Figures · places · narrative · revelation periods — the Qur'ān's named landscape
2:255) in the search bar to open the surah at that verse.The Spine is the evidentiary standard. The Qur'ān as it presents itself — surahs, ayāt, roots — is the Atlas's primary text. Claims resting solely on hadith transmission, juristic construction, or ijmāʿ require separate justification; the Qur'ān's own constraints take precedence. Tradition is data, not adjudicator.
The Lenses are interpretive — and labelled as such. Figures, Pairs, Clusters, Archetypes, Periods, Notes: each is a deliberate analytical choice the Atlas has made on top of the Spine, not a claim the corpus makes for itself. Defining "figure" is already a position; defining 14 archetypes is another. The view-crumbs say "Lenses · X" precisely so the user re-reads that distinction every time they land on one. The Suite's other five tools (Logic Engine, Arguments, Rhetoric, Comparator, Lexicon) extend this interpretive layer along other axes — each with its own labelling discipline.
Traditional accretion is flagged. Every figure profile separates Tradition Adds (tafsir, biblical identifications, classical elaborations) from Quranic Characteristics. Hawwāʾ, Qābil, Yam, Ḥajar are tradition, not text.
The critical lens is applied symmetrically. The Comparator ↗ audits both directions: where the Qur'ān corrects prior scripture (12 protection patterns across the prophets), and where the Qur'ān's own statement corrects later Islamic tradition (100 corrections). Same four mechanisms each side: omit, displace, contradict, reframe — applied to the Bible — and contradict, specify, amplify, construct — applied to tradition.
Islam is not a new religion. The Qur'ān is the final revelation in a series — millat Ibrāhīm restored. Every prophet delivered the same dīn (submission to God); the Qur'ān corrects what time distorted.
Tag quality is audit-calibrated. The Verses lens auto-derives ayah-level tags from morphological and lexical patterns; a 40-ayah random-sample audit shows 90% fully correct, 0% false positives, 10% partial. 451 high-priority ayāt have hand-curated overrides (green corner ✓).
Figure-to-ayah mapping is authoritative. All 67 figures in the Figures lens are linked via hand-curated reference ranges, not regex. 1,272 ayāt carry at least one figure; 435 carry multiple.
The Roots tier moved to the Lexicon. Root inventory, lexical families, and the verse-to-roots reverse index now live in the Lexicon ↗. 60 of the 1,651 corpus roots ship with curated meaning, derivations, and signature passages; the remaining 1,591 carry corpus-only data (occurrence count + click-through ayāt to Atlas verses).
What this is not. No hadith data, no tafsir, no concordance, no audio, no translations beyond Saḥīḥ International. Assumes you can read Nöldeke–Schwally phase labels and tolerate technical terminology defined on hover rather than inline.