
+# uses. `2:255` is how the Qurʾān is cited; a locator may not contain `/`, but
+# a colon is safe end to end.
+locator_regex: '^(?<sura>[1-9]|[1-9][0-9]|10[0-9]|11[0-4]):(?<verse>[1-9][0-9]{0,2})$'
+status: draft
+created: 2026-08-25
+modified: 2026-08-25
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+work:
+  key: quran
+  preferred_label: Qurʾān
+  alternative_labels:
+    - 'Quran'
+    - 'Koran'
+    - 'al-Qurʾān'
+    - 'القرآن'
+  status: draft
+  created: 2026-08-25
+  modified: 2026-08-25
+  # No `creators:`. An anonymous or revealed corpus takes no creator entry; the
+  # absence is the correct CSL signal.
+
+citation_system: quran-sura-verse
+
+mappings:
+  - relation: alternateOf
+    conforms_to: 'https://www.wikidata.org/'
+    identifier: 'https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q428'
+    source: manual-curation
+    status: draft
+    created: 2026-08-25
+    modified: 2026-08-25
+  - relation: isReferencedBy
+    conforms_to: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/'
+    identifier: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran'
+    source: 'wikidata:Q428'
+    status: draft
+    created: 2026-08-25
+    modified: 2026-08-25
+
+resolvers:
+  - provider: Corpus Coranicum
+    edition: 'Druckausgabe des Korans, Kairo 1924 (Ägyptisches Katasteramt, Gizeh)'
+    language: de
+    access: open
+    # No `license:`. The BBAW imprint states "Alle Rechte vorbehalten" and
+    # "Lizensiert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 3.0 Lizenz" in the
+    # same paragraph. That contradiction is not an SPDX identifier, so record
+    # the page and let a reader judge (the BHS precedent in #19).
+    license_url: 'https://corpuscoranicum.de/de/imprint'
+    # The `/print` view of the verse navigator. Checked 2026-08-25 in a browser:
+    # 1:1, 2:255, 18:10, 55:13, 78:1, 112:1 and 114:6 all render "Sure N Vers M"
+    # against the Cairo 1924 print. Controls: 999:999 and 2:9999 both render
+    # "Error 404. The requested resource could not be found", so the view
+    # rejects an out-of-range verse. The `/commentary` view does not, which is
+    # why this resolver uses `/print`.
+    #
+    # Routing is entirely client-side: the server returns byte-identical HTML
+    # for every path under this route, so no automated link check can validate
+    # one of these URLs. Re-check by hand.
+    url: 'https://corpuscoranicum.de/de/verse-navigator/sura/{sura}/verse/{verse}/print'
+    last_checked: '2026-08-25'
+
+# Verse counts per sura, in the Kufan counting. Taken from the Tanzil Quran
+# metadata (https://tanzil.net/res/text/metadata/quran-data.xml, CC BY), which
+# documents sura, juzʾ, rukūʿ and sajda structure. Only the numbering is used.
+# 114 suras, 6,236 verses.
+references_range:
+  - kind: chapter_verse
+    counts:
+      - 7
+      - 286
+      - 200
+      - 176
+      - 120
+      - 165
+      - 206
+      - 75
+      - 129
+      - 109
+      - 123
+      - 111
+      - 43
+      - 52
+      - 99
+      - 128
+      - 111
+      - 110
+      - 98
+      - 135
+      - 112
+      - 78
+      - 118
+      - 64
+      - 77
+      - 227
+      - 93
+      - 88
+      - 69
+      - 60
+      - 34
+      - 30
+      - 73
+      - 54
+      - 45
+      - 83
+      - 182
+      - 88
+      - 75
+      - 85
+      - 54
+      - 53
+      - 89
+      - 59
+      - 37
+      - 35
+      - 38
+      - 29
+      - 18
+      - 45
+      - 60
+      - 49
+      - 62
+      - 55
+      - 78
+      - 96
+      - 29
+      - 22
+      - 24
+      - 13
+      - 14
+      - 11
+      - 11
+      - 18
+      - 12
+      - 12
+      - 30
+      - 52
+      - 52
+      - 44
+      - 28
+      - 28
+      - 20
+      - 56
+      - 40
+      - 31
+      - 50
+      - 40
+      - 46
+      - 42
+      - 29
+      - 19
+      - 36
+      - 25
+      - 22
+      - 17
+      - 19
+      - 26
+      - 30
+      - 20
+      - 15
+      - 21
+      - 11
+      - 8
+      - 8
+      - 19
+      - 5
+      - 8
+      - 8
+      - 11
+      - 11
+      - 8
+      - 3
+      - 9
+      - 5
+      - 4
+      - 7
+      - 3
+      - 6
+      - 3
+      - 5
+      - 4
+      - 5
+      - 6